Subject: # 14227 Teatro Inglés Siglos XIX y XX Grupo A

Title of the play: Nadie es perfecto

Author: Simon Williams

Theatre company: N/A

Play director: Alexander Herold

Actors: Josema Yuste as Leo, Amparo Climent as Alicia, Andrés Resino as Gus, Saida Lamas as Bibi.

Technique cast: Carlos Montesinos (stage design), Cristina Rodríguez (dressing room), Juan José Llorens (lighting).

Leo, a mysogenous economist man, is one of the prototypical man of the current society: facing up problems nobody taught him how to solve. On the other hand, he is lucky enough to have on his side of this common personal war the creativity of finding amusing solutions. However, these solutions can drive oneself to complicated situations, like when he has to travestite himself to obtain the prize of a contest of only female writers, which he has won, and realises that the woman who directs the contest is the person with whom he falls in love, which will drive the play through funny situations with his constantly switching of genders. Alicia is a strong self-confident woman, enough assertive to make Leo feel such shyness that he has to defeat it in order to get nearer to her and get his prize. Gus is Leo’s father, a philandering man cheeky enough to make things ever more confusing, which will lead all them to funny conversations and circumstances, like the conversation held among the four characters by telephon.

The plot of this play is quite hard to explain but easy enough to make its sketches more important than its events. At the play we see a recently divorced, mysogenous man taking care on his own of his philandering father and his daughter. This busy man shelters himself in the creation of little stories, which allow him to gain a feminist contest where only women can participate. The funny part is that the director woman of this contest says she (while he is transvestited) has won because she understands perfectly the women’s mind. Moreover, aside of all this complicated situation, we must add the fact that Leo, the transvestited man, falls in love with this director, helping him to forget his ex-wife.

Finally, we should underline the stage is divided in three parts which never change: Leo’s house, its entrance hall and Alicia’s office, which will let us see simultaneous situations being carried on by different characters, seeing how it evolves in so many ways that makes its crash very comical.

Academic year 2005/2006
© a.r.e.a./Dr. Vicente Forés López
© Pablo Cristóbal Borillo
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Universitat de València Press