“Consent”: the theatrical event that comes to Argentina

The adaptation of the English play arrives in Buenos Aires as a world premiere, directed by Carla Calabrese and Mela Lenoir, together with an outstanding cast on stage made up of Diego Gentile, Mela Lenoir, Iride Mockert, Daniela Pantano, Bruno Pedicone, Alejandra Perlusky and Sebastián Suñé. The piece can be seen in the porteño Maipo Theater (Esmeralda 443), starting Tuesday March 14 in two weekly performances on Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. and Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

The renowned English playwright and theater director girl rain, is distinguished by its deeply human pieces that reflect on bond dysfunctions and the challenges of society. The most outstanding piece of him, “Consent”, He talks about justice that never reaches and poses a moral dilemma that challenges cultural mandates, the value of truth, the depth of human ties and the harshness of the legal system with precise touches of humor.

This theatrical premiere will undoubtedly be a modern and bold proposal for the 2023 theater season in Argentina. “Consent” was unveiled in London in 2017 at the National theater and is preceded by laudatory reviews from the international press. Since her first work, “Rabbit” (2011), the playwright girl rain He has created his own language that manages to capture in his pieces a balance between drama and comedy.

“The harsh drama of girl rain on Rape and Sexual Consent felt like a bold statement when it opened to great acclaim at London’s National Theater in April 2017. More than a year later it seems even more timely and potentially more inflammatory,” he said, at the time. , The Hollywood Reporter.

“A woman accuses a man of having raped her. He claims that everything was consented. There are no witnesses to the event in question. It’s her word against his word. The issue will be debated in court, but the end result resulted from the cunning of lawyers in a win-lose game. Violation or consent? Is the plot premise created by the author.

In this regard, at its premiere, London theater He described the work as a “courtroom drama which, thanks to its skillful narrative plot and the careful portrayal of the characters, encompasses much more than a police thriller. Despite all the legal jargon and grandstanding about the world of law that most of its characters move in, there is only one brief scene that takes place in an actual courtroom. Raine capitalizes on this concern to return the role of justice and truth to the audience, who, sitting in seats, are carefully reined in their own morality in a heart-wrenching drama.”

After the award-winning successes of critics and the public, that the director carla calabrese got titles like “Come from afar” and “Shrek…the musical”is added with mela lenoir to carry out the ambitious staging of the stage company. “Modern classics don’t come around very often. “Consent” is, without a doubt, just that: an intricately constructed philosophical drama that does for love, law and language, what “Copenhagen” or “Arcadia” they did in their time”, predicted Variety in its staging for the United States and it is estimated that, in Buenos Aires, the theatrical event will have the same effect.

by RN