GESTAS DEL PAPA UBÚ

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-Author: Raúl Hernández Garrido

-Title: Gestas de Papá Ubú

-Subtitle: Comedy

-Theater Company: "Compañía Ferroviaria de Artes Escénicas"

-Director: Paco Macía (with the colaboration of Isabel Úbeda)

-Distribution: Manuel Hernández, Gema Segura, Mario Esteban, Emma López, Cristian Weidmann & Leticia Ñeco.

-Technical Staff: Ángel Haro, Pascual Peris, Pepe Ferrer, José María Cerdeiriña, Isabel Úbeda, Paco Macía, Germinal Comunicación, Jordi Pla, Marisela Romero, Germán Iborra, Pedro A. Bermejo Luque, José Miguel Linares, Helia Gavaldá, Cía. Ferroviaria S.L.

-Data and place of the representation: November 23rd, 2005; L’altre Espai

Dramatis Personae:

-Papá Ubú: An idiot character who was the "monomonarch" and now is just a beggar with his wife who wants to recover what vefore was of their. It’s idiot, lustful and an ineffable character.

-Mamá Ubú: The wife of Papá Ubú and the lover of Memnon. She is the one who wants to kill Papá Ubú to take the reign with Memnon. It’s smart and hates his husband.

-Memnón: Another idiot character, this time a singer who is lover of Mamá Ubú. He wants to take his career on avantgarde but his voice doesn’t give too much…

-Monomonarch: Friend of Papá Ubú, he’s the one who has to be assassinated. He’s not smart neither a good leader.

-Concience: The concience of Papá Ubú is represented by a big baby in diaplers and he says what he must do, although he doesn’t obey to him.

-Soldier: The unique soldier of the monomonarch’s army. She does everything that the monomonarch says.

-Populace: The people of town represented by three persons that asks for food to Papá Ubú, when he returns to be the monomonarch.

Space:

The play desenvolupes in many different places like the town, the house of Papá Ubú, a battlefield, USA, a fight ring… Although this seems some distants places between it… they have the logic in the plot.

Ilumination:

The place were iluminated by six focus, always giving light to the center of the action, characters, situation, dialogues…

Vestry:

They’re dressing some absurd and light clothes. Some of them characterizes the personality of themselves, like the one of the monomonarch and of the mamá Ubú.

Atrezzo:

Sometimes, they uses things like fences for the people of the town and for themselves, a giant whell of wood, used as toilet and place for hiding, a throne…

Ambience of theater:

The people were in silent and laughing with the jokes of the characters. When the joke ends, the audience remains in silence waiting for the next joke. In some moments of the play, the audience clapped for the quality of the joke..

Personal Opinion:

It was a very funny play, filled with irony, sarcasm and sex. They used actual events to make jokes and for giving essence to it. Good play with very good actuations.