"yerma, an andalusian kabuki story"
Lorca's work moves from deep Andalusia to feudal Japan in the Felipe VI Auditorium, in "YERMA, an Andalusian kabuki story"
The show can be enjoyed in Estepona on Friday, February 10, at 9:00 p.m., under the artistic direction of Jesús García Amezcua.
The Estepona City Council informs that the Entresueños Company will present the work "YERMA, an Andalusian Kabuki History" in the Felipe VI Auditorium, next Friday, February 10, at 9:00 p.m.
An adaptation by Jesús García Amezcua that respects the original text, Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, but which takes it from deep Andalusia to feudal Japan, demonstrating the universality of the text by the playwright from Granada, as well as the ancestry and durability of the themes that are dealt with on the job.
"Yerma, an Andalusian kabuki story", fuses the Andalusian spirit with the Japanese, paying homage to both cultures from the deepest and most deeply rooted feeling, remembering, like the poet, that destiny is inherent to the human being and that destiny does not belong to any culture or place in particular, if not to the human being, itself.
Juan and Yerma get married, but after many attempts they cannot have children. This leads to a situation of anguish between the couple and rumors in the social environment. Little by little the situation becomes more untenable, Yerma trying by all means to get pregnant, leading her to an obsessive-compulsive state.
In this adaptation, Amezcua, in addition to transferring the action to feudal Japan, includes a musical line through ancestral percussion rhythms, the drum directs the rhythms, the author's songs and poems are balanced in pentatonic bars, the butu dance opens and the work closes in that continuous struggle of the human being between life and death, the choreographies pay homage to Japanese culture without wanting to imitate them and without leaving Andalusian culture aside.
On the other hand, aspects of the kabuki theater and the Greek scene are worked on, with various characters being the actors. The use of masks is fundamental, both for their symbology and for the source of development of the work. The masks and the sound rhythms show us the loss of the identity of the people, the mass as a mask, the choirs in off and on stage question the viewer so that they wonder how much fault each one has in the social group, in the direction that take the personal destiny of each one. "The people. Always the people", but each individual is part of "the people"
Tickets are on sale at www.tafestepona.com, Agencia López (Estepona) and at the Auditorium box office on the day of the performance, from two hours before the start.