Daniel Veronese, one of the five members of the Buenos Aries-based company El Periferico de Objetos, conceived the project and created an anthropomorphic head with a human face, then he added a doll's body. The face resembles Beckett, accidentally. The doll is moved by three actor/puppeteers on a table and is the object of the first part of Variations on B... As they make the puppet come to life, they play antagonistic roles around it.In the second part of the performance, El Periferico works with old puppets. Two blind, dirty puppets that look a little ragged, like Beckett's Vladimir and Estragon, settle down on their small stage among suitcases and orange boxes. They create a sense of theatre within theatre and a synthesis of Beckett's novel First Love (written in 1946 and published in 1970), in three moments: a meeting and rejection, a meeting and acceptation, and a meeting and abandonment. This view of Beckett's universe is somewhat satirical, and the way the story is told is more important than the story itself. What may surprise the audience in the Argentinian Variations On B... is most likely a sort of violence that comes from the puppets' incapacity to move for themselves and their consequent vulnerability.
Distribution
stage direction Daniel Veronese
Assistant director : Felicitas Luna
Cast : Ana Alvarado, Emilio García Wehbi, Jorge Onofri et Alejandro Tantanián
Sound : Daniel Veronese
Lighting : Jorge Doliszniak
Prop design : Daniel Veronese
Production
Production : El Periférico de Objetos.
Le programme argentin a été réalisé avec l'aide : du ministère argentin des Affaires étrangères, du gouvernement de la ville de Buenos Aires, de l'ambassade de France en Argentine, de l'alliance française de Buenos Aires, de l'Association française d'action artistique-ministère des Affaires étrangères et du département des Affaires internationales du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Avec le soutien du : Teatro Babilonia de Buenos Aires
Avec le concours de : Aerolineas Argentinas
Création : 1991