Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Festivales de Buenos Aires

Paraná Porá

Play Information

Original Title Paraná Porá
English Title Paraná Porá
Director Maruja Bustamante
Country  
Year 2010
Lenght 50 min

Cast

  • Monina Bonelli, Valeria Lois. En el arpa: Sonia Álvarez

Datasheet

  • AUTOR DE LA OBRA: Maruja Bustamante
  • DIRECTOR DE LA OBRA: Maruja Bustamante
  • DIRECTOR DE ACTORES: María Urtubey
  • MÚSICA: Sonia Álvarez
  • DISEÑO DE ILUMINACIÓN: Javier Casielles y Maruja Bustamante
  • DISEÑO DE ESCENOGRAFÍA: a77 (Gustavo Dieguez y Lucas Gilardi)
  • DISEÑO DE VESTUARIO: Candelaria Aaset
  • ASISTENTE ARTÍSTICO: Gael Policano Rossi
  • ASISTENTE TÉCNICO: Nicolás Capeluto
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Monina Bonelli

Description

Midway between local realism and science fiction, a harp melody sounds on stage; Paraná Porá recreates an enchanting atmosphere and tells a story of two women from the province of Corrientes, sailing the river Paraná on a boat to save their lives after the Earth shores got frozen and the only hope left remains up on the mountains. On their way to Córdoba, “The Foreigner” and “The Polish Woman” –a school teacher and a deli shopkeeper respectively– wear torn dresses and carry two spears, a compass and paddles to fight for their lives and outlive present and past torments. Both women have shared a man and one of them bears his baby. Along the journey they face real, emotional and fantastic obstacles. They are naïve, poorly fed and alone in the world; they only have their memories and resentments, which are of no use at all. Maruja Bustamante’s imaginary tragicomic future as emerging from her dreams enables the author to display unusual sounds: a theater full of local accents not dealing with any overwhelming urbanite theme which conveys decentralized spiritual portrays of other country regions.

*The Paraná is one of the largest rivers of the area. “Porá” in Guaraní (native language of the area) means “beloved, yearned for or beautiful”. With the same phonemes but different accentuation, “Pora” means “ghost” in this native language.

Photo: Marcos Lopez

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Schedule

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