From the neighborhood to the theater, to die of laughter

AAlejandro Lalaleo and Daniel Enríquez they premiere, this Wednesday, April 14, a different comedy. The same staging, but presented in three rooms of the Uio Microtheater, in the north of the capital.

It is the story of two friends who try – unsuccessfully – to find a girlfriend. However, along the way they realize that they don’t even know how to flirt.

The actor Diego Ulloa is one of the protagonists of ‘Coaching to grab’ and, although in real life he is far from being a ‘neighborhood hunk’, the two weeks of rehearsals have led him to discover more than 30 ways to use the word millet: mijín, mijardín, mijimán …

“This has been a challenge accents and slang, especially because I’m from Cuenca ”, he says.

To die of laughter

Even so, during the montage he had a lot of fun playing his character alongside his fellow cast members: Lorena Robalino, María Karla Gómez and Raúl Santana.

Since the script came into the hands of Lorena, the actress knew that it would be a play for “Kill oneself with laughter.”

She is the one in charge of putting the touch ‘guayaco’ to the Quito work. She plays a ‘life coach’ and author of the best-selling book ‘The ABC of love’. His goal is to train the boys in conquest techniques. “She speaks with that language of coaching, but sometimes she loses her character and her true way of being comes out,” she reveals. A chestnut hair It gives the perfect touch to the role with which he claims to have nothing in common.

Behind the work there is a whole process of investigation, it specifies Daniel Enriquez, who has drenched himself Coach terms and neighborhood slang to make the theatrical experience real.

“They are very neighborhood characters, who want flirt the cyber girl ... It is similar to reality, but not crude ”, explains the director.

They had to reinvent themselves

Although the public response has been astonishing since the Uio Microteatro reopened its doors last October, Alejandro Lalaleo He confesses that it has been a challenge to keep the activity going. They have had to reinvent themselves.

One of the strategies they opted for was the implementation of a plastic screen that divides the actors from the public. “We want to feel that the theater is a safe place… When that document of the places with the most exposure was issued (on a scale of 1 to 10) the theater was ranked 8, next to the gyms, and it is not like that ”, Lalaleo describes.

That is why they have intensified biosecurity measures so that the spectators are calm during the functions.

And all these measures have been successful. In the six months they are working, with a capacity reduced to 14 people, they have not had a single contagion.

The coronavirus testing constantly applied to actors have also been a way of keeping the site virus-free. “During the trials use mask, the actors are very careful and although we have learned from the virus we have not lowered our guard ”, adds Lalaleo

THE DATA

The actress Lorena Robalino confesses that it is not a lot of “hugs”, but that the pandemic has given her the possibility of expressing her affection to the public in another way.