The double face having the moral view through the female figure is the centerpiece of the work La Marquise de Sade, who started season in the Forum Grotto Conaculta Hellenic Cultural Center, the night of Thursday February 5.
Various archetypes as loyalty, morality, submission and perversion are represented by six actresses, with the direction of the Chilean Juan José Gómez Olavarrieta.
Renée, wife of the Marquis de Sade, try to get him out of prison with the help of his mother, who does not explain how a girl from a middle class background and high moral wants to be next to the icon of sadism.
The strange union of two antithetical beings unleashes different reflections among a group of women who narrate practices Marquis, who made his standard of debauchery, while Renée pays obedience and indulgence until a series of reflections is carried away from him.
Throughout the plot and using powerful and poetic dialogues, the mysteries of the human condition for understanding why Madame de Sade explores the Marquis leaves right at the moment it is released after 12 years in prison.
So, Madame de Sade embodies marital fidelity; his mother, Madame de Montreuil, social order and morality; Anne, sister of the Marquise, lack of principles; Madame de Simiane, religion; Madame de Saint-Fond carnal desires, and Charlotte, the maid, the people.
Madame de Sade, Madame de Montreuil and Anne are historical figures, while Madame de Saint-Fond, Madame de Simiane and Charlotte are imaginary characters of Japanese author.
Written by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), translated from Japanese into Spanish by Kenryo Hara, the work exposes the struggle between the powers of the Church, the State and the influence of rich against poor, which makes it very effective to despite being located in the period of the French Revolution.
It also exposes the Japanese poetic criticizing a society of appearances, as happened in France in the eighteenth century, and even makes references to the hardships that still have women.
The cast involved: Pilar Couto, Veronica Contreras, Paula Comaduran, Karla Reyes, Marcela Rigoletti and Light Valmen.
The proposal stage performance bet acting so just a chandelier and a small toilet is seen to offer viewers the context of the time, coupled with the use of wigs and called «dressed to the French» by the actresses.
The Marquise de Sade offer functions on Thursdays at 20:30 pm until April 16 at the Forum Grotto Conaculta Hellenic Cultural Center located in Av. Revolución No. 1500 col. Guadalupe Inn. Locations: $ 200.
