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Suddenly he hands over the command to the public at the Navarra Theater School

What will happen this Thursday and Friday on the stage of the Navarra School of Theater (ENT) is something that nobody knows. It is known how it will begin, that part could fit in what is understood by theater, but that will only be an excuse for what comes next. At that start, a character will receive the audience and tell them a story, however at a certain point there will be an event – a dream, a blow or something that breaks the narrative – and the show will move to a symbolic world related to toys. From then on, not even those who are going to climb the tables of the School know what will happen. The work will already be in the hands of the public. At that moment the catch will start, a kind of oral combat or stage cockfight, in which two pairs of interpreters characterized as toys will face each other to see who improvises better. The presenter will put them in trouble and pass on the audience’s cues for them to create their stories. In addition, it will be the audience who decides which couple wins. Then the two members of that winning duo will face each other.-

‘Broken Sack. The match ‘ It is the title of the work and the only thing that will be the same every day, along with a duration of approximately 80 minutes. Not even the cast will be the same, since they rotate and six of the nine members of the group will go on stage each time.

IMPROVISATION IN NAVARRE

off the cuff is the first and only stable company of theatrical improvisation or improper that it is created in Navarra, something that has taken root in other places for years. Jamming, one of the pioneers in the Madrid scene, for example, has been filling theaters every weekend for eighteen years, and when she asks at the beginning of her show how many people have seen them before, there are many arms that are raised; What’s more, they ask who has seen them once, twice … and 30% claim to have gone to see them more than ten times, according to Carlos Rodríguez yesterday. It is the demonstration that it is a different show every night.

Rodríguez had been improvising in Logroño for fifteen years and in October, when he moved to Pamplona, ​​he asked in his circle if anyone wanted to do it here. People from the theater joined in and founded De Improviso in January 2021. “We created the group without knowing what was going to happen, in Spain it is very widespread but here there was no tradition,” he recalls. Today the company is made up of Xabier Artieda, Sandra Aguerri, Julio César Terrazas, Garazi San Martín, Sergio Salinas, Teresa Sarriguren, Pablo Cañete, Carlos Rodríguez, César Rodríguez-Moroy, Irene Criado and Imanol Sucino.

They began with some loose improvisations in a previous format that they presented on small stages and in the program ‘With feet in the clouds’ in Roncesvalles, where they made stops on a walk to create stories according to what the public told them. On those first occasions, the audience proposed the topics to them through small pieces of paper. “They challenge you,” admits Carlos Rodríguez. “They are also playwrights of the show,” he adds. “Maybe they tell you ‘bread and water’ and you have to create a story,” illustrates Garazi San Martín.

They began by meeting at the Casa de la Juventud de Pamplona, ​​in the facilities of the self-managed social center Plazara! and, since November 15, in a residence hall at the Navarra Theater School, of which many are alumni. “We put in all the hours we can,” says Garazi San Martín. They don’t rehearse, they train. “It looks like a sport, handball, for example; you rehearse pass passes and on match day you have the resources and techniques to play, ”explains Carlos Rodríguez. They also train theater techniques and discipline, since this is not a classic improvisation, but they have put initial dramaturgy around toys. “With that training we got to know each other very well and so we can play on stage,” says Sandra Aguerri.

‘Broken Sack. The catch ‘is a collective creation in which everyone does everything, from acting to dramaturgy. “We are super excited, we are very excited because it had not been done in Navarra,” says Sandra Aguerri, who points out that humor is one of its signs of identity. But jokes, no. They avoid jokes because they have tried it and find that they break history. “Comedy comes out of the situation itself,” explains Rodríguez. In addition, they put events or news of the day that work very well with the public, according to Pablo Cañete. “It’s a very beastly sensation of liveliness on stage,” says Sandra Aguerri. “It is a joy that they tell us’ but this is ready, right? Because some do not believe that we are capable of creating from nothing, at the moment,” says Rodríguez. “The mistake itself live, seeing ourselves in trouble at one point, is something that the public likes and gives richness to the show,” concludes Julio César Terrazas.

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