Since the creation of the Carniceria Teatro (Butchery Theatre), in
Madrid in 1989, Rodrigo García and the actors in his company have
developed an experimental form of theatre based on the body, matter and
oral expression. Close to visual arts and dance, the Argentinean
director favours crude and poetic language. He works on objects and
matter as much as on the energy of bodies on stage. Construction and
deconstruction, fragments, splinters, violence are part of this
non-conformist’s playwriting. From the writing to the stage, the
playwright’s political and radical intention seems literally to take
shape through visions linked to current events. As well as directing
other playwrights, and staging theatrical happenings, he has written
over fifteen plays since Acera derecha (1989) and among the more recent, After Sun (2000), I bought a spade at Ikea’s to dig my grave (2002), The Story of Ronald, the McDonald’s Clown, Jardinería humana (2003), Borges + Goya and I scattered my ashes at Eurodisney (2006).
At the Avignon Festival, Rodrigo García presented After Sun, I Think You Have Misunderstood Me in 2002 and The Story of Ronald, the McDonald’s Clown in 2004.
In this new show, the Argentinean stage director Rodrigo García,
returns to his childhood memories. The title sets the pace, that of the
cooking time of a steak. But Very rare. Rare. Medium Rare. Charred. is
a way of revisiting the little known Argentinean expression of “La
Murga” and the carnival “Murgueros” (carnival-goers from poor
districts) who devote themselves to it all year long, making minute
preparations that go from costumes to rehearsals. Rodrigo García
remembers his fascination as a child for the festive aspect of the
event, with its basic dances and street music, where percussions and
colours encourage excess. Today, he concentrates on what lies behind
this celebration: a form of protest, an unresolved social issue.
For the first time, the director, together with his long-time actor
accomplice, Juan Loriente, integrates a fifteen person strong troupe of
“Murgueros”, carnival musicians and dancers. The desire to create a new
form of fiction, to break with old habits and to build a new collective
world stemmed from this “meeting with people who have never done any
theatre and who don’t even speak the same language”. The creative
process interweaves writing based on these exchanges with images shot
in Buenos Aires. These relay each other to produce a novel vision, a
novel poetic agit prop event.
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