THEATRE

GESTAS DE PAPÁ UBÚ˝

Author: Raúl Hernadez Garrido                                                        

Title and subtitle: Gestas de Papá Ubú                                            

Theatre company: Compañía Ferroviaria de Artes Escenicas             

Director: Paco Maciá                                                                       

Cast: Papá Ubú: Manuel Hernández                                                  

Mamá Ubú: Gema Segura                                                                 

Memnón: Mario Esteban                                              

Monomonarca:     "                                                                           

Mandamás:          "                                                                           

Pueblo:                "                                                                           

Palotín: Emma López / Eloísa Azorín                                                

Soldado:        "                                                                                 

Alto cargo compartido:   "                                                                 

Juez:             "                                                                                 

Nobles:         "                                                                                

Palotín: Cristian Weidmann                                                               

Conciencia:       "                                                                              

Pueblo:             "                                                                             

Bailarina Tatana:       "

Arqueotepterix:          "             

Stage design: Ángel Haro

Wardrobe: Pascual Perís

Illumination: José Ma. Cerdeiriña 

Music: Pepe Ferrer  “ CIRU”

Physical actions, movement and improvisation:  Isabel Úbeda  and Paco Maciá

Image: Germinal Comunicación

Photograph: Jordi Pla

Stage manager: Marisela Romero, Germán Romero and Pedro A. Bermejo Luque

Sound ‘s technician: José Mi. Linares

Ilumination ‘s technician: José Ma. Linares

Executive producer: Helia Gavaldá

Production: Cía Ferroviaria S.L

Performance’s date and place: 24^th November, Theatre “L’ALTRE ESPAI”

“Dramatis personae”: In this play there are many characters but only six are important. Papá Ubú: He is a man. He is about middle age. He is small, fat and he has not hair. He is married with Mamá Ubú. He is disgusting, greedy, avaricious and ambitious. Mamá Ubú: She is a woman. She is also about middle age. She is tall, thin and she has long wavy red hair.  She is married with Papá Ubú but she does not love him, she loves Memnón, she is unfaithful to her husband. Memnón: He is a man. He is also about middle age. He is tall, stuffed and he has long wavy black hair. He is Mamá Ubú’s lover. Monomonarca: He is a man. He is about middle age. He is tall, stuffed and he has long wavy black hair. He is President’s country. He is bad,   tyrannic,  selfish. He is Papá Ubú’s friend. Conciencia: this character is Papá Ubú’s conscience but, Ubú never hears it. This character wears only a diaper and sunglasses. Pueblo: this character is three persons. They are suffering all the atrocities that Monomonarca does, and then Papá Ubú does it.  They are poor and they do not have something to eat.

  Plot: Pápa Ubú and Mamá Ubú lived together. Mamá Ubú was unfaithful to her husband, she had a lover, his name was Memnón. Mamá Ubú wanted to convince his husband about to kill at the Monomonarca, the President’s country. At first, Papá Ubú refused it but, then he did it. In this moment, Papá Ubú was the President’s country. Ubú was evil and tyranic, he wanted money.  Her wife was different, she tried that her husband was not like this. She and her lover thought about steal her husband of presidency. The town’s people were tied, they had not money, and they had anything to eat. However it did not matter at Ubú. Ubú had dirty business, he bought factories in the poor countries to pay less money, in other words, to exploit them. Finally, Ubú knew that her wife was unfaithful, Memnón wanted to be a President so he and Ubú fought.

  Space: the stage was quite decorated, depending that they wanted to perform was decorated with something or without something, there were changes the scenes depending also the place (their house, the river where Monomonarca was killed…) the space was not single.

  The theatre was quite illuminated, there were about eight spotlights, and its lights were of colors, white and sometimes red or something like this.

  Not all the characters were same dressed, Papá and Mamá Ubú had vulgar costumes. And the other characters were more or less well dressed, they had contemporary dressed and the performance was in Spanish, nevertheless, some characters did not speak well, such as Ubú, he always says “mierdra”…

  As I see it, I think that this play is a criticism about the tyrants that nowadays there are. It is absolutely comical and has much irony.