Arden repeats in And the ship goes? a formula that has worked for a long time: comedy, coral, With live music (de Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, ABBA, Madonna…) and direct involvement of the public in the plot, in this case, in the role of colonists who accompanied the Founding Fathers in their colonization of the New World. We will meet them one by one when they appear before the captain to sign up for the ship that will take them to “virgin land.”: a narcoleptic judge, a half-baked soldier, a vehement suffragette, a reverend willing to instill the fear of God, a somewhat bohemian scientist, a very literate teacher and a duchess willing to start from scratch. These are the Founding Fathers of a future society to which they will have to provide structures, practical and symbolic, with the help of the public, the settlers: a name, a flag, a form of the state, rulers and political parties. Locked up on the high seas, they will begin to make decisions about the future state involved in controversies that are all too familiar to us.. The military, For example, hides behind freedom of expression to denigrate women, but he does not consider that said freedom prevails when the grievance is directed at the most powerful. Inevitably, the recent music of rappers accused of insulting the crown resonates in our ears. Stretching the stereotype to parody, The work laughs at patriotic feelings and nationalist symbols, and it makes us laugh when we recognize ourselves in characters of few principles who seek the shade of the tree that provides the most shelter.. Pure Arden. S.M.
Privacy
FROM THURSDAY 25 ON SUNDAY 28/6
The work lucidly explores the borders between the private and the public in an era marked by emotional overexposure..
