The comedian, poet and actor Pepe Viyuela returns to Madrid’s Teatro del Barrio on 2 April at 1 p.m. in a single performance, with the play Encerrona, directed by Elena González.
It was on this stage, when it was still the Sala Triángulo, that he first played the clown who stars in this one-man show, which he created himself and which is a metaphor for life: we are obliged to act, to move forward, even if we don’t know where we have got to. In a society obsessed with success, the clown is seen as the loser. As a failed, clumsy person. Overwhelmed by so many demands for productivity. So his presence humanises the spectator, vindicates his fragility, moves him.
For an hour and fifty minutes, he is forced to perform for the audience watching him. His only companions on his journey are a series of everyday objects with which he tries to get by: a guitar, a chair, a jacket, a newspaper and a ladder. They are his shield, with them he plays and improvises, suffers and has fun. Objects become in his hands great friends or terrible enemies, because he has forgotten their use, or perhaps he has never known it. Like a child, he is confronted for the first time with objects, for us everyday objects, and for him absolutely mysterious and surprising. Climbing a ladder or putting on a jacket are almost impossible tasks for him. Tickets can be purchased here.
