100 years ago the Austrian Stefan Zweig published a disturbing novel called Letter from a stranger In which, in the form of an epistle, she describes the deep love that a woman has kept for years in silence for a man she idealizes. This story was adapted to the theater by the playwright and director Manuel Orjuela, who now brings her to Ecuador in a show that brings together four local actresses and one international actress.
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This Thursday, October 6, the Sanchez Aguilar Theater premieres the play letter from a stranger with the performances of Viviana Salame, Nicole Rubira, Michelle Zamudio Y Rocio Maruri, and the Colombian actress Patricia Tamayo, who will personify the main character in his different stages: adolescence, youth and adulthood.
“It becomes interesting when it’s done with five voices, who are playing a single woman. Not only that each woman interprets a different era, but also that they accumulate like a matryoshka”, explains the director in a Zoom with this Diary, who says that he was encouraged to adapt this work to the theater after reading it aloud to someone he loved very much.
“We are mixing in some way, which was always a dream of mine, five Latin American voices”, Add.
This theatrical piece has toured several stages since 2005, during which time it has been presented in Mexico, Spain and Colombia, a country where it began as a play that was staged at home in some Colombian houses. The cast is headed by Patricia Tamayo, who during the 17 years of the play has brought this character to life.
“Obviously it is delicious to do this work here, because the work is so beautiful, the text is so beautiful, it is so well adapted”says the Colombian actress, who says that she started playing the woman who writes the letter when she was 32 years old. “I still can’t believe that the character always tells me different things… he talks to me about my femininity, about my relationship with love, about my relationship with men, about how the perspective of many things that happen to me is also changing. says the character, I discover new things in the text”, confesses Tamayo, 49 years old.
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About sharing the scene with four Ecuadorian actresses, he says the following: “It’s very nice to see a character played by five actresses, because each one has her particularity as an actress, but there are choral moments and there are certain physical actions, certain looks and certain things with which voice that unite us with a single character”.
As its name says, letter from a stranger stages the letter that this woman writes to the man she has secretly loved since she was a 13-year-old girl until she is a 32-year-old woman. In this letter she reveals all those feelings that she has kept silent, the times that caused a meeting between the two, and her loyalty through time, to the limit of obsession. “It seems to me that she is a brave woman and that she is very consistent”mentions Tamayo.
The stage of adulthood is addressed by Rocío Maruri and Nicole Rubira. Maruri personifies this 24-year-old woman. “It is precisely this stage of motherhood… which is the beginning of another love, which is as strong as the one this person is living at that moment,” she points out.
“She puts this love of being a mother as her goal. She will always take a backseat, not because she is less important, but because of the love she has for this new child.” adds the actress.
Meanwhile, Rubira plays her at the age of 29, when she rethinks some things in her life and tries to put a stop to that feeling that has consumed her for years. “It is a hurricane, he is with his emotions on the surface. She is a feisty mom. It is the one that keeps the hope of being recognized (…) His only goal, his reason for being, has been him (…) I think that many women have lived a love like this “declares the artist.
Playing this character causes him emotion, he says. “It makes me feel good to be able to express a part of me that not everyone knows”mentions.
While the stage of childhood and adolescence are represented by Viviana Salame and Michelle Zamudio. In other words, Salame is the one who will reveal to the viewers the beginning of this idyllic love. “For me it has been like a challenge to return to my 13-year-old inner child, to return and think if I have lived those loves,” tells the actress who is making her debut in a long play for the first time.
For his part, Zamudio gives life to the 18-year-old woman. “She is the one who discovers herself as a woman, discovers a sexuality (…) who already has a body that they can turn to see, which can already be an object of desire for her great love”, describes the actress.
“She is determined to find the meeting so that he can see her, because she has grown, because she is already a woman who can be seen,” adds.
The play will be presented in the third room of the theater, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at 8:00 p.m., from October 6 to 22. Entry: $25. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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