'Ensayo sobre la Ceguera', season in Àtic 22.
- Iggy Planas
- Jul 15, 2018
- 4 min read
Yesterday evening we finished our season performing 'Ensayo sobre la Ceguera' (Blindness) in Teatre Tantarantana's Àtic 22. It's been several intense days under the spotlights in Tantarantana's attic where we've worked hard to transmit audiences an immersive theatre experience which they can enjoy and save a permeable memory about this adventure through José Saramago's novel.
What is this play about?
An incomprehensible blindness plage blights the city, and the first patients are promptly isolated in an abandoned installation while the pertinent measures are taken in order to understand the disease and bring some response. Contention is needed, civilization must prevail at all means. But, what happens with all those first patients? Who will help a blinded person if the condition itself was contagious? Is it all permitted to protect the rest of humanity, even abandoning to their own fate? Live first hand the pandemic, feel the horror of seeing how human beings lose, minute after minute, all kinds of decency, of empathy. Such an opportunity to take part on the acclaimed novel by José Saramago in an immersive theatre approach by La Coquera.
Poster of the play
It's been two weeks performing where we gave the best of us on each show, being able to work in rapport and with a Swiss clock's efficiency. Personally, I think all this effort has been rewarded by the audience, who in five of the eight days performing there, they filled the theatre's capacity, and it sometimes overbooked it, but we knew how to take that into profit, charging ourselves with more energy and pulling all the stops. The best reward was to see their faces after the show, faces that couldn't be explained with words but which demonstrate and transmit that they had entered into our singular 'game' being able to play with us and take profit of this game with a good memory to take back home and think. The fact of transmitting a message to make people think is one of the best sensations in this career!
Hanging 'Sold out tickets' billboard during several days in our season.
A million thanks to all the audience who came during these days, the fact of seeing a full hall is such a challenge for us, but it's also an incentive to improve. Thank you very much for taking part of this immersive theatre play and for adding your grain of sand to this story we tell you. I want to thank specially to my mother and sister for taking a space of their agendas and a flight to Barcelona to come and watch the play, the fact of receiving your critiques and opinions, besides the first comment I received from them was "Your character is a bastard", helps me to grow day after day on stage and to know that I have your support in my actor's career. Words are little to thank you for these gestures!
On the other hand, I also want to acknowledge the critiques and recommendations about this play by the audience and specialized media, thanks to them, we probably have achieved that this play arrives to more people willing to enjoy itself with your comments and references. Here I mention only a few critiques and recommendations written about 'Ensayo sobre la Ceguera' (Blindness) during these days, click on them to read and enjoy them:
A million thanks to the rest of my co-starts for knowing how to cope with the circumstances (which were not a few) day after day in order to make the show go on; a special mention to Lluis Arruga, our most recent incorporation. After several days working together a comradeship feeling has been created and in some way we had been like a family where some of us took care from others, in fact I felt so supported and cared in one of the performances where my voice suffered from some aphonia and I received millions of advices back and also peppermints to clear my voice. Working in these conditions is always wonderful! A million and one thanks for all, fellas, I'm counting the days to see you again on stage to carry on this play once again!
Some pictures of the play
Special thanks also to Alberto Rizzo, director, to Nacho Martí and Marc López, our light and sound technicians respectively, for their invaluable advices, their help and for looking of this play's suitable functioning off. It's such a pleasure to count on you and your support when making 'Ensayo sobre la Ceguera' a magical experience!
I also want to acknowledge Teatre Tantarantana's staff members because, although the inconveniences or incidents we may have caused them, they had made us feel at ease, like the attic itself was kind of a second house, and that is something to take consideration of. Thank you so much for all the help given and your trust in this project; we expect to have coped with your expectations of what you were looking for, and we hope to come back soon, if not with 'Ensayo sobre la Ceguera', with other play in La Coquera Teatro. Thank you very much!
With yesterday's gig, 'Ensayo sobre la Ceguera' closes its cycle of performances in Àtic 22, and we start well-deserved holidays with the safety that this play feels attractive for different audiences, and it's capable to face other productions with more resources. From now on, we run down the curtain, but stay tuned, we promise to come back with more dates and performances soon. If you want to get informed, follow La Coquera's social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. With nothing else to say, see you in the next post!
Full cast and the director after the last show
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