Don Quixote scene rises Lima – The País.com (Spain)

The actor Jose Sacristan, right, with writer Mario Vargas Llosa on a balcony of Spanish Theatre , which premieres ‘Crazy balconies’. / Alvaro Garcia

Aldo Brunelli not is an invented character, is the transcript of an old Italian professor who lived in Lima in the fifties and became his crusade for the protection of traditional balconies of the city -amenazados death driller in a new edificaciones- of these chimeras own crazy, despite being loaded with reason. Mario Vargas Llosa was then a student and teacher Bruno Roselli, as it was called Crazy balconies, was a flamboyant character on and calling him wide attention. Roselli died but her character goes on stage tomorrow Spanish Theatre (until 19 October) played by the Spanish actor Jose Sacristan, who sees in him a “quixotic” character, one of those drunken men of idealism, able to ride through the colonial Lima or any other corner of the world with their utopia on the backs. “It’s just that here instead of mills have balconies,” says the actor.

“I wrote the play years after meeting Professor Roselli, and in my years in Europe when homesick for my teens and youth in Lima, “recalls Vargas Llosa. “In those years the teacher was well known for his lectures on art and for his defense of the balcony, where he saw the fusion of Spanish and indigenous tradition. Mestizos were condensed objects both cultures. To me the character moved me because although it was clear that their campaign would be a failure he kept on with his quixotic endeavor “. The story ended in tragedy corrala one morning in the old Italian balconies stored sentenced to death for progress ended in flames. “You never knew who caused it, say it could have been a builder or the government itself,” says Nobel.

Crazy balconies is the third play Vargas Llosa takes the stage after the Spanish La Chunga and Kathie and hippo . A dramatic rescue work continued from the hispanoperuano novelist who has forced him to relive one of his passions of youth. “The theater is not on the books for years and so I was very frustrated with my play.” A dramatic corpus now climbing scene faces verdict over time. The nobel ensures that overcomes the temptation to redo or touch up text: “I have thought, but no, I think that ultimately the effect could be more destructive”

Jose Sacristan characterized as Aldo Brunelli.

Directed by Gustavo Tambascio, the play revolves around a topic ageless and even topical: dreaming and delirium of a man condemned to marginalization for his defense of tradition and beauty man. “It’s one of the most difficult roles I’ve read,” said the director of the assembly. “But it solves Pepe fantastically.” To Tambascio, who directed a Sacristan in Man of La Mancha, the “enigmatic” Vargas Llosa theater opens up different ways of creation and expression.

those paths work of its protagonist, which is based on the text and just needed a conversation with the author to assault the old dreamer Brunelli Aldo stands

Actor and author known for years. ” Mario and I met in the seventies in Santo Domingo. Paramount did for one Pantoja and the vistadoras , a blockbuster with Katy Jurado. I remember the nights with him talking about literature and cinema. He told me about Octavio Paz and I to him [Rouben] Mamoulian. Also remember that the scrolls came from Godfather II, which then produced the Paramount. “

The reunion in Madrid requires them to look back, but mostly optimistic peek overdue balconies of old Lima. “I always thought to embody Pepe Sexton Professor Brunelli. He’s done a reading of the play and the character that went really matches with the idea that I had to write it. His recreation is simply wonderful “

” I come from Sancho Panza “

The Goya for best actor that managed almost a year ago by The dead and be happy Javier Rebollo, devoted to a performer who has been through all tracks in the Spanish cinema: the local cinema the auteur, an actor SUV that ended up being a figure of unusual genius, able to deal with the same skill in experimental cinema and shopping.

But surely who want to thoroughly enjoy the talent of Jose Sacristan (Chinchon, 1937) knows that the theater is the place. Al Cervantes world came up with the popular musical Man of La Mancha, but two years ago, with I am Don Quixote the playwright José Ramón Fernández, was definitely put on the skin of the character of characters. Yesterday, Mario Vargas Llosa pointed out that Don Quixote is not a classic, “It is now quite novel and we must always learn. Cervantes, a man who suffered deeply, which failed in everything, gave us a work in which there is a hint of resentment or grudge, it’s all a celebration of life. “

And a song to goodness, something that moves the actor Sacristan. That goodness he discovers in his new character. “Like onto that stage to defend principles, denouncing many atrocities committed and impunity”

But do not you feel a Sacristan Quixote, but the lineage of his faithful squire. “I Quijote? No, I come from Sancho Panza and a great honor. I come from farmers. When I discovered the cinema in my town was like when the girls saw the Virgin Lourdes. I come from a place where all were mills and you see, we’re here. Chinchon I come from a land of peasants, and would not know take a step without a donkey. So I, Quixote aspiration, never forget what he said Uncle Thomas, the first thing is before “