Text & direction: Mariano Pensotti / With: Horacio Acosta, Alejandra Flechner, Rami Fadel Khalaf, Susana Pampin, Pablo Seijo, Diego Velázquez und Julián Rodríguez Rona (Musiker) / Set & costume design: Mariana Tirantte / Music: Diego Vainer / Lights: David Seldes / Sound: Erensto Fara / Video: Martin Borini, Jose Jimenez / Direction assistance: Juan Francisco Reato / Dramaturge: Aljoscha Begrich / Artistic production: Florencia Wasser
Mariano Pensotti / Grupo Marea
La Obra / Das Stück
- Theatre
French /
With German and English surtitles /
Spanish /
approx. 95 mins.
Whether it be unique lives, or deeply-embedded stories, Mariano Pensotti has a gift for storytelling. “La Obra” tells the story of Simon Frank, a Polish Jew who escaped from the Nazi camps before settling in a remote village in Argentina in the early 1960s. One day, he starts a strange project: he rebuilds his home – not to move in, but as the starting point for a theatre play to re-enact his former life. The scenography extents all around the house, to become the streets of Warsaw, and the villagers, initially spectators, begin to take part in the shows as performers. The play is a great success. Until, one day, all is revealed: Simon Frank is not who he pretends to be. What can be done with this story? Make a play out of it, of course. A piece within a piece is created. The audience is transported by a spe(cta)cular, vertiginous staging, to the extent that it has great difficulty in unravelling the true from the false.
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
Production: Grupo Marea. Co-production: Wiener Festwochen, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Festival d’ Automne à Paris, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa. Kooperation: Grand Theatre Groningen. Part of “DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN” by Fonds Darstellende Künste in cooperation with Goethe-Institut, HAU Hebbel am Ufer. In co-operation with the diverse landscape of the independent performing arts, with festivals, interest groups and production houses. Funded by: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
Location
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