Pills against the society pain
Art as a wake-up call. One of the multiple functions of artistic activity is to awaken consciences, to remove minds from lethargy and shake the tree of society to modify the order in which the fruits are placed. That order, although it comes from old, may not be the best for the future of the tree; and surely it is not the best for half of the apples. However, although the force of gravity of the habit makes its own, there are plays that fight on the contrary.
‘Píldoras rosadas’ by the artistic creator Pedro Ayose was premiered before the Lanzarote public on November 16 at the San Bartolomé theater. For the director “‘Píldoras rosadas’ is the reality; situations that happen in life and that somehow we have uploaded them to the stage without fiction, without sweetening, presented as they are “. This correspondence with reality is what the work seeks to recognize in the viewer. “It is the pure day to day,these are universal themes: sexism, abuse, rape, racism … exist since there is the human being itself” explains Pedro Ayose. “These are issues that have been hidden in the privacy of the houses and we take advantage of them to get them out, to make people know that this exists,” he says.
The work is led by the actresses Mariona Terés and Pilar Arocha, two women, like many, who have been able to relate the text of the work with their own life experiences. “There is a moment when you start reading what is written that makes me think, seriously these aberrations?” Arocha explains about the text of ‘Pink pills’. “This is not fiction, it’s a challenge because it’s a responsibility,” says the actress. Mariona Terés nods when her companion on stage speaks. For her, when preparing the role “we have pulled from the experiences that we know around us; Yes, there is a lot of responsibility when it comes to telling this text well, the only thing we want is to tell it. ”
“Surely there are people who we will find uncomfortable,” says Pedro Ayose. “There will be people who like it a lot and another who does not like anything,” adds Terés that continues “depends on the degree to which each one is reflected, because with machismo we are not conscious, we are all sexist and now there is people who are trying to reprogram and change it and there are people who do not want to. ” Arocha emphasizes that the society itself is sexist, “men and women”. The work is addressed to all because as Pedro Ayose sentence “it happens every day”.
In the work collaborates putting the voice in off the actress Ana Rujas. After the premiere on the island of Lanzarote, Pedro Ayose has the desire for the play to turn around the country. This is a work that begins now after the premiere of ‘Píldoras rosadas’ at home because “we believe that this play can touch inside de spectators.”
