The proposal of the Argentinian director Guillermo Cacace takes place using an intimate and immersive format.

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife opens La Salita, the new theatre programme, with three performances of Gaviota. This work is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play by the Argentinian director Guillermo Cacace. The sessions will take place tomorrow (Friday 11th), Saturday (12th) and Sunday (13th) at 7:30 p.m. The proposal, starring five actresses, will offer an intimate and immersive experience.

In Gaviota, life is portrayed as the abandoned and worm-eaten stage of Chekhov's play beside a lake, whose curtain waves in the wind like the sobbing of the defeated. Masha attempts to assemble the threads of this story of unrequited loves, dreams that shatter upon coming true, and pain that accumulates over the years.

Juan Ignacio Fernández, who wrote this version and the dramaturgy, explains that "understanding Chekhov as the author who can unite the everyday with the sublime, a practically impossible act. I tried to identify in the extensive original work (The Seagull) the tragic part in each of the characters, to concentrate the essential in the scenes and for the passage of time to be incorporated into the cadence and rhythm of the dialogues". As for the process, he continues explaining that "for a play initiated in the pandemic, the virtual rehearsals also affected the playwriting work, during which I finished constructing the version that we are presenting today".

Guillermo Cacace assures that in his latest productions, he has gone through processes that "have to do with a search linked to the fact that the rehearsal never dies, that the premiere does not kill it". "The rehearsal has something of the order of the unresolved, of imperfection, of the everlasting test, of the permitted error, of the unfinished, of giving place to the accident that I understand brings to the making a vital condition that sometimes the performance and its confrontation with the audience try to control", reflects Cacace, for whom this "aesthetic of the rehearsal" in terms of its openness to the audience is also "an ethics of the rehearsal militated in socio-affective alliances".

The actresses leading this proposal (recommended for children over 14) are Clarisa Korovsky, Marcela Guerty, Paula Fernandez MBarak, Muriel Sago and Romina Padoan.

La Salita's programme for high school students continues next week with Don Quixote. Walking Stories, produced by the Mexican theatre companies Teatro de la Rendija and Silkateatro Andante. This text-based work, written for an actress and a world of objects, is based on a selection of texts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote that Roberto Azcorra, Silvia Káter, and Raquel Araujo have adapted.

On 15 and 16 November, La Salita will offer El vendedor de humo (The Smoke Vendor), a one-person show directed and performed by Joan Font, the founder of the theatre company Comediants. The show reviews Mr Font’s personal life and career and marks the company’s 50 years of professional experience.

On 28 and 29 November, the Mexican theatrical troupe Los Colochos will perform their new show Tuta, based on the Shakespearean tragedy Titus Andronicus and interpreted in the setting of a Mexican prison. The staging of the troupe’s new adaptation provides a new and different context for exploring ideas such as territory, violence, cruelty, and vengeance.

La Salita is a newly inaugurated space for interpreting local, national and international performing arts. This new initiative is chiefly focused on text-based theatre. In addition to entertainment for people of all ages, including families and children, La Salita will be used for activities such as artist residencies, training programmes, in-house productions, commissioned works, theatrical readings and drama-research workshops.

Tickets for the shows at La Salita, at a general price of 8 euros, can be purchased at the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 00 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.