(FOUR STARS)
“I can go many days without making a sound. Since I was a child, I’ve been like that, quiet,” says René (Luciano Caceres), he
protagonist of this one-person proposal, located in a kind of demolished warehouse where he found refuge to protect himself from the suffocating outside universe.
According to what he says, he learned of the absence of his mother and much later that of his father, a carpenter who dedicated himself to building coffins and who, judging by his statements, raised him in a rather rigorous manner and with a lack of affection.
“Living with you is like living with a dumb dog; You don’t bark, you don’t jump, you don’t wag your tail, you don’t cry,” she told him sternly. One day, she took him to a square, where a group of drunken women showed him what sex was. That
traumatic discovery, also contributed to forming his personality.
The boy, who grew up in the shadow of helplessness, can’t stand his dad’s new wife, a person with verbal incontinence whom he nicknamed “bag of words” because of her physical build, and he doesn’t get along well either.
with “big guy”, his half-brother, because they never wanted him around. If René is clear about one thing, it is that he cannot go around begging for affection or tenderness where there is no receptivity. The only person who brings a little peace to your
existence is Rosa, whom he has known since school and with whom he has sex, from time to time.
Over the course of about fifty minutes, we will discover that this naive man has a different understanding than the others. It is like those train passengers who get off at the wrong station and find themselves disoriented, as if lost in a world that they cannot fully understand. To make matters worse, his hands seem wounded and it is beyond his wits to remember where the blood that covers them came from. Although it is clear in the plot what this stain is due to, we will not reveal it in these lines, but a lot has to do with the title of the work.
The concrete thing is that such a text, written and directed by Francisco Lumerman, requires a talented actor, capable of making the edges of a difficult-to-interpret character convincing. Cáceres, emerged from the hosts of Andamio 90,
that hotbed of artists founded by the remembered Alejandra Boero, is the ideal interpreter. Not only because he has the indispensable talent to construct this misunderstood victim, but because he manages to transmit a mask that goes
from apparent candidness to explicit violence. Only will be on the bill for six performancesdon’t miss the opportunity to enjoy it.
