Neil Simon, for many, is a North American mirror Noël Coward British.
Was Coward, incidentally, reveal Simon in an interview, the main reason for the sudden success of his first book, Come Blow Your Horn , to praise her from a New York columnist at the beginning of the 60s . Then, the two had to correspond and approach. In 1968, after premiere of Plaza Suite , Coward wrote a new entry in his diary, signed with a typical acid humor: “What a great idea to have different parts all taking place in a hotel suite. I wonder how the Neil Simon have remembered it. “The Coward himself, three years before, had opened Suite in Three Keys , ask explores precisely this device.
Plaza Suite at the Teatro Tivoli, Lisbon until 25 October, puts three couples at different stages of their relationship, the visit to the room 719 of the Plaza Hotel in New York. And the speed with which Simon “passes from melodrama to hilarious comedy at a glance,” explains Adriano Luz to PUBLIC, which led the director to want to present this piece for about ten years. “At the time,” he recalls, “Luisa Costa Gomes made the adaptation, but as there was no agreement with the representative of copyright ended up not taking the scene. After these years, the show has come again to me. “And came at the suggestion of Diogo Infante got the proposal to the Production Force. Adriano Luz was then the obvious choice to direct Infante and Alexandra Lencastre (to celebrate 30 years of career) unfolding in the roles of two (not three, but already there we) Couples: not only had already tried to present the play, had not only can the translation of Luísa Costa Gomes, but also outside its staging in 2012, in the same Tivoli Theatre The Kings of Comedy , another text Neil Simon.
There is already much, so that Adriano Luz is delighted with this “commercial author, comprehensive” in which is an exemplary way to “make comedies that people enjoy themselves, but they also identify with the characters, who are always very close to us. ” In the first approach (aborted) to the text, given the predictable three-hour show, Adriano Luz had opted to ask Luísa Costa Gomes to adapt and reduce each of the three acts, completely autonomous. Now decided on a way to shorten the part by reducing from three to two acts creating Neil Simon.
The choice of the two acts of this Plaza Suite so reflects concern to achieve “two representation registers, completely different narrative and dramatic.” Hence we find, first, Infante and Lancaster as a couple to “celebrate” the 24th (or is 23 ?, or they know well) anniversary of a marriage clearly crumbling, falling apart, as the action progresses and work requests They (which include an insinuating secretary) are required to undertake any attempt to salvation; then aged about 15 to 20 years, the same actors turn into “wild ducks” of rapid social ascension, without losing, however, some coarseness with that comment his daughter’s life, about to be married, but locked in the bathroom.
In both acts, love arises worn, helpless victim of the passage of time. Lending him an insight something cynical, Simon makes love die when you try to stay alive, and that is tolerable when it becomes a little thing desenxabida and painless.
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