The actress stars in a Bertolt Brecht classic about the war business that serves as parting at the age of Ernesto Caballero at the head of the CDN
He counts and characters come out as torrents, because Blanca Portillo (Madrid, 1963) is addicted to the scene: «I love, mobilizes and permanently stimulates me», confesses the actress, with that impulse for the work that, said the philosopher Iris Murdoch , grants the theater, more a scene of obsessions than a dream country. The one that now stars in Mother Courage and her children , written by Bertolt Brecht and directed by Ernesto Caballero , teachers of the interrogation, is about a mother who survives the profit of the 30 Years War and is unable to abandon her wagon for the Life of your children. Mad or human?
He has already played an atypical mother in Mary's will . Do you prefer contradictory characters? Those are always the great characters, because they are the most human. None are of a single color and these characters have millions of nuances, contradictions and internal conflicts. How have you prepared Mother Courage? First, attending to the demands of Ernesto [Caballero], putting me at the service of his idea. To take this character forward requires physical, emotional and intellectual effort. But you have to approach with respect and care. I tried not to see any recording to have a clean idea, as if it were a character that has never been interpreted. What can we extract from it for our time? I would like us to consider what our personal contribution is to the good and the terrible of the society we have built. May it serve as a mirror and a source of questions. It is said in the first scene: «Peace means nothing more than relaxation. Only war brings order. Are we unable to not live in conflict? Conflicts are inescapable, but the interesting thing would be that they serve to understand us, resolve them and move forward. The problem is when one perceives that they are interested, that there are those who live well in those conflicts. And neither can we let go of our wagon, as happens to Mother Courage? The car is a metaphor for survival. We each do what we can to keep pulling it. Why do we need to have that long fuse fury? As Courage says, so they don't feel us, so they don't shut us up and keep fighting for what we consider fair. And the courage? So that they do not scare us, so that the fear that paralyzes us is not innocent. Is Bertolt Brecht interested in you as an author? Yes; I interpreted Terror and misery of the Third Reich years ago . It has an analytical look and uses the poetics of the theater to lower us to reality. It appeals to intelligence and not to fantasy; He is interested in human and social contradictions. That makes him an indispensable author. Ernesto Caballero responded in The Cultural that gives him the impression that the theater sector is excessively uniformed ideologically. I also believe that it must be uneven, because the theater is critical in itself. Not forgetting its manager stage: they have merged the Spanish Theater with Matadero again; they give relief to Pimenta, Caballero and Menéndez ... Should we depoliticize cultural management? I believe that managers' capacities should be taken into account and not their ideological tendency. Changes are good. The important thing is that politicians do not undo what has been done to do their thing. Any destruction in the sector is very difficult to recompose. After 35 years of profession, what do you ask of the future? Continue working! I do not ask for more. Do you find it difficult to find characters according to the sum of years as other professors point out? I can not complain. And I think there will always be characters of all ages. I hope they keep appearing. If not, I will look for them. What else are you waiting for this season? There is a series pending broadcast, on TVE, Promises of sand and, from December, I will resume Mrs. Dalloway on tour. On the other hand, I am also happy to be a co-producer of Men who write in small rooms , by Antonio Rojano, which will premiere in October also at the María Guerrero Theater. And next year ... more!DATA OF INTEREST
That? Mother Courage and her children Where? María Guerrero Theater (Tamayo and Baus, 4) When? Until November 17
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