Author: Leo Masliah, Diego Braguinsky, Jaime
Pujol
Title: Ornitorrincs
Theatre company: Compañia Ornitorincs & El punt de la i
Director: Miguel Angel Romo
Cast: _Ornitorincs: Carles Sanjaime, Diego
Braguinsky
_Male nurse: Pep Chiveli
Artistical and technical staff:
_Direction: Miguel Angel Romo
_Setting and
lights: Javier
Quintanilla
_Original soundtrack and adaptation: Pep Chiveli, Eduardo
Pertegas
_Director assistant: Lola Molto
_Coreography: Amparo Fernandez
_Technical boss: Joan Falco
_Video execution: Javier Quintanilla
_Musical production:
Eduardo
Pertegas
_Voice song of the ornitorinc: Amparo
Fernandez
_Clothes: Roca 10
_Setting makers: Teatre de l’Ull
_Cartel: El punt de la i
_Executive
production: Diego Braguinsky, Pep Chiveli
_Production: El punto de la i, Escuela del Actor, Teatre de l’Ull
Place and day of
representation:
Friday, 2nd December 2005, in L’Altre Espai
_Ornitorincs: They are two people, very strange
people. They are together but they are very differents. One of them is who have
the control and the other is the silly. The comunication between these two
people is very difficult( it remembers Vladimir and Estragon, in “Waiting for
Godot”). They are, apparently in a hospital, why? We don’t
know.
_Male
nurse: He is other strange person. He appears and disappears of the scenes. He
is who control them, he plays the role of concience of them, and he, apparently
has the control of their lifes, because there is a moment when he threatens them
and say that he is going to switch off.
The space of this play is a hospital room..
There are two screen where an images are projected. There are two hospital beds
and the table of the male nurse, where there is a mobile phone of the male
nurse. Theres’s no change in the setting, it’is always the same
scene.
Lights
The lights
in this play is very simple. There are a general spot, and two spot each one
lights the two parts of the stage, left and right, where the actors are setted.
In general, the play is very dark,
the lights are very low.
Clothes
The play
starts with the ornitorincs dressed with clothes of ills in the hospitals but
they takes off these clothes and they put on a suit.
The male
nurse wears a uniform of nurse.
Atrezzo
The play starts with an images projected in two
screens. During all the play in these screen there will always be projected
images.
There are
two tricycles where the actor are ridden, the table of the male nurse, the
mobile telephone, and a bin. The telephone and the bin, I don’t know what use
have in the play, because the phone rings but the ornitorincs try to pick up but
they can’t. Only the male nurse can. It is very confusing.
Theatre
atmosphere
There were
very few people in the representation, about 15 people. In general during the
play happaens nothing but a woman who was laughing all the time and she
transmited the laughs to the other audience impeding that I could hear well some
parts of the play.
This is a very strange play. It’s very difficult to understand this play because I think that it uses a lot of symbolism that the audience can’t deduce. I don’t like very much this play, excepting some things, it is not a funny comedy. I don’t find it funny, because I think that it is always the same, a couple of characters one of them the stupid and the other one who leads. It’s like Estragon and Vladimir in “Waiting for Godot”, but honestly I prefer the last one.
I could say that this play belongs to the Absurd’s theatre, because there are many things that seems to be nosense, but I’m sure that they mean something. There are strange things, for example I can’t understand the relation between the play and the title of the play.
Although I don’t like this play, it doesn’t mean that I don’t like the work of the actors. I think Carles Sanjaime is a very good actor, I admir a lot this actor, he is a teacher in my Drama school. The other two actors also works well.
I’m still trying to understand the play, but I don’t get it, maybe I don’t like the play for this reason.