{"id":6544,"date":"2015-12-04T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2015-12-04T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T11:18:00","slug":"fernando-arrabals-pinguinas-at-the-teatro-espanols-matadero-in-madrid-spectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/2015\/12\/04\/6544\/fernando-arrabals-pinguinas-at-the-teatro-espanols-matadero-in-madrid-spectacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Arrabal\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0Ping\u00fcinas\u00a0\u00bb at the Teatro Espa\u00f1ol&rsquo;s Matadero (Madrid)&nbsp;: Spectacular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/files\/2015\/12\/pinguinaspeque\u00f1a2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" src=\"https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/files\/2015\/12\/pinguinaspeque\u00f1a2.jpg\" alt=\"pinguinaspeque\u00f1a2\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/files\/2015\/12\/pinguinaspeque\u00f1a2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/files\/2015\/12\/pinguinaspeque\u00f1a2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laregledujeu.org\/arrabal\/files\/2015\/12\/pinguinaspeque\u00f1a2-620x310.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-323\">Fernando Arrabal<\/strong>\u2019<strong>s<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>\u00ab\u00a0Ping\u00fcinas\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>at the Teatro Espa\u00f1ol\u2019s Matadero<\/p>\n<p>in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo credit: Javier Naval.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spectacular<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phyllis Zatlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0During a visit to Madrid, I saw&#8230;\u00a0 <strong>Arrabal\u2019s Ping\u00fcinas<\/strong>. Juan Carlos P\u00e9rez de la Fuente was named to a four-year term at the helm of Madrid\u2019s municipal Teatro Espa\u00f1ol, starting 11 July 2014, but the previous director Natalio Grueso, who took over in 2012, had already made arrangements for the 2014\u201315 program. He had not, however, accounted for the Teatro Espa\u00f1ol\u2019s Naves at the Matadero (former slaughterhouse). P\u00e9rez de la Fuente promptly named in Fernando Arrabal\u2019s honor one of two halls converted there into theatres. The recognition was no doubt merited. Arrabal (b. 1932), who has lived in Paris most of his life, is the best known contemporary Spanish dramatist and author in the world.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9rez de la Fuente reports that he contacted Arrabal in September, asking that he write a work to commemorate the 400th anniversary of part 2 of Miguel de Cervantes\u2019s Don Quijote&#8230;\u00a0 Given the stunning performance&#8230;\u00a0 in his program notes, Arrabal affirms that these \u201cQuijotas\u201d or \u201cCervantas\u201d make no commentaries and teach no lessons. They reflect the essence of Don Quijote, which proclaims liberty above and beyond sanity and madness.<\/p>\n<p>The female penguins of the title are ten women in the Cervantes family, ranging from his grandmother to his illegitimate daughter. Before the action begins, their names and relationship to Cervantes, along with their birth and death dates, are projected for the benefit of spectators seated on two sides of the stage area, facing a central structure that resembled a space launch tower. The cast consists of ten women and one man, who wears a shirt labeled \u201cMiho\u201d and is loudly proclaimed to be the son of them all.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cping\u00fcinas\u201d is inspired by an annual gathering of the Penguins motorcycle club. The casting call for the ten women specified that the actors had to be able to handle emotional, physical roles and to ride motorcycles. Despite the latter requirement, there were one thousand applicants. Perhaps the most famous in the final list of ten is Ana Torrent, who portrayed Luisa de Bel\u00e9n, Cervantes\u2019s sister who was a nun. Others who play major roles are Mar\u00eda Hervas as Torreblanca, the grandmother, and Marta Poveda as Constanza, the niece.<\/p>\n<p>All ten roles are indeed physical, involving constant motion and costume changes. Among the costumes, designed by Almudena Rodr\u00edguez Huertas, quasi-military camouflage garb dominates; these are layered, facilitating rapid transformations. Near the end of the production, seven of the women appeared as brides, donning white skirts over hoops. In a final scene, located presumably in a mental health, they wore orange costumes.<\/p>\n<p>Marta Carrasco created an outstanding movement and choreography design. The playing space, with tiered seating on two sides, featured a wide entrance in the middle of one of them and was open on the other two sides except for supporting posts. Most surprising, she choreographed motorcycle action as the bikes circled around the stage area in various formations. The bikes appeared perilously close to one another but there were no collisions. Front ends of bikes were at times topped with heads of horses or horned animals. The motorcycles alternated between entering the stage soundlessly and roaring in.<\/p>\n<p>Equally impressive was the lighting, created by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Guerra that culminated in a fireworks display rising up the tower. The Cervantes character made several aerial entrances from the side. To represent the Spanish author\u2019s extended imprisonment in Africa, where he was held for ransom, Miho flies in a cage.<\/p>\n<p>Arrabal is celebrated for his provocative, transgressive theatre. P\u00e9rez de la Fuente may well be right that the chaotic action of Ping\u00fcinas could prove to be the Spanish author\u2019s greatest work. Certainly the spectacular staging at the Matadero will not soon be surpassed\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phyllis Zatlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European Stages is a publication of the\u00a0Martin E. 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