Real emotions
Once upon a time
there was a deep drama created with no easy tears. The audience had no violins
on the horizon emphasizing the supposed hardest scenes, so they were all alone
in front the intensity of the play and the performers. I’m talking about the
play Litus written and directed by
Marta Buchaca and presented at Teatre Lliure in Barcelona.
Litus is about the life experience. That can sound too general, or maybe too
obvious, but we all can agree on the idea that life is anything but simple, so
it is not easy to express that complexity on a play without falling on the
common lands and use them in order to catch the attention of the audience. It’s
always easier to tell the audience what they want to hear, that is their actual
beliefs, than put them in front a raw mirror. And that raw mirror is the idea
that life is something we must experience. Everything has its good side and the
bad one but finally even in the dark side of our personal moon we can find the
answer to carry on with new wishes. Litus
is about the bright and the dark side, life and death and how the last one,
when it happens to someone we love, can change all our priorities. Time goes by
and it’s our duty to live our emotions every moment of the day with no
deception because life is not a business and love is all we have.
The magnificent
work of the cast formed by Sara Espígul, Borja Espinosa, Josep Sobrevals, Sergi
Torrecilla and David Verdaguer, makes you think that all you are seeing and
listening is real so the stage disappear and Litus finally becomes a part of your own life.
LITUS videos here
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Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Photo by Roser Blanch courtesy of Teatre Lliure. © Roser Blanch
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