Dramaturgo Pascal Rambert
Directed by Alfredo Castro
Written by Pascal Rambert
Based on the translation by Coto Adanez
Discipline: Theater
Duration: 80 minutes
Recommended for: +14
Language: Spanish
What happens when one of the people in a years-old relationship, with whom you have children, memories, unforgettable stories and a sex life that is alive and kicking, decides to end the relationship from one day to the next? This is what La Clausura del Amor is about.
Wherever it is performed, the writer asks that the main characters have the same names as the actor and actress playing them. In this case, Pancho, (Francisco Melo) is a theater director who is waiting for his partner, Daniela (Daniela Lhorente), a renowned actress, to come home so he can tell her that their relationship is over. He goes first, revealing the torment, boredom and indifference that have led him to make this decision. She then responds brilliantly to each of his reasons for this unexpected, one-sided separation.
The performers go through all the usual states and emotions of a painful break-up, from the most heartbreaking to the most absurd, with a dose of humor mixed in for good measure. Sexuality, children, agreements and contracts to the most intimate details of their relationship are all dealt with in this magnificent script.
The play is set on a theater stage and Andrea and Octavio Gana’s Delight Lab is in charge of creating different atmospheres and settings using mobile and atmospheric lighting to quite literally either expose or cast shadows on this couple’s intimacy and emotions. They are two beings under a relentless, bleak spotlight, in a fog, among shadows and secrets. Light or its absence expose the fragility of love, devotion, secrets, instability, decline, passion, a lack of transparency and the nostalgia of two bodies as love disappears.
DIRECTOR
Alfredo Castro
Is a University of Chile arts graduate who specialized in Theater Acting and a theater director, actor, teacher and founder of the La Memoria Theatrical Research Center. He has directed, written and adapted plays for theater, including the following: Trilogía Testimonial (Manzana de Adán, Historia de la Sangre, Los Días ...
DRAMATURGO
Pascal Rambert
This French playwright, director and choreographer wrote La clausura del amor, his most-performed play, in just a few weeks in 2010, based on his own experience of separation. He confesses that he took to writing and created his first company aged 16 because he was frustrated he was not good ...
CAST & CREW
Directed by: Alfredo Castro - Teatro La Memoria | Written by: Pascal Rambert | Based on the translation by: Coto Adanez |Assistant director: Víctor Valenzuela | Cast: Daniela Lhorente and Francisco Melo | Lighting and digital set design: Delight Lab | Music: Miguel Miranda |Producer: Maritza Estrada | Coproduced by: the Teatro a Mil Foundation, Teatro La Memoria.
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