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VIDEO
SMALL SUICIDES
(three brief exorcisms of quotidian use)
Object Theatre
Small-format show for one actor and animated objects. Available in English. For the young and adults. Indoor. Suitable for air transport (2 pax, 1 suitcase).
Recreation in collaboration with the author, of the
surprising show "PICCOLI SUICIDI (tre brevi esorcismi d'uso
quotidiano)" by Gyula Molnár, which is
staged using an extravagant ritual language, where the object
is not disguised or transformed to impersonate roles or
characters own of the human vicissitudes, but, accepting or
trying to escape of their objective function, the object
represents himself with astonishing dignity. The actor does
not use the objects, but helps them to express.
In a nakedness and sobriety that moves and excites both in the
dramaturgy –of a great poetic level-, as in the staging,
avoiding the spectacular technical effects to focus on the
essential of theatrical act.
Premiered in 1984, has become a classical Object
Theatre's show, has performed around the world with
a great success and continues being spectacularly
innovative.

Synopsis
This recreation is composed by a presentation and the three
monologues:
ALKA-SELTZER, an effervescent tragedy. After
several attempts to escape of his obvious condition, a tablet
of Alka-Seltzer ends up in the swamp of his own marginality.
PITA and JÖRG, the burning metamorphosis of a
coffee seed and a match. Pita, fascinating and bewitching
Brazilian, with her extravagances, does lose his head Jörg, a
young Swedish, who is consumed with love for her.
TIME, tragicomic poetry… About the passage of
time. (Pulling faces in the mirror of a poetical image)

Presentation
Gyula Molnár was born in Budapest in 1950.
He lives in Hungary until 1962, and then temporarily resides
in Bavaria (Germany). He studies in the school of Fine Arts of
Venice (Italy) from 1968 to 1973. He exercises the carpenter's
trade until 1976. Since then he works only on theatre as
author, actor, and director and occasionally as draftsman and
scenography designer. Among his best known works are: "Piccoli
Suicidi", "Il Sonnambulo" and "Gagarin".
"SMALL SUICIDES (three brief exorcisms of quotidian use)"
is a dramatization and recreation made by Carles
Cañellas based from the original show, with the
indispensable complicity and primary indications of the
author.
Molnár, after watched a video of the finished
version, he wrote to Cañellas in these
terms: "Bravissimo. Commovente. Sei splendido. Mi
sento onorato. Grazie" ("Bravissimo. Exciting.
You're terrific. I feel honored. Thank you").

CREDITS
Author: Gyula Molnár
Translator, Adapter and Player: Carles Cañellas
Production: Susanna Rodríguez
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
DURATION: performance: 52min / stage set up:
1 hour / dismantling: 45min
AUDIENCE: the young and adults
SCENIC SPACE: total darkness / silence /
"theatrical" atmosphere / comfortable audience visibility to
the inclinable surface of a table 80 x 60cm / visibility also
determines the optimum capacity, which can vary from a minimum
of 7 to a maximum of 100 people, if the audience is arranged
on tiers (banks) / minimal distance between the audience and
the stage: 2m / maximal distance among the stage and the most
distant spectator 10m / preferably with background or black
box theatre.
minimal measures: width: 4m / depth: 2,5m /
height: 2,5m
SOUND: in small spaces we play unplugged
LIGHTING: for the space of the table we use a
150w incandescent lamp hanging from the top, with a Kraft
paper lampshade with a fader switch on the table, so that is
the actor who regulates it himself. For the rest of the scenic
spaces he uses a lantern and a hand lamp of 60 watts. For the
audience entrance must have a minimum light as possible and
always indirect, because the stage is lit in dim by the lamp
of the table and should be avoided interfering with this
atmosphere. In no case more light is needed.
CURRENT: power outlet on the stage / potency
1Kw/h (220v)