Anthony Blake: "We have been defenestrated, placed in a corner"

Theater

Mentalist Anthony Blake premieres his show 'Yes!

It makes sense "at the Reina Victoria Theater in Madrid.

The famous mentalist presents at the Reina Victoria Theater in Madrid 'Sí!

It makes sense ', a show in which he delves into the hidden powers of the human being.

"We have capabilities that we do not know because nobody has ever taught us to use them," he says.

The presentation of the 2020/2021 season by Grupo Pentación, the company responsible for the Bellas Artes, La Latina and Reina Victoria theaters, brought together a good number of titans from the homeland scene.

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coincided on stage, but much of the attention was directed at him, José Luis González-Panizo (Oviedo, 1959), popularly known as

.

Dressed rigorously in black, his transparent mask gave him a touch of distinction, a demeanor that does not change one iota during the performance of

(Teatro Reina Victoria in Madrid, from September 30 to October 18), a show that delves into our hidden potential.

How was your return to the stage after the state of alarm? It has been exciting.

Someone had to break ranks, get serious, say "we can all".

And so it has been, I have thrown myself into the noise and we are having incredible success.

The theater is filling up.

And also, we have all the security conditions.

Culture is safe.

And it has been showing.

There is no case of contagion in any cultural event in this country.

We have had a very crowded Mérida Festival and there has been no problem.

We have had a lot of theaters and there has been no problem.

When the audience arrives, they will take their temperature, wash their shoes, put on hydroalcoholic gel ... Do the new safety regulations change the development of the show a lot? Right now we are at that moment that you want to run and not stop and you You ask "who sent me to get into this garden? [laughs]. But later, if you don't think about it in this garden, you have a seizure. What happened during confinement. For those of us who dedicate ourselves to this has been hard. I had the show organized to debut in May. And then I had a break in the middle of the play where I would send the audience to do things, to do it while they were going to the bathroom or whatever. a certain number of things that were then resolved in the second part of the performance. Obviously, that had to be removed because you cannot cause more contacts between people beyond what is necessary. People are being very orderly and polite:

They come to the theater with time, wear a mask, keep their distances, respect shifts, enter quietly ... The guidelines have changed.

Within the script we have had to include phrases such as "go on stage and don't forget to wash your hands, don't get too close, get away a little, etc".

They are things that until now were unthinkable, like an absurdity.

It was like getting to someone on stage and asking someone if they had peed before leaving home. How are you in the mood for this 'new normal'? I'm excited no, the following.

I am not exactly a person who leaves my house a lot.

I am very homely and I have an office where I lock myself up to read, and read, and read ... And to study and rehearse.

Hours and days pass me by.

But I've always had that advantage also that one, two, three days a week, from Friday to Sunday, went out every weekend the

or

correspondent.

It had themes with companies, with theaters ... And all that disappeared.

So you spend a lot more time rehearsals and reshaping the show.

But there is a moment when everything goes uphill and you exclaim "My God of my life!".

And I am fortunate because I have, or had, some savings and from that I have been able to survive with my family and move on.

but there are many colleagues, musicians, technicians, who have not had that luck.

The thing about the technicians is blood.

At this level of work, the savings they may have are very short.

Nor are they people who have wonderful salaries.

Yes, very worthy, and it gives them to save a little.

But how long can it last?

One month, two months, at most three?

And then the whole issue of the Ertes.

Those who got paid, those who didn't ... Unfortunately, there is a mess in the art world.

We are still the comedians of the language.

We continue to be part of that expendable world, like the hospitality industry, another sector that is suffering all the attacks of this history.

Like it or not, the first thing you do without is going to the cinema, the theater, the bar or the restaurant.

And yet we are 3% of the GDP of this country.

And yet we have been defenestrated, placed in a corner.

That's why when I spoke with Pentación and they said "hey, do you dare to release?"

All that stored anger came out of me and I said "what if I dare? Of course I dare! Gentlemen, life goes on, culture is safe! Come to the theater."

We have been concerned, perhaps more, with the security elements of all the spectators than of the show itself.

Well, it's not like that ... but at the same time it has gone. What news does the work present? It is a completely new idea.

And, above all, positive.

It's what I want to communicate to people.

How many times has it not happened to you that you have remembered a man that you have not seen for five, eight years?

"What happened to Pepe?" You ask yourself.

And 10 minutes go by, an hour.

The telephone rings.

And it's Pepe.

How many times has it not happened to you that you are with your partner, you both start talking about two different things at the same time and you start with exactly the same three words?

How many times have you not been to a certain place and you stand there looking and say "mattresses"?

And it turns out that 10 years ago you passed by, and there was a truck unloading mattresses that made you stand in the car for 20 minutes and you thought "What a joy to lie down on a mattress now."

Where did you keep that information that comes to you now like that?

Do you realize the amount of information, of data that we receive?

We get millions of bits of information a day, between 15 and 20 million.

And we consciously process 20. And with those we live.

And we live well! The contemporary human being tends to be underestimated but we are currently capable of processing three times as much information as a few years ago ... Exactly.

Throughout this pandemic, we have processed more information than ever in our lives.

We discovered something that years ago we saw in movies: the video calls we first saw in

.

What was science fiction very recently is science today.

Therefore, man is advancing, from the caverns to now.

And we continue to do so.

And where do we take all that information?

Why don't we use it?

That is the basis of the show.

We all have capabilities that we do not know because no one has taught us to use them.

And I do.

Years ago there was a career called steno typing.

My son is 13 years old: he writes on the computer keyboard like lightning.

And he has not been through any race.

You give any kid a phone and he knows how to type anything very quickly.

I see kids who are talking and texting at the same time.

There are surgeons who recommend that before an operation they play a video game due to the movement of the controls on the

.

We have come to develop skills with our fingers thanks to those controls.

Our joints have been modified and improved to have a greater range of motion.

And this evolution has happened in a short time, in less than 30 years.

We are gaining more and more skills.

Who tells us that what does not make sense now will not have it in a short time?

Skills that are now unknown will soon be as easy as speaking, reading or writing.

If you put yourself in the Middle Ages, they read and wrote four.

Our society is based on communication.

And we are improving our channels to do so.

Therefore, our own brain also adapts, improves and uses more and more capacity. You place intuition in those capacities, right? Intuition is the random sum of a series of information that manifests itself in a certain way in a moment.

We all know how to differentiate a hunch "from I want".

"I want to win the lottery ..." Damn, and me!

But the day you are living a situation and it gives you a kind of emptiness in your stomach, you say "such a thing will happen."

And the next day, or two days, or three, it happens.

And you say "it was a stroke of intuition, why did I know that?"

That information is stored there.

And all these things are manifesting in very particular and determined moments of our life.

We have all had intuition.

We have been to a friends party with our partner: we arrive together and each one leaves with their group.

And at a certain moment you meet the eyes of your wife or your partner and both of you know perfectly what you are thinking about both.

And that is every day. Do you think that this crisis will make us more cynical with issues such as telepathy or on the contrary, we will seek more explanations, we will be more open to new concepts? This confinement situation has forced us to appreciate much more the capacity that we have the people to relate to.

We have missed those friends, we have missed that family and we have recovered many of those stories by videoconference.

I myself have done something in

and it has worked very well, people have been very happy.

The public is wrapped up in their home so there is a higher level of expression and confidence, with which I am convinced that we are not going to be more skeptical.

Quite the opposite.

We are going to be willing to open ourselves more because precisely in that openness our coexistence is once again, our normality begins again.

To realize again that we are human beings in need of others.

And if at this time contact is not possible, we can communicate without the need for contact ... or need to speak.

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