EL ZOO DE CRISTAL
Header:
-Author: Tennessee Williams
-Title: El Zoo de Cristal
-Subtitle: Tragicomedy in one act
-Theater Company: Cristina Rota S.L.
-Director: Agustín Alezzo
-Distribution: Luis Tosar, Cristina Rota, María Botto & Juan Carlos Vellido.
-Technical Staff: Luis Castro, Jean Pierre Ledos, María Díaz, Alicia Ovando, Teresa Rodrigo, Amanda Rodríguez, Mariano Marín, Felipe Ramos, Ana Garay, Carlos Montalvo, Producciones Teatrales Contemporáneas S.L. y Producciones Cristina Rota S.L.
-Data and place of the representation: December 15th, 2005 on Teatre Principal, Valencia.
Dramatis Personae:
-Tom (Luis Tosar): Tom is an adventurer and risky boy, who wants to be free and far from his family and be on his own, but he loves too much his sister to leave his home. The interpretation of Luis was awesome and very credible.
-Amanda (Cristina Rota): Amanda is the mother of Tom and Laura, who has a husband who abandoned they years ago, although she seems to be angry with Tom, she needs him to keep living. The interpretation of Cristina was the best of the four, she takes all the starring on her and makes a great character.
-Laura (María Botto): Laura is an innocent girl who lives in a cristal zoo world composed by the little cristal figure that her father leaves for her. Laura makes a good interpretation making the audience laugh with her.
-Jim (Juan Carlos Vellido): Jim is a business man, companion of Tom. He goes to dinner to the house of Tom and discovers that Laura was a friend of the college who calls her "Bluerose". The interpretation of Juan Carlos was weak compared to the others but makes a good interpretation too.
Space:
All the play develops in the dining hall of the house of Tom. Is a silent witness of the histories of all the characters and their situations, like the first kiss of Laura and more.
Ilumination:
Principally, they uses two focus. One to illuminate all the dining hall, and another for the porch who keeps secret conversations with some characters.
Vestry:
They wear casual clothes and don’t use exaggerate clothes till the "second part" of the play where Jim arrives, then Amanda and Laura were beautiful and classical clothes
Atrezzo:
In the dining hall there are classical furnishing like a table, chairs, a sofa, a crystal table where the crystal figures rest… all keeping the classical essence of the play.
Ambience of theater:
The audience were listening attentively to all the characters say in the play, and sometimes all laughed with some joke and some statement of Laura or Amelia.
Personal Opinion:
It’s was a good play, although a little boring because I think it has a strange development of the story. But characters like Tom or Amelia where the principal pillars of the work.