GESTAS DE PAPÁ
UBÚ
TECHNICAL DATA
AUTHOR:
Raúl Hernandez Garrido
TITLE: Gestas de Papá Ubú
THEATRE
COMPANY: Compañía Ferroviaria de Artes Escénicas
DIRECTOR: Paco Maciá
DATE AND PLACE OF THE REPRESENTATION: 9-27 November
CAST
Technical
Stage
design: Ángel Haro
Illumination:
José María Cerdeiriña “CIRU”
Wardrobe:
Pascual Peris
Portrayal:
Isabel Úbeda and Paco Maciá
Sound: Jose Miguel
Linares
Music: Pepe
Ferrer
Photographic:
Jordi Pla
Imagen: Germinal
Comunicación
Production: Helia Gavaldá
Cía Ferroviaria, S.L.
Performers
Papá Ubú ………………………………..Manuel Hernández
Mamá Ubú
……………………………….Gema Segura
Memnón
Monomonarca
Mandamás
Pueblo……………………………………Mario
Esteban
Palotín
Pueblo
Soldado
Juez
Nobles…………………………………….Emma
Lopez/ Eloísa Azorín
Nobles
Palotín
Conciencia
Pueblo…………………………………......Cristian
Weidmann
Tatana
Arqueopterix………………………………Leticia
Ñeco/ Ana belen Linfante
PLOT
The stage is
dark. We can hear music. We can see two panels of wood, as scenery.
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Papá Ubú is
a bad person. He wants to “mierdrandizar” the world. His wife is Mamá Ubú, who
loves Memnon Fauston, the singer. He wants to kill Ubú, and he says to his wife
that she can kill him. Mamá Ubú thinks that if Ubú kills the Monomonarca, then
Ubú will be killed, too. And she convinces Ubú to kill the Monomonarca. Ubú and
the Monomonarca are friends. They are seen the troops parade. Mamá uBú says to
her husband that he should kill him when his soldiers can see him. But Ubú
kills the Monomonarca when there aren’t soldiers over there. The conscience of
Ubú appears. But Ubú kills it. Ubú wants to be a tyrant, as Hitler, Franco… The
common people of the village go to palace to see Ubú. They complain for food,
because they are hungry. Ubú says that the village only needs “mierdra”. Mamá
Ubú and the singer want to have a revolution, and Memnon Fauster is going to be
the leader for the end of Ubú. Ubú condemns the people as nobles, music,
actors, and capitalists… to the death. Ubú knows that his wife and the singer
are together. And he catches the singer and he is condemned, too. Moreover, Ubú
goes to other country to make business. He wants to have the 90 per cent of the
business. The businessman is the
Monomonarca. They go together to
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
In this
play, we can see a lot of characters.
- Papá
Ubú.- is the main
character. He is bald, ugly and short. He wants to “mierdrandizar” the world.
He wears a trouser, a jacket and a short sweater. When he has the power, he
wants to be a tyrant. He detests the common people of the village and all the
people in general. He also treats badly his soldiers. Ubú doesn’t know speak
well. He confuses words (for example he says “endivia” instead of “envidia”; or
“mierdra” instead of “mierda”…). He goes to
-Mamá
Ubú.- is Ubú’s wife. She loves the
singer, Memnon Fauster. For that, she plans that her husband kills the
Monomonarca and like this, he will be condemned. But it doesn’t happen like
this. He wears a red dress. She and the singer declare a revolution against
Ubú. At the end, she goes with Ubú, and she has a baby, who is killed by Ubú,
his father. There is a scene where Mamá shows the boobs.
-Memnon
Fauster.- is the singer, also called “Gran Coloso”. He wants to see Ubú
die. He loves Mamá Ubú. He is the leader of the revolution against Ubú. At the
end, he fights against Ubú and loses.
-Monomonarca.-
is friend of Ubú. He is the ruler. He is killed by Ubú. But after, he sees Ubú
in a foreign country where the Monomonarca is. They go together to make
business, but at the end, the Monomonarca leaves Ubú for a pretty girl in
-Common
people.- they represent the poor village. They go to the palace where Ubú
lives to reclaim food, because they are hungry. But Ubú says no, says that for
the village, he has “mierdra”.
-Soldier.-
is a soldier of Ubú. He protects Ubú. But Ubú treats badly him, he batters him.
-Conscience.-
Is the conscience of Ubú. It appears when Ubú is going to kill the Monomonarca,
and when Ubú is condemned the people. But Ubú ignores it. It wears a nappy and
aviator glasses.
SPACE
The action
occurs in the stage, the characters don’t exit over it. In the stage, we can
see two panels of wood. And then, it appears other different things, which are
the atrezzo.
ILLUMINATION
At the
beginning of the play, all is dark, and then the light appears when characters
appear. In the play, there is a faint light in the majority of scenes, and in
the rest, there are about 15 focuses that illuminate the stage. When characters
disappear to the scene, the light turns off. And when the characters appear in
scene again, the light comes on.
WARDROVE
The clothes
of the characters are very different. The Monomonarca wears a dress that is
similar of a sailor; Ubú wears trousers and a sweater that is short. Mama Ubú
wears a red dress that seems to be torn; Memnon wears black trousers and a
leather jacket; the conscience wears a nappy and aviator glasses… Characters
don’t change clothes in the play.
ATREZZO
We can see
the two panels all the play in the stage, but also a big chair that is the throne
of Ubú (is very simple, big and thin); a big box that is round (that intends to
seem a trap door); a wheelchair, a flag that is similar to the flag of the
U.S.A. (with bars and crosses but in black and white); a microphone and a ring
where take place a fight between Ubú and Memnon; and finally, the big round box
that intends to seem a tunnel.
AUDITORIUM
In the
representation that I saw, there were only seven people. For that, we could hear
very well the play and we could see it in the fifth row. We only applaud at the
end of the play and it was a short applaud.
PERSONAL OPINION
In my
opinion, this play is confusing, because I couldn’t understand what was
happened since the play had finished. But this play is interesting, too,
because the topic is good, and the difficulty is how this topic is pointed. For
that, I recommend this play for adults, and if they pay attention to the
representation, I am sure that they will enjoy a lot.