In 2003, premiered at the Degollado Theater of Guadalajara a multidisciplinary show based on the prose poem entitled The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the English poet William Blake (1757-1827). Rarely has the work of this poet was taken to an area stage, due to the lack of drama in his literary production, the conceptual depth of his work and his philosophy metaphorical thickness. But the lush richness of thought Blake is a temptation stage and a creative challenge that is not lacking, despite its difficulty, who will accept it. With the support of the University of Guadalajara, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1791) achieved proposal will cast in the form of avant-garde and thoughtful actors Arianne Pellicer (wife of the late Jorge Reyes), Tina and Mark Bacuzzi French, with music Jorge Reyes, directed by Antonio Castro and Monica Raya scenery and Alejandro Colunga. This work represents an invitation yokes to unleash the imagination and freedom and tries to bring the viewer into the intense and controversial thought of Blake.
After a short but successful season at the Teatro Degollado, this staging was presented last October at the National Arts Centre. Now, after a few months in detention, was revived at the Teatro de la Ciudad.
A hymn to freedom
Two of its creators, Arianne Pellicer and Jorge Reyes, we discussed the matter of assembly.
- What is the show?
Jorge Reyes: It is a memorable journey through the visions of William Blake that is a hymn to freedom. Is a valid philosophy against religious fundamentalism, fanaticism and gaffes.
- How do you combine an author of the late eighteenth century with a production so cutting edge? Arianne Pellicer
: Blake is modern and lived ahead of his time, so the show went well. Soak was the result of his work, close your eyes, improvise and try to call it. It's like a reinterpretation of his work led to the discipline of every one of us.
- How is the music composed for this show?
JR: Has parts doom, gothic, dark and electronic. The music is conceived like the soundtrack to a movie, there are incidental sounds, effects and overriding themes.
-The music of The Proverbs of Hell, with which you've just been awarded at the International Festival of radio art, is part of this work?
JR: Proverbs of Hell is inspired by the music I made for The Marriage of Heaven and Hell but reworked, modified and adapted to make a radio art. The music that won the prize is a sound altar, which was filed on November 2 in Radio Education, and is dedicated to all war dead. The sounds are from the war in Kosovo and the Middle East.
- From which perspective is this war in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?
JR: Blake mentioned holy wars and talk about the situation in which a culture seeks to impose his god because he believes it is better than the others. Then triggers a series of wars that are trying to impose an absolute truth. It is practically what is happening today in the Middle East, Iraq, Israel and Palestine. Wars systematic product of stubbornness, fanaticism and unilateral interpretation of things.
Good and bad
-Arianne, your character appears as the devil and becomes Blake, what is this transformation?
AP: Blake is a devil.
JR: But is not the moral as shown by Christianity. This embodies the creativity, the driving energy and vitality.
AP: It's a devil who says that should not be suppressed at the creative, emotional and sexual. For him, sexual energy is also a spiritual, soul and body are not separate.
JR: While the angel is the conservative, not taking chances. Just believe in what he teaches systematic logic and that takes it as dogma. The discussion between them does not represent evil as sin and punishment and reward good to enter paradise. Here the devil tries to convince the angel that lives in a very limited and repressed.
- What is making the experience of this show?
AP: As an actress is wonderful to say the texts.
JR: The fact that the public will come forward and get excited with Blake's work for me is an achievement. And as a musician has given me the opportunity to do something different than what I usually do, something more gothic and dark. MARIANA
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