‘Serrar la horca o el cadalso’ was, in the first instance, a 180-page writing in pencil. Its author, Lopera Sánchez (Andrés Lopera Sánchez, screenwriter and producer), began to think about the idea of healing and revenge, represented by two friends who distance themselves and betray each other.
Someone I love very much, someone very close, is an impressive healer
“It was a very calm construction that was developed during many sessions of what I call automatic writing”, says the author, a process that begins with “picking up the pen, ‘thinking’ with it for 30 minutes and making three handwritten pages around it. of some idea, concept or story that you are building. I do it once, twice, three times a day”, he says.
The result is a montage of a little over an hour that can be seen at the Teatro Libre del Centro until November 6an experience that has a bit to do with the supernatural, something that for the author is nothing more than a “marketing trick in which we have lived since the beginning of time, and that, basically, is what is sheltered within of what is beyond our comprehension as rational beings.”
But as an artist (he is the scriptwriter of the documentary ‘Vallenato: del Valle de Upar al mundo’ and the series ‘Contemporary Adult’, among many others), he is very sensitive and believes, for example, in healing: “Someone I love very, very close, is an impressive healer; I have seen changes and transformations in human beings that exceed our understanding: superhuman events. All day and every day for me is a supernatural event, a miracle: I walk through life, I live in this reality that surpasses me, in which I walk and write, and in which I discover, see and feel things that I don’t understand, and that I love, they fascinate me”.
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These are the words of a man who, looking into his resume, graduated as a business administrator at Eafit, in Medellínwhere he founded his film club, and worked in the financial sector for eight years until he gave up the numbers and got caught up in the stories.
Sawing the gallows or the scaffold speaks of Barnat, a man who has the gift of healing, but putting it into practice affects his physical and mental health.
Aresh is his best friend and supports him in the decision to give up his gift of healing. But one day, Aresh’s mom gets sick and Barnat refuses to cure her.
The friends break their bond, as Aresh feels betrayed. They walk away. Many years later, the latter knows that he has a terminal illness and his only desire is to take revenge. They see each other again and everything walks between manipulation and memories.
The relationship of being with illness and death, social behaviors, mental health, loneliness, success and spirituality are some of the themes that are seen in the montagethrough the actors Juan Pablo Acosta, Mónica Giraldo and Esmeralda Acosta, under the direction of Martha Leal, a drama teacher with more than 30 years of experience as an actress and who is now leading a play.
Because, among other things, When Lopera Sánchez was writing the play, Leal told her that there was a call for theatrical productions and that she wanted to direct. They did not win, but those 180 pages written in pencil were organized and reorganized for five days (time they had to send their proposal) and thus Serrar the gallows or the scaffold was born with names and surnames.
For its author, the work is “pure magic, written in capital letters, because when the concepts of revenge and healing are looked at and evaluated through the vision of the common good, the particular good or the personal good, movements arise within friendship to be friends, then not to be friends and then to meet again… So it’s a hard story because, in addition to all this, there are other concepts present within the work: loyalty, on the one hand, and the fear of death, on the other, and that strange relationship we have with life”.
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After five written and produced feature film scripts, the same number of documentaries, four television series and several web series, “this is my second written play and the first that I have brought to the stage.” And of which he is very proud.
Where and when?
Until November 6. Friday and Saturday, 7:30 pm Sunday, 5 pm Teatro Libre del Centro. 12B Street No. 2-44, Bogotá. Tickets: entralo.com and theater box office.
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