Author: Christopher
Durang
Title: Terapias
Theatre company: La Pavana
Director: Rafa Calatayud
Cast: _Pruden: Marta Belenguer
_Oscar: Sergio Caballero
_Dr. Martone: Rafael Calatayud
_Dra. Bornikoff: Mamen Garcia
_Teo: Juli Disla
_Andi: Toni Agusti
Artistical and technical
staff:
_Version:
Juli Disla
_Direction: Rafael calatayud
_Director assistant: Carlos Calvo
_Set space: Rafael
Calatayud
_Lights design: Jose M. Marquez y Rafael calatayud
_Clothes: Rocio
Cabedo
_Musical solutions: Albert
Sanz
_Letters: Mamen Garcia
_Carpentry: Fet
d’encarrec
_Painting: Nicolai
Stefanov
_Clothes design: Vicenta Marco, teresa and Emi
Baviera
_Lights: Jose Martin Marquez/Sergio
Vega
_Sound: Javier Vega
_Transport: Transjoma
_Production: Jose Alberto Fuentes/Mayte
Barbazan
_Distribution: Marta
Banyuls
_Administration: Xavier
Diaz
Place and day of
representation:
Saturday, 7th January 2006, in
Teatro Talia
Dramatis
personae
_Pruden: She wants to find a man. So she meets with
Oscar by chat. She always look for the lacks of he people, so she never gets the
perfect man. She doesn’t like that the men weep. She goes to a psychoanalyst,
Dr. Martone. When she meets Teo, the boyfriend of Oscar, they don’t get on well.
She is a very weak person, but she tries to appear that she isn’t.
_Oscar: He is bisexual. He meets with a girl, Pruden,
in a restaurant by means of a chat. He is very sensitive and he weeps very
often, but he doesn’t mind that people see him crying, he is proud of showing
his feelings. He goes to a therapy and his psychoanalyst helps him with his
troubles. He falls in love with Pruden.
_Dr.
Martone: He is
the psychoanalyst of Pruden. He tries to make the love with Pruden all the time.
He is obsessed with her. He usually sleeps with his patients, but he has a
problem, he is a premature ejaculater, and when the women tell it to him he gets
angry. He is very sarcastic.
_Dra.
Bornikof: She
is a crazy psychoanalyst. She is the Oscar’s psychoanalyst. She has two
problems: she has a very bad memory, and she never find the exactly word for
what she wants mean. She always make the therapy with a small
doll.
_Teo:
He is gay. He
is the couple of Oscar. They live together. He has jelousy of Pruden, because he
wants Oscar for him, only for fim, so he tries to make that Pruden don’t have
dinner with Oscar and discuss with Pruden. At the end he has to go to the psycho
analyst of Oscar because he wants to kill himself.
_Andi: A very strange character. He hasn’t hardly dialogue. He is the waiter of the
restaurant. He will become in the end in the couple of Teo. He was in a borstal
when she was younger.
The space represented is a triple space
in just one. The spaces are a restaurant, the Oscar’s flat, and the therapy
rooms. There is a bar at bottom of the stage, and a lot of chairs and sofas all of them have a
modern design and they are made of leather. In front of the bar there is a table
and beside it there is another one smaller. In the front part of the stage there
are a sofa in the left and in the right there is a sofa with a little table with
magazines and a telephone. It’s space very loaded, there is no empty space in
the stage. It’s a set very colouring, the sofas are made of strong colour. Also
there are two light poster wich it’s written “restaurant” and “apartment”, and
they are lighted depend on where the scene is.
There is a
spot that light all the stage and after there is differents spots that light
differents parts of the stage. The lights of the bottom are blue, and the rest
there are white lights, but also orange. The most of the time there is only
lighted the part of the stage where the actors are, and the rest is in half
light. There is two lamps which take part in the set design, they are switched
on. There are dark lights to show that the time has gone.
The characters wear contemporary clothes. There
are changes of clothes during the play. At first, Pruden, when she has met when
Oscar by first time, she wears elegant clothes, but later when she goes to have
dinner with him she wears a ridiculous dress. The same happens with the dra.
Bornikoff when she is with talking with Teo, she wears a
ridiculous dress. The clothes of the waiter when he is not working are informal.
The clothes of Oscar, Estefano, and Teo are formal
clothes.
Atrezzo
In this play, we see a lot of atrezzo. There
are chairs, tables, lamps, a bar, sofas, and a little table beside one of the
sofas, where above it there is a telephone. Each character has his own atrezzo.
For example, the waiter, Andi, has a helmet; Dra. Bornikoff has a small dolly of
Peggy, from “los teleñecos”; Dr. Martone has always a folder,
etc.
This play is very funny comedy. So, all the
time the audience is laughing. Also was a moment when the audience was
frightened because Teo shoot a pistol and nobody hopes to hear a
shoot.
During the performance we could hear
fireworks outside the theatre, and in the box beside us there were some people
who was eating during the performance.
Personal
opinion
This is a very funny play, one of the
better I’ve ever seen. The text is nothing bored, is very funny since the play
starts until the plays ends. I like the dressed stage and the colouring of the
setting, it makes the play interesting, it pickes up the atention of the
audience.
The best of this play are the actors, all of
them well-known in Valencia. Marta Belenguer is a great actress who last year
was in the Oscars because the short film wich she was the starring was
nominated, and she has appeared in the serial “Aqui no hay quien viva” playing a
role perfectly. I like her very much. Mamen Garcia I had heard about her but I
never had seen her, and she is a very good actress, very funny. And the resto of
actors are very good too.
Although the play is long enough, it last
around two hours, it isn’t bored, because you are all the time laughing, and the
audience don’t want that the play ends.
It is a play which I recommend to
see.