An interview with the theatre director Víctor Arrojo about the staging of Los establos de Su Majestad

Authors

Keywords:

theatre in Mendoza, theatre direction, directing dramaturgy, creative process, Víctor Arrojo

Abstract

Víctor Arrojo, a renowned theatre director and teacher from Mendoza who has directed Grupo Cajamarca for the past forty years, won a competition at Teatro Nacional Cervantes in 2023 with a project to stage Los establos de Su Majestad, by Fernando Lorenzo and Alberto Rodríguez hijo, adapted by Sonnia De Monte in 2010. This interview was conducted in May 2024 and focuses on Arrojo’s creative process prior to the premiere, especially on issues related to his directorial dramaturgy, his poetics of staging and his work with actresses and actors.

Author Biography

Luis Emilio Abraham, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Luis Emilio Abraham holds a PhD in Modern Literature from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina), where he is a full professor and teaches Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature, Didactics of Literature, Literary Theory and Semiotics. He holds a Master's degree in Hispanic Philology from the CSIC. He has received scholarships from the Carolina Foundation and CONICET. As a researcher, he has devoted himself mainly to literary theory, theatrical theory and current theater in Spanish. In addition to numerous articles and contributions to collective books, he has published Escenas que sostienen mundos. Mímesis y modelos de ficción en el teatro (Madrid, CSIC, Anejos de Revista de Literatura, 2008) and has coordinated the volume Análisis de la dramaturgia argentina actual (Madrid: Antígona, 2015), directed by José Luis García Barrientos. He is a member of the International Network of Latin American and European Theater Researchers (RIITLE), the Argentine Association of Hispanists and the Group of Studies on Literary Criticism. He is director and scientific editor of the Boletín GEC. He currently directs a research project at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo that studies literary reading based on empirical methodologies: Literary reading in educational contexts: emotions, mental imagery, socio-cognition.

References

Arrojo, V. (2015). El director teatral ¿es o se hace? Procedimientos para la puesta en escena. Instituto Nacional del Teatro. https://inteatro.ar/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/El-director-teatral-es-o-se-hace.pdf

Los establos de Su Majestad (s.f.). Teatro Nacional Cervantes. https://www.teatrocervantes.gob.ar/obra/los-establos-de-su-majestad/

Ficha técnica del espectáculo

Los establos de Su Majestad (2023). [Obra de teatro]. Estreno: 7 de setiembre de 2023. Entidades organizadoras y financiadoras: Teatro Nacional Cervantes y Teatro Independencia. Mendoza, Teatro Independencia.

Dramaturgia: F. Lorenzo y A. Rodríguez (hijo) (texto original de 1963), S. De Monte (versión de 2010), V. Arrojo (nueva adaptación sobre la versión de 2010). Dirección: V. Arrojo. Elenco: S. Viggiani, C. Racconto, F. Mancuso, D. Encinas, M. González, P. Díaz. Diseño audiovisual: E. Rodríguez. Producción audiovisual: A. Barrera. Diseño y producción musical: Aballay&Brachetta. Diseño y realización de vestuario: M. Mengarelli. Diseño de iluminación: M. Delgado. Diseño y realización escenográfica: A. Quiroga. Auxiliar en escenografía: E. Hipólito. Asistencia de dirección: D. Maya. Producción local: S. N. Arrojo. Equipo de producción del TNC Federal: M. Libera, P. Bontas, M. Lavini, F. Sampedro, E. Iturralde. Fotografía: G. Gorrini.

Published

24-07-2024

How to Cite

Abraham, L. E. (2024). An interview with the theatre director Víctor Arrojo about the staging of Los establos de Su Majestad. Boletín GEC, (33), 283–292. Retrieved from https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/boletingec/article/view/7905