Judith. Enemies as before – iOnline

They do not make enemies as before. People for whom we all, people who want to have in our attic, people that hate aside, respect. Today hatred is social networking, it is rather a dislike because you make posts to your mother on Women’s Day. Impossible thing to happen in Judith time (Ana Guiomar), the heroine who entered the camp of a powerful army with the order to behead their leader, beardless and execrable Holofernes (James Vieira). And do not think that the failure to secure with the lack of internet at this time come that the Bible declares us. None of that. What here recovers is the attitude, the sneer of being, in addition to a screen, a real revolt that takes an honest woman digirir to the lair of the wolf, or the home of the man who hates most, to approach the even and in order to complete it with life. “Judith,” Rui Catalan, is on stage at the National Theatre until March 27.

 
 

Project born lame. Not for lack of legs to walk, but because Rui Catalan normally do not write parts. “Tiago Rodrigues, when invited me, was interested in creating repertoire and I do not usually work well. The writing process takes place throughout the creation of the part. This time he knew that before he made the piece had to have a word, “explains the director. Something that made him recover “Esther”, ask where it debuted in writing for a younger audience. After “even with the hot hand” he wrote “Judith”.

 
 

On stage, a set of distances between Judith Beheading Holofernes, wine glass always full, a wanna suspicious that always returns to the question: “Why did you come to meet me,” says Holofernes. A seduction that never understand exactly where it goes Judith, how many offensive blankets between the woman will bear. “I think Judith discovers a little this strange process of approaching the other. When we approach someone to overthrow the power, we have the know, from that moment, understanding, started to like it. And this is particularly strange if you definires the match that it is an enemy to you. It was this perverse game that seduction that interested me explore “fits Catalan.

 
 

The same it claims to be, always, Bible reader. essential object of this game “Judith”. “The literary heritage of Western culture begins there. In a way there are the origins of Western and Christian thought. I am very interested in the female, and when I say I do not mean women, I mean women, even for a man. Women of the Bible, for what we understand as characters have almost nothing, are superficial and so interesting to explore, “says the artist.

 
 

Catalan is not without reference to Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi, she who took life painting Judith as a way to cast out demons, always with an autobiographical perspective: “I found it very interesting that someone, many centuries before me, had, obviously with other values, with less freedom, found a strategy to do what I do, with their differences, of course, without this there would be Judith. “