PICA, RATLLA, TRITURA

 

 

 

Author: Roberto Garcia

 

Title: Pica, ratlla, tritura

 

Theatre company: L’horta teatre

 

Director: Roberto Garcia

 

Cast:  Juan Mandli

          Maribel Bravo

 

Artistical and technical staff:

            _Text & director: Roberto Garcia

            _Director assistant &

lights designer:  Juan Pablo Mendiola

_Original music &

Audiovisual design: Juno Son

_Set: Joan Miquel Reig

_Clothes design:  Joan Miquel Reig

_Picture: Patricia Barrachina

_Photos: Vicente Jimenez

_Valencian diction: Magda Casanova

_Sound design: Luis Lopez de Segura

_Light & sound technical: Fabio Viale

_Picture technical: Miquel Paricio

_Clothes: Dobble-t

_Voice record: Tabalet Estudios

_Comunication: Laura Marin

_Executive production: Alfred Picó

 

Place and day of representation: Sunday, 11^th December 2005, in Teatro Talia

 

Dramatis personae

 

            Juan Mandli: This is a character who is a doctor. She has to cure a young girl who is ill. She has a strange illness wich noboydy knows why it’s caused. So, this doctor has to experiment to find out which is the reason of this illness, so can cure this girl. He is a doctor very worried with his patient, he wants to cure and try it making an operation which the end of that is that the girl goes deaf.

            Maribel Bravo: She is a girl who works as telephone operator in a information company. She receive a call from a strange man. This man wants to know a phrase from some film, book o whatever wich he can say to his family before to die because she is a ill who is going to die soon. This man makes feel nervous to this girl. But she, speak to him about life and he thanks her for the chat. At the end, the telephone operator goes to the middle of the stage and the audience can see that she is a handicapped person.

 

 

Space

 The space is an empty set. The only thing is a screen in the middle of the set where some pictures are projected. And behind this screen there is, in the left a desk where is the telephone operator.

 

 

Lights

The lights and shadows in this play is very important. The most part of the play are pictures projected  in the screen and playing with the shadows of the character that they are behind the screen. The shadows of the characters are made because  behind the screen there is a spotlight projected to the screen, so when a character is beetwen the spotlight and screen, his shadow is projected in the screen.

In general the lights used in this play are very dark.

 

Clothes

 The clothes of Juan Mandli, the doctor, are old clothes belong to the earlies years of the XIX century, the most sure. He wears a suit.

The clothes of Maribel Bravo are modern clothes, because this scene happens at present

 

Atrezzo

 In this play the only atrezzo is a desk behind the screen, the screen, and the wheelchair of Maribel  Bravo.

 

Theatre atmosphere

 During the play, a mobile phone rang  two rows before me. And the owner of the mobile talked by mobile in middle of the play. Unbelievable but true.

 

 

Personal opinion

 Well, in my opinion it is a play very difficult to understand, because in this play there are two parts. The first is when the doctor try to curate the young girl. The second is the conversation beetwen the telephone  operator and the man who is going to die. Apparently it is no relation beetween these two parts,  at least I can’t see the relation.

I think that the play is very interesting and funny, the conversation beetween the man and the telephone operator is very funny but it has moments very emotional and sad.

 

The best thing of this play, in my opinion, is the actors. Only two actors, but they are really good. The work of Juan Mandli is fantastic because the play is performed in Valencian and he is an argentinian actor, and he has got to speak valencian without anybody realized that he is not valencian. More and more, he don’s speak with nobody in stage, he makes monologues, and I think that this is more difficult than make dialogues.

Maribel Bravo is a fantastic actress because like Mandli do, she speaks alone, she makes monologues because she is alone on stage. She is all the time speaking to a camera, and she gets to cry in scene which is very difficult for the actors. She gets that the audience be moved.