BLACK PARROTS
April 2011
Teatro La Palabra
Santiago, Chile
Produced by
Teatro de Chile
Coproduced byFundación Teatro a Mil
@TeatrodeChile
Black Parrots is a dramatic text of high poetic scope, whose central figure is precisely the images constructed through words. A speaker who refers to himself as "we" has made a decision: to take his own life.
"What finally led us to decide was the realization that staying alive is more complicated than the process of our creation itself... To the question: Was it really necessary to be born? Another question arose, considering the total darkness within our bodies. Then the question remained: Was it really necessary to be born without ever being able to leave the darkness of our living, corrosive, skin-like container?"
What is profoundly radical and beautiful about Loros Negros's proposal is that it is written to be performed in darkness. As if the viewer were actually inside the speaker's darkened body, listening to their voice, or their inner voices debating. It is in response to this decision that the body—as an independent entity—reacts by "attacking" the speaker. We experience—or shall we say, hear—the description of the attack as it occurs within the body.
Loros Negros raises profound philosophical questions regarding the separation of body and mind and the capacity for constructing reality in language. The dark interior of the body appears here as nature that rebels in spasms before a subject trying to determine itself to the point of deciding the moment of its death. Likewise, Loros Negros offers us a theatrical paradox: a play that should not be seen. From this paradox arise endless possibilities for sound, visual, and acting experimentation.
Credits
Dramaturgy
Alejandro Moreno Jashés.
Direction
Manuela Infante.
Cast
Cristián Carvajal.
Alejandro Moreno Jashés.
Direction
Manuela Infante.
Cast
Cristián Carvajal.
Drums
Octavio O'Shee.
Set, Light, and Costume Design
Claudia Yolin.
Octavio O'Shee.
Set, Light, and Costume Design
Claudia Yolin.
Production
Teatro de Chile.
Coproduction
Fundación Teatro a Mil.
Teatro de Chile.
Coproduction
Fundación Teatro a Mil.