Electra by Sophocles
Pílades Teatro

  21 Feb
  19:30 h
  18 y 20€
MUN Theatre

The MUN is staging this reinterpretation of the Greek classic by director Fernanda Orazi, which has won awards such as the MAX Award 2024 (Best Newcomer Show), the Godot Award 2023 (Best Direction) and the MAX Award 2024 (Best Version).

"That which would make life unlivable, that from which we must flee as soon as possible, the theater wants it. Like a hand holding a fire just to see it, it affirms it, seeks it and re-creates it. The theater drinks, eats and reproduces itself in what we discard and banish as impossible to carry out in "real life". Electra is the trajectory of a sustained flame that challenges its own and the performance not to drop the fire and to raise the stakes of the theater as far as necessary. We have said Yes to this Electra and to the adventure of tackling a Greek tragedy that is also, for us, dramatic beings, the unactuable. With a sustained Yes we have come this far to throw this promise into the arena of the theater in which, as in tragedy, not everything is in our hands". In the words of director Fernanda Orazi.

A tragedy of yesteryear made today...

"Perhaps what is classic about a classic is that capacity to donate an experience that is always new and different to the extent that we do not relate to it as something already known. It doesn't matter what classic we are talking about, what doesn't matter is whether our intention is to conquer it with our prejudices or to get to know it."
Fernanda Orazi

ARTISTIC FILE

Electra by Sophocles

Version: Fernanda Orazi from a translation by José Velasco y García

Director: Fernanda Orazi

Cast: Carmen Angulo, Javier Ballesteros, Leticia Etala, Juan Paños

Lighting: David Picazo

Original music and sound space: Javier Ntaca

Photography and video: Luz Soria

A production of Pílades Teatro

Acknowledgements: Teatro de La Abadía, Laura Klein, La Imaginaria

FERNANDA ORAZI

Argentine actress, director and teacher. She currently lives in Madrid. She has worked with Pablo Messiez in ten plays in the last eleven years, the last one Los Gestos, premiered at the Centro Dramático Nacional and later toured. She has also worked as an actress in plays directed by Pablo Remón, the latest Doña Rosita Anotada, or in plays by Denise Despeyroux, Ernesto Caballero, Pascal Rambert, Carlos Marquerie, or Claudia Faci, among others.

As a director she premiered her first piece in 2003, in Buenos Aires, Teo con Julia. In 2010 she premiered Susana en el agua y con la boca abierta for the Festival de Otoño de Madrid, in 2012 El Rumor Analógico de las Cosas at Cuarta Pared, and in December 2013, she premiered El Futuro at Teatro del Barrio in Madrid. Then, in 2017 he premiered Encarnación at El Umbral de Primavera in Madrid.

In 2023 he won the Godot Award for Best Direction for this Electra, a show that was also a finalist in the categories of Best Show and Best Cast. And in 2024 he won two MAX Awards for this work: Best Newcomer Show and Best Version or Adaptation of a Play.

Since 1995 he has been working and researching on performance procedures, both in pedagogical contexts, as well as in laboratory and creative processes.

CARMEN ANGULO 

Actress and dancer. Graduated in Classical Dance at the Conservatory and graduated in Literature and Language from the Universidad Nacional a Distancia (UNED). She made her professional debut with the company of Antonio Márquez at the opening of the Teatro Real de la Ópera de Madrid in 1997 with El sombrero de tres picos by Antonio Ruiz Soler. Throughout his professional career he has been part of the companies of Antonio Márquez, Joaquín Cortés, Luis Ortega, Rafael Amargo, Rafael Aguilar, Danzadas, Arrieritos Flamenco, Estévez/Paños y compañía, Rojas y Rodríguez, Dançem, Enclave español, Princesa cangrejo dance company, Flamencos en route, Losdedae, Cía Rafaela Carrasco or Emilio Ochando Y cía, among others.

He has worked in several productions for the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid with stage directors such as Luis Olmos, Calixto Bieito, Jesús Castejón, Amelia Ochandiano, Emilio Sagi, Graham Vick or Gustavo Tambascio at the Teatro Real de la Ópera de Madrid.

