SPECIES: the ambiguity of love
In line provocative in their assemblies, the Open Space group released last year Species, dramatized by Sara Joffré and same group, led by Diego La Hoz. Got the audience awards for Best Play, Director and Supporting Actress in Critical blog The Office, for Best Work in the Central Coast Regional Show and is a finalist in the National Show this year. Based on media reports, the staging is documentary, recreating six cases of pedophilia, in order to raise awareness in the viewer on this difficult subject, full of despair, anxiety and fear of those most affected: the children. This ambiguous "love" felt by the perpetrators on the scene is exposed more starkly formal yet (judging by the costumes of the four interpreters), and the work can be considered as the scene of complaint, despite searching, according to the position of the group, only reflections on the public to take the ideological position you want.
By way of an exercise in theater, actors use an item of their clothing (bags, sunglasses, scarves) to characterize the victims and perpetrators of each case and then address the public to clarify any details or give any information relevant, always reminding us that the abuses and crimes committed were real. Very recognizable Joffré Sara pen in the work. Clean work of Omar Del Aguila, Betzabeth Misme, Jonathan Oliveros and Joseph Palomino, very precise in its implementation stage. The director Diego La Hoz assembly achieves strong and fluid, with some touches of humor, grateful, focusing on the performance of the actors, who use only four seats and four newspapers to create environments and define spaces. Species not betray the group's online Clearance and confirms one of the most exciting theater groups in the middle.
Perhaps the only objection might be made to work, is background rather than form: understanding pedophilia as an "outsider" type of love (as stated in the playbill) is very difficult even consider, as this sexual disorder deserves the unanimous rejection by the viewer. Of course, the meaning of love is "all the feelings that bind one person to another, and these feelings may not necessarily be good, but the word itself inevitably results in a pure and clean connotation, completely lacking in staging. And that is the position of the group about pedophilia is clear and convincing, especially when the actors are directed to the public within the same assembly, showing the annoyance on their faces and gestures to explain the scenes. It is (still) very difficult to find "love" in Species , named just to consider childhood pristine and unblemished as an endangered species.
Sergio Velarde
February 18, 2011
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