Anabel Alonso: "We actors always live on a tightrope"

Theater

The Basque interpreter premieres 'The Imaginary Sick' at the Madrid Comedy Theater. SERGIO PARRA

The Basque interpreter is under the command of Josep Maria Flotats in 'The Imaginary Sick', Molière's classic, performed for the first time by the National Classical Theater Company.

The original premiere, scheduled for last April at the Teatro de la Comedia in Madrid, had to be canceled due to the state of alarm.

The 12 actors that make up the production will perform the first functions with a mask.

"Now all the vaccines say they are the best, to see if they take them out with flavors. We go up for bingo and mine cures Covid, malaria, colds and for the period it is also valid."

Actress

(Baracaldo, 1964) does not lose humor when it comes to dealing with the pandemic that devastated one of the most anticipated premieres of the year:

at the Madrid Comedy Theater.

is in charge of directing a montage that some voices have compared to his mythical

.

After postponing its premiere in April, it will finally premiere on November 18 and will remain on the bill until December 27, not without surprises.

At the moment, Flotats has announced that the 12 actors of the production (third of the National Classical Theater Company and in which he also plays a role) will go on stage and do the function with masks.

The play was expected in April ... But the pandemic stopped its premiere a few days before it took place.

How have you lived the whole process until it seems, now, definitive premiere? We were a week away from the premiere and it was a bit-quite frustrating.

And then we didn't know what was going to happen.

It was being postponed: what if August, what if September, what if October ... I no longer knew what to expect.

And well, now it seems that yes, which virus through, we will release.

We have recovered the rehearsals with due precautions. Has the montage changed? No, being a classic, a Molière, there is not much friction, let's be honest.

[laughs] We rehearse with a mask, which is the most annoying: you don't vocalize well, you don't breathe well ... But like everything else, humans get used to it.

Let's see if we can try a little without a mask.

It is strange not to see the faces of the companions that I don't even tell you about!

It's very curious: it looks like science fiction, then you get used to it, suddenly it seems unreal ... [At the time of the interview, Flotats had not yet announced that the performance of the play will be done with a mask as a protest for the lack of of protection measures for the actors' union]. Curiously, in the initial presentation of the play, Josep Maria Flotats spoke of a "universal pandemic".

He was referring to people who imagine illnesses to hide their emotional problems.

Do you feel that now this evil is much more present? Much more.

Here is a reality, which is the pandemic, plus the collateral effects.

People who have many types of fears: anxiety, fear of losing their job, of getting infected, of rubbing against each other ... This virus has affected us on many levels, be it real, hypochondriacal, social ... It is changing our way of relating, of living.

We are all imaginary potential patients.

There are, unfortunately, real.

And many of us are like with that sword of Damocles on top.

Josep Maria Flotats and Anabel Alonso, with masks during a rehearsal of the play.

/ S. PARRA

Flotats also highlighted that Spain ranks second in the world in the consumption of anxiolytics, totally.

In general we are very used to making plans and having everything more or less under control.

And now, from one day to the next, that control does not exist, which makes people more uneasy, more anxious and insecure.

The sale of anxiolytics has to be skyrocketing.

I think many have signed up for what Argán, the protagonist of

.

I already tell you yes. Is it a lot of responsibility to be part of a play that had never been premiered in Spain in a major theater?

I think it's a great montage.

It is ugly that I say it, because I am inside and it is a bit like the artist's mother.

But Josep Maria has done a millimetric directing job, accompanied by the set design and costumes by Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino, who are already living classics ... Frigerio is 90 years old now, I hope he will do more sets but I don't know.

And the space is wonderful.

I think so, that it will be one of those montages that are remembered.

When Flotats called me, I had the idea that this function had been done many times.

It's like

, you doubt if you've read it or not.

Well, this I thought had been done.

And he said "No, no. In Spain it has never been done at an official level."

A long shot premiere has never had.

Its the first time.

And just on the 400th anniversary of Molière. He assures that the text has not lost its validity. Suddenly you read it and you see that 400 years ago the daughter was already vindicating herself and none of you marry me with who you want: I want to live and manage my life .

You already have that plea, Molière.

In this case, he also points out to the doctors, that it could be generalized in the cultured people who handle us, who start saying strange words to you, you get lost and you allow yourself to be fooled.

We work on different levels of manipulation: social, cultural ... and we continue with that. Do you continue to "live life through the characters?" If the actors have something good, it is that we already have this learning.

I have said it on occasion: we have always lived, and we live, on a tightrope.

First, you do not know how long that job you are hired for is going to last, be it for theater or television.

In cinema you already know what filming is.

And when it's over, you don't know when you're going to go back to work.

Now, all workers, whatever their field, are in this situation.

They do not know what will become of them tomorrow.

In that sense we have already learned from home, so we carry it, in quotes, a little better.

That uncertainty, that not knowing what, that I'm working today but maybe not tomorrow and I don't know if it will be until next week or until next year.

This tightrope is our way of life.

And for better or for worse, we already have this.

People, to get rid of a little anxiety, what they would have to learn a little is to improvise, to face life as it comes and not to plan too much, because it is useless today.

Anyway, when the vaccine comes, we can return on our own and make travel plans for next year and a thousand things.

But for now, the fundamental thing is to have a waist, improvise and adapt to the day to day.

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