As a dancer and actress she has performed in several shows and has received several awards.

JAVIER BALLESTEROS 

Actor. Trained with Juan Carlos Corazza, Fernanda Orazi, Pablo Messiez, Manuel Morón, Hernán Gené and Fernando Piernas, among others, this actor from Madrid has participated in series such as Historias para no dormir, Sin identidad, Apaches, La Zona, Justo antes de Cristo, Hospital Central, La pecera de Eva, and in the feature films Sordo by Alfonso Cortés Cavanillas and Como la Espuma, by Roberto Pérez-Toledo. In 2018 he won the award for Best Actor at Notodofilmfest for the short film Matar, where he also signs the screenplay and direction.

In theater he participates in La Ola by Marc Montserrat Drukker at CDN Teatro Valle-Inclán, Las Canciones by Pablo Messiez at Teatro Pavón Kamikaze, La incertidumbre by Pablo Remón at María Guerrero, Que no by Jesús Cracio or Cluster by Juan Ceacero and the company Exlímite at Naves del Matadero. He has worked as an actor in Fernanda Orazi's plays Encarnación, El Futuro and El rumor analógico de las cosas. He is also assistant director of Fernanda Orazi in El rumor analógico de las cosas and in Cuatro Confesiones by Bárbara Santa-Cruz.

Her interest in stage direction led her in 2016 to form the company MUJER EN OBRAS, where she also writes. In 2023 she wins the Max Award for Best New Author for Cucaracha con paisaje de fondo, a production that also wins the Max Award for Best New Show.

LETICIA ETALA

Actress. Graduated in Dramatic Art at ESAD in Torrelodones, Madrid. In 2007, after finishing her last course, she continued her training outside Spain: New York Film Academy (New York), École Jacques Lecoq (Paris) and at El excéntrico de la 18º (Buenos Aires). Upon his return to Madrid he continues his training with different active artists, among which Fernanda Orazi stands out. 

Among his most outstanding works in theater are: La Caja directed by Gabriel Olivares, Medea directed by José Carlos Plaza, Encarnación directed by Fernanda Orazi, or Pasión por Lorca by Consuelo Trujillo. He is currently part of the cast of the company Exlímite with the plays Cluster and Ficciones directed by Juan Ceacero.

In films, highlights include Solo by Hugo Stuven and Yucatán by Daniel Monzón. And in television: Seis Hermanas, as Bruna, for Televisión Española; El Secreto de Puente Viejo, with the character of Luisa Tavares, also for Televisión Española; and in Las Chicas del Cable, with the character of Rosario, for Netflix.

JUAN PAÑOS

Actor. He began training and working as a magician from the age of twelve and learned about theater from the clown, with Hernán Gené and Gabriel Chamé. He later graduated as an actor at the Theater School of Mar Navarro and Andrés Hernández following the pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq's Physical Theater, where he also learns singing and music. In 2016 he enters the Teatro de la Abadía in Madrid and there he addresses, above all, the word work with Ernesto Arias, Vicente Fuentes or José Luis Gómez. At the same time she completes her theatrical training with professionals such as Carles Alfaro, Heidi Steinhardt, Fernanda Orazi, Sergio Blanco, or José Troncoso. 

As an actor, his latest work has been in María Luisa by Juan Mayorga for Teatro de La Abadía. And in his career stand out La cabeza del dragón by Valle-Inclán directed by Lucía Miranda in 2022, or MAN UP and La distancia in 2019 and 2020, both by Andrea Jiménez and Noemi Rodríguez (of Teatro en Vilo); all the previous ones for the Centro Dramático Nacional. Also El Sueño de la Vida in 2019, by Alberto Conejero and Federico García Lorca directed by Lluís Pasqual at Teatro Español; or in Dos nuevos entremeses, "nunca representados" in 2017, by Miguel de Cervantes, directed by Ernesto Arias for Teatro de la Abadía. In addition to these shows, he has worked in others under the direction of José Luis Gómez, Carl Fillion, Hernán Gené, Tomás Cabané, Inma Nieto, Raúl Cortés, María Díaz Megías, Fran Núñez or Jorge Picó. 

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