2024-05-29 16:26:23
Within the Corrientes city of Carolina, a couple of kilometers from Goya, is the Satan’s Chapel, a small Catholic temple constructed in the beginning of the twentieth century by an Italian who knew how one can generate a fantasy within the area. Freely impressed by that story, the director and creator Guillermo Parodi wrote Mandinga (The Satan’s Chapel)), a piece that presents a robust man who, having requested God for a miracle, realizing that his want won’t be happy, resolves to make a pact with the satan. Round this character, a woman awaits her resurrection, forbidden or snubbed loves are hidden, indecipherable conspiracies occur, and even a city is ready up. Within the work, which below the identical path of Parodi could be seen within the City’s theater (Lavalle 3636), the excellent solid of Julia Funari, Lucía Palacios, Camilo Parodi, Natalia Rey, Marcelo Rodriguez, Lucas Soriano and Lorena Szekely performs.
Born within the metropolis of Corrientes, the director and creator owes his mom, Teresa Parodi, an early strategy to music and his father, from whom he inherited his identify and surname, his style for writing and poetry. Till he was 11, the longer term actor and director lived within the middle of town in a stately home with large adobe partitions, with patios, a cistern and a ceibo. In that space – and likewise within the space of his household – he grew to become accustomed to listening to tales of gualichos and ghosts. “There’s a widespread loss of life cult in Corrientes”says Parodi within the interview with Web page 12.
The Mandinka of the gaucho custom of the work is known as San La Muerte, though not as a protector of the marginalized however as a consultant of the Satan. Parodi already had the overall construction of the play when he completed finding out playwriting with Mauricio Kartum. Shortly afterward he completed writing the piece. Though he let himself be carried away by his personal creativeness, the place to begin was the story of The Satan’s Chapel within the city of Carolina. The creator additionally acknowledges having discovered within the Corrientes poet Francisco Madariaga the phrases to explain the flooding of the river, one of many knowledge that finally ends up composing the panorama that this work written in 2001 crosses.
-The place does your curiosity in engaged on a preferred fantasy come from?
-In my childhood, my grandmothers used to wish quite a bit, they used to burn incense round the home and I even keep in mind that there have been spiritualism periods to which after all they might not let me enter. Between that home and the household area, a mythology very typical of Corrientes surrounded me, an enchanting world with characters like Pombero and San La muerte.
-What’s the Saint Dying that Lorena Szekely performs like?
-That Saint Dying is the king of demons right here, he has plenty of acrobat, a humorous little monkey, additionally one thing feline. He’s a negotiator and he’s additionally a blackmailer. The work reveals the hidden, the sinister, the forbidden. And the abysmal: in that it’s associated to the theater, a big black field that shoots goblins and shadows. Briefly, the work talks about what’s behind every thing, what at all times explodes in some unspecified time in the future.
-The work was written in 2001…
Sure, I wrote it whereas the nation was on fireplace. And now plainly the identical factor is occurring, if not, let us take a look at what is occurring in Misiones.
-In style mobilization can be current within the work…
-The social outbreak occurs as a warning to the highly effective who’re trying the opposite method, involved about points that don’t have anything to do with the folks. The work talks about betrayal, deception and concern. It’s as present immediately because it was in 2001.
-May you specify why?
-When (Alberto) Fernandez ruled, energy was trying the opposite method. And for that purpose, he gained who gained and this hell ended up breaking free. However now, it’s Milei himself who appears to be trying the opposite method. And this means a social outbreak, as a result of all through the historical past of the nation we see that ultimately the folks at all times find yourself demonstrating.
*Mandinga (The Satan’s Chapel), Teatro del Pueblo (Lavalle 3636) Saturdays at 10 p.m.