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Barcelona: Revisiting the Classics
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Barcelona: Revisiting the Classics
¡Ay Carmela! is back (although the visibility the play has enjoyed since its premiere twenty years ago makes you question if it ever went away). The first production featured the Lecoq- and Grotowski-trained actor José Luis Gómez in the role of the hapless vaudeville entertainer Paulino, while the beguiling Veronica Forqué, then one of Pedro Almodóvar's favorite performers, played the feisty Carmela. Gómez also directed the production with a close attention to creating a stage world that was able to conjure the slightly tawdry aura of the music hall. Considering it two decades on I remember the impeccable timing of the vaudeville numbers, the sexual ...
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