Matías Daporta, director of the play Author: Sandra Alonso
Galician Matías Daporta seeks a protagonist in Escenas do Cambio for the trilogy that never was: after Dogville and manderleythe Danish director fell into a crisis and got rid of the script
In the production company Zentropa there is no talk Washington. They haven’t spoken since Danish director Lars von Trier had a crisis and destroyed the script for what was supposed to be the closing of his trilogy about human frailty, which ended abruptly, with Grace (played by Nicole Kidman in Dogville and Bryce Dallas Howard in manderley) running away. Not knowing where. Not knowing why.
The script, however, exists. At least one scenario, one Washington an alternative to Galician matias daporta he wrote out of collective speculation about what and where this last film that never got made might be set. He wrote a movie (actually, a movie), but he needs mercy. That’s right, this Friday (5:30 p.m.), at Scenes of changethe third casting will be launched to select the main actress of the ghost film.
It is Washington. Drain. Real. Test for three professional actresses Alejandra Alaff and Daniela Jacques. «I didn’t want to make a show where the directors were aggressive and the actresses were angry.». And in Caasting they have an approximation “I am a feminist for this whole process, which is very violent because you have many expectations, and at the same time you know that there are many people betting on that role…”. Therefore, it is essential that the candidates feel comfortable.
Three actresses (María Roja, Sara Laya and Alicia Casas) will face the same scene, but differently. Different contexts, but the same. All oppressive, like the plot that follows Lars von Trier in Dogville and manderley: Grace arrives in a repressive, isolated place. IN Dogville, It’s a disconnected city. IN manderleya farm away from the world. “Several things that need to be formulated in order to finish the trilogy and look for repressive contexts”.
In this casting, the scene is the same, but different: the psychiatric hospital turns into a prison, and the chief turns into the director of psychiatry. “The scene serves the same purpose, because it is the same regime of terror and repression: people imprisoned with a superior entity that has all the power over their bodies».
The movie from which Lars von Trier he didn’t want to speak again so it serves as a mirror game. IN Dogville, the theatrical device was taken to the cinema. Now, Daporta works performance cinema. AND Washington It also serves as an excuse to talk about very contemporary topics: slavery, xenophobia, the impossibility of integrating different people and building a democratic and deeply unequal system.
The script is still open, and in this constant process of writing, many themes have surfaced, such as the influence of religion and politics. Like that of mental health and the way the United States exported the macropsychiatry model in the 1930s, which still has its echoes today.
And also how this macro, elephant model is applied in the prison system of the United States, which has one of the largest prison populations and is also racist, because a large proportion of the inmates are black.
Washington it is a casting that throws small pills of thinking about the current world, and at the same time it is a mediation process, because it allows actresses from the local area to get to know each other. And it fits perfectly with Matías Daporta’s line of research, which uses cinematography to create new scenic devices. It is theater, but not the conventional one, because the project is a collective process: first, writing the script. Then, the process of casting.
Because in reality, every one of the viewers attending the audition this Friday, from which the new Grace could emerge as a new one WashingtonThey will be the judges. They don’t vote, they don’t choose, but they will surely internally choose the actress they like the most. Enriching the stage experience is another task Washington, which delves into cinematic mechanics to find art in the process, offering a unique opportunity to witness something that usually takes place behind closed doors. And generate conversations outside the stage space.
The public is the judge in its privacy, but also the screenwriter. Because the audition scenes in search of the new Grace drive as many movies as viewers come to the performance designed by Daporta. AND Washington an individual who comes to arouse reflection about his own desires and curiosity about the work of others.
“They should ban the cancellation of series”. If you start, you have to finish. Because, Washington it’s also a reconciliation with the unfinished trilogy, with that 16-year-old teenager first facing Dogville. With the experience of Matías Daporta with Dogville and manderley. “The public has been speculating for 20 years”. Grace has been running away for 20 years without knowing where.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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