Drama
Event
“Drama” resumes Victor Hugo Pontes' research on the limits of word and movement, theatre and dance. This new creation is based on Pirandello's canonical plot “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” a theatre rehearsal is suddenly interrupted by six characters asking the company’s director to stage their lives. In an attempt to rescue that meta-narrative, one tries to broaden the discussion about the creative act itself: to what extent is it possible to choreograph classical plays (which assumptions hold, and which get lost)? In what way can the rehearsal room itself mirror what does not happen on stage but only in the creator's mind? Resorting to multiple characters, consecutive attempts and choreographers directing other choreographers, this piece causes chain actions that place the one watching in the seat of the one being observed, and vice versa. Just like in Pirandello, “Drama” refers to the beginnings of the theatrical game: drama, that is, the narrative form in which the one imitates the direct actions of people.
