{"id":1206,"date":"2020-03-20T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2020-03-20T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:17:18","slug":"multi-discipline-tribute-to-manrique-review-by-norman-warwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/multi-discipline-tribute-to-manrique-review-by-norman-warwick\/","title":{"rendered":"MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRIBUTE TO MANRIQUE: review by Norman Warwick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

C\u00e9sar Manrique; Rojo, Negro, Blanco.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teatro Tias, March 2020 Review.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe evening  Friday of 6th<\/sup>\nMarch 2020\nwe had\ndecided that over this weekend, we would visit the first two of\nseveral performance we had\npreviewed in a short list of \u00b4Treats In Tias\u00b4 that were to be delivered over\nthe coming month. The first two events on that list have suddenly been and\ngone, and the rest have been cancelled or postponed, of course. We learned\nquite a few things from the two performances we did see, though, including the\nfact that we were absolutely right to call them treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have\nalso learned that although several other good restaurants are available in\nTias, there is one that there at least a couple of restaurants in Tias that will\nlend themselves to a pre-show meal when the cultural agenda restarts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\nto the advertising poster for C\u00e9sar Manrique; Rojo, Negro, Blanco, the show was\nscheduled to start at 8.00 pm and might run until around 10.00. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Kitchen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We opted, then, for the modern design of The Kitchen, British owned and much catering to British tastes, for a meal before the show. The guys and girls here at The Kitchen are a friendly bunch and the d\u00e9cor is as tasteful as the food. It\u00b4s on the right hand side of the main double drag as you drive down through the town towards Arrecife. The goats\u00b4 cheese with honey salad was a special starter for the day and was fantastic in its presentation and was amazingly moist and tasteful,\u2026 and filling. How I managed my Texas pizza, with its beautiful thin crust base overlapping the sides of my huge plate I\u00b4m not sure and it took some effort to force down what was not so much a portion as a week\u00b4s supply of fluffy bread and butter pudding and custard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fiery Fred
statue in Skipton<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My wife Dee caught the cod and chips and, (there can be no greater praise) opined that these were even better than the fish and chips for which we used to make a weekly eighty mile round trip in the UK from Rochdale to Skipton. We would buy one of each twice at Bizzie Lizzie\u00b4s chippie by the canal, where I would devour mine, from the paper, beside the thrilling statue of Freddie Truman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets were free on the theatre door for the production we then saw at Teatro Tias .. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a\nhundred people, mostly town residents it seemed, took advantage of the offer to\nsee a performance that had already been delivered as two creative arts\nworkshops earlier in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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poster for event<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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C\u00e9sar Manrique; Rojo, Negro, Blanco, featured Cristina Temprano and Ayoze Rodriguez in a biographical performance adaptation of Manrique\u00b4s life. Nothing could have prepared us for such a delightful, informative and thought-provoking presentation. This was a family audience in which adults chuckled at some wry artistic observations and even young children giggled out loud at the strange chemistry between the wonder-struck, optimistic and joyous girl and the somewhat more reserved and world-weary guy she falls into conversation with when she finds an object on the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Triumphantly,\nshe demonstrates all the things she could do with the bit of old wood she has\npicked up. In her imagination, and in her hands, it becomes a golf club, a\nloofah, a tennis racket, an eating implement, a paint brush, and of course, a\nguitar, amongst a dozen or so other uses that she mimes with great glee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given\nthat I don\u00b4t understand the Spanish Language if anybody strings together\nsentences of more than two words, it speaks much of the skill of the two actors\nthat I was nevertheless able to make some semblance of sense of the narrative\nthat followed. The play is a vehicle for telling something of the biography of\nCesar Manrique and celebrating his gifts to the island (and the gifts the\nisland gave him!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mise en Scene<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Using another objet trouv\u00e9 (that could have been a traffic cone) from the mise en scene as a megaphone, Cristina jumped over rows of seats in the stalls to enthuse the audience to roar their support for the arts, and for the next forty five minutes these two musicians (he on the keyboards and she on piano accordion) used every trick in the artists\u00b4 skills set to deliver an oft told story in a new and exciting way. A sports journalist once wrote of footballer Wayne Rooney that \u00b4he turned and shot with rehearsed spontaneity.\u00b4 That seemed so true of these two actors here, as well. They were word perfect in their delivery of what sounded more like every day shared conversation than the script of a play, and they perfectly employed the mise en scene in various engaging ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was\nshadow poetry to describe the relationship between Cesar Manrique and his\nfather when the young artist decided to follow the arts as a career and to move\nto New York to become part of that city\u00b4s burgeoning arts scene. Cristina even\ndelivered a little dance in her \u00b4vagabond shoes\u00b4 to remind us how much Manrique\nwanted to be a part of it; of New York, New York. She had become, or turned\nherself into, or had adopted the ethos of, Manrique so much that Ayoze was\ncalling her Cesar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nwere sophisticated back-lit sandboxes that enabled her to illustrate how\nManrique arranged his deceptively simple artistic logos of Lanzarote when he\nreturned to the island, and we even learned how it was the very enormity of New\nYork with its grey skyscraper shadows that made him so determined to create the\nsun-lit whiteness of the low buildings we now associate with the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the artists take a bow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We have witnessed many marvellous arts events in the five years we have lived on Lanzarote but rarely have we seen two actors take their subject and their script by the scruff of the neck and wring from it every drop of humour and emotion. Ayoze and Cristina demonstrated their mastery of a number of arts techniques in a way that drew a standing ovation that seemed to somewhat surprise them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are\nartists who not only perform superbly on stage, but who also deliver workshops\nto the next generation. The the arts offer on Lanzarote, and the positive\nattitudes to life it engenders, will need skilled artists like these to carry\nus forward when the lights come on again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spoke\nbriefly with Cristina after the show and we are trying to arrange yet another\nexclusive all across the arts interview for Lanzarote Information and our\nSidetracks and Detours blog, with an artist we are sure will have a fascinating\nlife story to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, look\nout for that interview, too. It might take a while to put together, as at the\nmoment we all seem to have rather a lot on our mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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