Outsiders

Theatrical text No. 88
Tablas, Cuban magazine of performing arts

Outsiders raises the difficult problem of how to reflect a broken reality. A reality where the individual forces himself to animate a mask that no longer goes with his face. Where the individual dissolves in an empty collectivity and by imposed definition: happy. Where dreams can only occur as delirium or as a secret fulguration, a clandestine endeavor.
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A van moves across the island. In reality it is an itinerant radio station, with four announcers who talk about everything and nothing, who build an ever-changing myth that appears at the end as an ex machina resource that does not cease to be macabre.
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In the Platonic system the only real thing is ideas. In the world there are only copies. And between ideas and their excited copies there is no metaxis, there is no participation. And this is made very clear in Ianina’s Platonic «poiesis»: to put an end to Naruto, Cosmo, Zeka and Aquila’s flirtation with the world of ideas. Ianina takes possession of the van and thus excludes them from their paradise, from the precariously protected and imperfectly humanized space of the station (…) the Platonic Idea takes the place of the world and throws those desperate (though apparently banal characters) into another space of madness, somewhere between the island and the improbable and Soviet realm of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Introductory text by the professor José Alegría.

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