Towards Hyperdramatic Theatre (Deepening the Stage) was a course by Vincent Roumagnac during which we examined the transformations of the notion of stage in the face of climatic and anthropo-technological mutations of the 21st century. Vincent invited us to conceptualize and realize a “hyperdramatic” scenic prototype, and asked us to embed in our prototypes one figure or text from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Hamlet, or Midsummer Night’s Dream. The outcomes were presented on August 24th & 26th 2019 at the Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki.
I picked Titania’s monologue in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act II, Scene 1), and worked in two locations inside the Theatre Academy (Black Box 532 and Staircase A). My prototype also included Palo Santo, a video of a tree growing inside a house in Babahoyo (Ecuador), two floorplans from the building, a poem by Rafael Alberti, and a postcard.
Blindspot.
By Daniela Pascual Esparza
“Blindspot results from a week-long conversation with Vincent Roumagnac. It is also the prototype of a simple gesture, one that would like to avoid panic through the making of passages between different beings, places, and temporalities. You will find in the floor plan a hint of where to meet them.” D.P.E.
La eternidad bien pudiera
ser un río solamente,
ser un caballo olvidado
y el zureo
de una paloma perdida.
Balada de lo que el viento dijo, Rafael Alberti (1954)
Eternity may well
be only a river,
be a forgotten horse
and the cooing
of a lost dove.
The Ballad of what the wind said, Rafael Alberti (1954)
Daniela Pascual 