Kamille Gutierrez in Uno Toma lo que Tiene (en Casa). Photo by Kendal Montgomery.
The differences between man and woman, friend and foe, love and hate, life and death and languages. Dance, live music, audience interaction, dialogue and silence.
Uno Toma lo que Tiene (en Casa), (One Takes What They Have (at Home)) is a play meant to break conventional theater rules, to show one has freedom to do it all in just one work.
Written by Swiss playwright August Strindberg and performed by the Dédalo Company under Hugo Osorio´s direction, this play truly is a must see; it is innovative, intimate and far from your normal theater experience.
To start, the stage is outside on the roof of Lastarria 90, and there is no seating. You may stand or sit where you please, the actors working around you. There are four characters in they play: A sultry, confused girl, where sexuality is the only way with which she knows how to interact with men (Kamille Gutierrez); a vindictive, jealous girl (Loreto Caviedes); a seemingly outcast girl (Javiera Gutierrez); and a crazy misogynist man, with a horrible family background (Ignacio Pérez).
Together, these four take Strindberg´s work, highly influenced by his mental instability, and act out narrative fragments, never establishing an articulated dramatic unity.
It is a strange play, and at times I was confused, but all the same, I really enjoyed it. It seems that through such disillusioned characters, we are able to find truth, especially in terms of a parent´s behavior—the home environment—affecting their children, how much women are affected by social constructs of sexuality and how we often misunderstand people, by judging their appearance and their surface behavior.
The acting was phenomenal. These four never faltered and made me believe they were their character. Due to all showing a lot of skin, some completely nude at one point, I admired their confidence—and honestly, their willingness to strip down outside on a cold winter´s night. It was obvious that Osorio did his job well and I commend him for pulling off such a complex play.
In it´s final week, I highly recommend you brace the cold and go see this fascinating 50-minute play. I assure you, there´s never a dull moment; it´s well worth your time.
Details:
Thursday, 23 June - Sunday, 26 June
8:30 p.m.
Lastarria 90
$4,000 CLP general entrance, $2,000 CLP students and elders
