The history is well-known and, not, less captivating. In the mid-fifties of the last century, the artist Mark Rothko received an inviting assignment: to paint five large murals to decorate the gallery of the dining room at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, in exchange for a succulent quantity of money. Until that time, it was the most expensive commission for the Sistine Chapel. Rothko, one of the great representatives of abstract expressionism, he didn’t finish the assignment and, after a time, decided to return the money and stay with the boxes already started in your study. Why? What happened in between? These two questions are answered in the theatrical production of Red, the story of John Logan (California, 1961), represented over half the world and won six awards, Tomy, among them the Best Work. The function arrives at the Spanish Theater of the hand of Juan Echanove, and Ricardo Gomez, with direction of its own Echanove. Red, a stark, vibrant, and tense conversation about the misunderstandings, generational, artistic and ethical, are rendered in Spanish from next Thursday until December 30.
“it Is difficult to find a text and the characters who bring more emotion and life to the actors. The text of Logan immerses you in a magma emotional, that is reeling in that huge lectern where Rothko was painting his five large murals.” Juan Echanove is exultant. Ago has stopped the headache out of target –substitution as a director of the function, after a medical problem of Gerardo Vera – and is now being presented to the press more than happy. Red was born from an exhaustive research of the playwright and screenwriter John Logan (author of, among other scripts in Gladiator or The aviator), around the figure of Mark Rothko (Daugavpils, Latvia, 1903 – New York 1970). Was Rothko a man arrogant, ruthless, tortured, and complicated, bullied as a painter by the new currents of pop art that struggled to Casinoslot break into the art scene. In Red, a work of fiction based on data and real facts, and the most successful theatrical Logan, Rothko (Juan Echanove) confronts his assistant, a young man (played by Ricardo Gomez), which will plant face as no one had dared to do so, and leads him to some profound reflections and discussions about life and art.
Both Echanove (Madrid, 1961) as Gomez (Madrid, 1994) confess, deeply moved by what that they live on the stage of Red. “We are not able to spend, technically the function. It is impossible not to confront the text from the truth, more absolute, that hurts and burns of truth,” says Juan Echanove, to which his partner adds: “In my short history of the theatre, Red is, without a doubt, the greatest challenge that I have faced”.
Of characters such as Rothko, an artist, “despicable” staff and “huge” in the artistic, is Echanove flees into the profession as a demon. “There are many, and are toxic. The actors are a material very sensitive, that when we face people so heartless, as Rothko, you can end up with us and not recover ever,” added the actor and director, who is also part of the production of this mount.
Echanove has not eluded either their concern at the lack of freedom, which, in its opinion, has gripped the artistic creation. “Spain is experiencing difficult times in terms of the creation. The freedom is threatened,” he assured in a meeting with the press. “We have opened the door to censorship, and that door is very difficult to close. Censorship is a situation that you can fight, but if this censorship applies it to one’s self, the creative level, it is possible that is less than desired,” added the actor, who has proclaimed his absolute solidarity with Dani Mateo, the comedian of The Sixth that has been imputed by blowing the nose with a Spanish flag. “It is a manifest injustice. Support with my life, Dani, Matthew, persecuted for making a joke about a flag. It seems that the object of the joke is the flag, but I see things that are done with the flag and that make some politicians of one side or another, and that yes should be in prison,” he assured. “Today you can not do anything, because you can put in prison”.
