There were only five performances of the play – this Saturday at five in the afternoon is the last one – but the word of mouth of the comments sold out the tickets. The Mataderos Neighborhood Association that defended, claimed, contributed and managed to recover a new the Del Plata cinema theaternow a member of the public theater network of the Buenos Aires Theater Complexmade a presentation to the director of the room to be reinstated next year.
The scene unfolds in a “smart” building. The character played by the actor Juan Manuel Correa, “Timo”, lives and works connected to the world through technology. He does research and work commissioned by a mysterious agency that sells his services. As a “project,” she developed a hologram of his father so she could have conversations with him as if they were real. Until the system crashes: “All good?”
The plot takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of “Alma”, the character in charge of the actress Micaela Sol Bruzzone, a witty and sarcastic young woman, a secret admirer of “Timo”. Her aggressive entrance adds a touch of dark humor to the play. “Alma” hides a secret. The tension reaches its peak when Alma, with cunning and determination, has control over Timo, who in turn is torn between his job and his attraction to Alma.
For the director, Leonor Benedettothe work attracts the public because it deals with a very current topic that is very disturbing. “All good”? It is a fiction very close to reality, It works as an alarm about where we are heading. With his works, Carlos Ares makes, as he says, “chronicles by other means” and that is what I really like about his works, of which I have already directed two. He has a deep look, he knows how to read what happens to us.”
“In addition – Bendetto clarifies – I have the right actors. She had not worked with them before. In rehearsals I give the actors the opportunity to take the freedom to try, create, respond to what they feel about the character and, truly, they surprised me. Micaela and Juan Manuel have a special talent. It doesn’t often happen to me, as a director, that the characters find the right actor. In this case, it happened. I think that this also, in addition to what is said, influences the impact that the work has.”
“Leonor is like my artistic mother,” says Micaela Sol Bruzzone. “From the first day I read the work, I told my family and my friends, “I want to play this character, I want to put the body in it. When Leonor called me and told me: “Alma is you, I want you to do it, no I could have more happiness. I feel that “Alma” is that style of character that makes us a better person. The way he communicates, the brutal honesty of him, makes you slow down and wonder how you are choosing to live your life.”
Juan Manuel Correa remembers that “on first reading I felt that it was a necessary work. a piece that reflects how we live in this time of excess screens, with more and more limitations to getting closer body to body, lovingly.. We use technology to show what we want people to see about us, but not us as we are. That Leonor summoned me was a great joy. Her experience as an actress makes the language in the rehearsal field as fluid as it is subtle. A single word from him is enough to find, and even heal. In us are all the beings of the world, she says, and diving there, in the abysmal depths of the soul is “Timo”, my character.
The author Carlos Ares debuts as an actor in his own work at the request of the director, Leonor Benedetto. A journalist by trade, writer of three novels, he thanks the “master” Tito Cossa, the one who also made him start as a playwright: “You have a very good ear for theater music, which is dialogue, he told me, after reading one of my first works. As he said, such encouragement was enough for me to start writing. And so several works came out. With one of them, “Others of us”, directed by Leonor, we performed at the Ibero-American Festival of Cádiz. With another, “Negro y Rosa”, I fulfilled a great wish, that of paying tribute in Rosario to the beloved Negro Fontanarrosa.”
After the last performance of “Everything OK?” On Saturday at the Teatro del Plata in the Mataderos neighborhood, Juan Bautista Alberdi 5,765, Ares premieres another work, “Eternals until tomorrow” in El Galpón de Guevara, Guevara 326, Chacarita.
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