with a social and claiming theme,
surprised the spectators, stirring
consciences, without losing the
freshness, the sense of humor, the
showiness and the spectacularity.
In short, a quality of theatrical
writing at the highest level in
the innovative modality of living
theatrical chess. José Erades
was in charge of the general
coordination and Rafael Andarias
Estevan, director of Living Chess,
directed it.
(The
LIVING A
JEDREZ
DE XÀBIA can be defined as “a
story told through a theatrical
performance,
played
by
schoolchildren, based on a game
of chess.” In reality, the spectator
attends more to a play than to the
contemplation of development of
a game, in such a way that it is not
necessary to know how to play
chess to understand and enjoy
representation.
This initiative takes elements
of classical theater and living
chess, emerging a new theatrical
modality called “living theatrical
chess”.
The game that served as the basis
for the representation was V.
Sanduleac-C. Stroe, played in the
Romanian town of Timisoara in
1999.
The work started with the
appearance of Alicia, a happy girl
who read and imagined stories
with her parents, but when she got
older she lost interest in reading,
avoiding relationships with her
parents.
He tried to fit into the institute
where he witnesses a situation of
bullying to one of his classmates.
Then, the world of wonders with
its symbols and archetypes (the
Jungian universe) opened before
it to distort reality.