SMALL SUICIDES (three brief exorcisms of quotidian use)
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
FULL VIDEO
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Small-format show for one actor and many animated objects. For
the young and adults. Indoor. Suitable for air transport (2 pax, 1
suitcase). Available in English
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) or in an amphitheater, or up to 250 if in addition we have
a video camera capturing image from the back of the room and big
screen TV or projector in proscenium (see
images) / minimal distance between the audience and the
stage: 2m / maximal distance among the stage and the most distant
spectator between 10 and 15m (with video support) / 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)






