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Certainly at some point in your life you lived the experience of going to the theater. Maybe you're more amateur and it's something you do in your everyday life, or maybe more of a boy your grandmother took you a weekend and that's the only memory you have to be sitting in a butaca watching people live interpret different roles. But finally, you have gone one or a thousand times, the microtheater is a completely different experience, for all kinds of people.
How does this trend arise?
The proposal was born in Spain, more specifically in Madrid, in 2009, and it took time to reach Buenos Aires in 2017. This activity comes from the hand of Juliet Navarro and Paulo Bossi, in charge of installing the microtheater in the port city. Particularly, what is special is the rupture of the traditional and known in the area of the show, placing special focus on the audience's interaction with the work.
I must admit that my first experience ripped off a little with my left foot. I, like many others of this generation, have the bad habit of getting religiously late to places. I always do the typical Argentinean: fixed me at what time I have to be in place and calculate about five or ten minutes late “of margen”. If I already know, it's wrong and I'm working on it. But the point of the story is that this day really came so only two minutes late, and they did not let us pass. Obviously, at first, I took a disgust, and again Argentine thought: “good che, what does it cost them to let in?”. But when I got into the next function, I understood why they couldn't let me spend a minute late, and why if they let me go through all the function.
Finally and not to enlarge the mystery, I spoke with the reception people who fortunately with the best wave told me "tranquila, to all passes" and they moved me later. When I walked into space it was something brilliantly simple: a pretty squirt salita with the painted walls of yellow, fifteen chairs for fifteen spectators, and two actors who were already on scene for when we all entered the room. Everything went through in fifteen minutes, and in that brief lapse I experienced a range of immense emotions, reacted, surprised me and empathizes with the characters. All this in fifteen minutes.
A disruptive format
The innovator of the microtheater space is that you are necessarily forced to interact with the work, either because suddenly the actor includes you in the dialogue or because it acts looking fixed for the eyes, creating a climate of unique and even challenging intimacy. To me, one of the many times I've been, she freaked out that the actress would take me a piece of food like a dove, and until I didn't grab it, she wouldn't stop looking at me. So, a thousand more jokes.
I think the most rupturist of this format is that, when it is such short works, it gives time to take a wine or eat something in betweentime, and at that rate you can quietly see three or four works in one night. In particular, I do not want to fail to do an analysis of the socio-cultural meaning that lets you see the microtheater about our generation. The truth is that, positive or not, generations are well known for their need for ephemeral and fast. Everything should happen immediately and soon, songs that have gone from having five or six minutes today do not last more than two, and a video that lasts more than a minute already seems to be an insult to the viewer. Although a judgment on this was a reason for another analysis, the truth is that in a society with so many stimuli and at the same time, so little time for everything, the microtheater seems to have known to adapt perfectly. What is more, although it is true that it offers some comfort and containment to the new generations, it does so at the same time that it challenges their levels of commitment and requires them the total attention and dedication for just fifteen minutes.
Since its debut year, the microtheater has presented more than six hundred works in Buenos Aires in its six rooms, seen by more than half a million viewers. The offer of works is presented monthly, so it is necessary to be attentive to the replacement of the cartel. It's a plan to do with friends, couples and definitely alone. Personally, I recommend going without planning it, a night when dinner is over before the planned, or simply be with your friends, just in the middle of the palermo asking what the next stop is.
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