Actress Luisina Quarleri has provided us another great behind the scene perspective!

Can´t believe opening day has finally come...and gone! We´ve
officially started our run, and with our second show already under our
belt a lot of positive feedback has already started to come our way:
this past weekend we had not one, but two rave reviews in the Buenos
Aires Herald. I´m so happy to be part of this production and to be
working with such incredible people that have made this whole process
so rewarding.

Let´s talk, for a second, about the incredible amount of concentration
and energy it takes to act on a stage. You need to be 100% focused on
what´s going on, tuned in to the fullest and extremely sensitive and
open to any and all connections with your fellow actors, while
simultaneously completely turned off to any and all connections with
your audience that might break the imaginary fourth wall (regardless
of how many times someone coughs or a cell phone rings), and at the
same time, be able to absorb all that glorious extra energy that
having a real live audience gifts you, that extra umph that comes from
all those people there to watch you, waiting to be entertained, moved
to tears or laughter, enthralled in someone else´s world (real or not)
that isn´t their own. To have those people willingly give us their
time and attention is so humbling. It´s a great gift to be an actor,
and to have the opportunity to do theater in Buenos Aires, the city
where I was born but never really got to experience, is one of the
happiest turns of events that have popped up in my artistic life so
far.

One of the craziest and best things about the theater is that is
always live, and no one moment can be repeated exactly the same way.
That´s what it makes it so real, so exciting, you could even say
dangerous in a way. There´s no chance of a do-over, a second take, a
let´s-try-that-again and fix that mistake....no. You get distracted,
you miss a line, you just have to keep going and hope you find your
way back again. A former teacher of mine once compared it to boxing:
you have to pay attention and react to every blow, every jab, every
touch, and if you miss one or you get hit, then too bad...no time to
think about it, just keep on going or you get knocked down. This was
particularly true for me this past week, when I had a small wardrobe
malfunction and was momentarily thrown off in the middle of my scene,
unable to keep myself engaged in what was going on with David (aka
Tom) because my mind was elsewhere. In those precious seconds in which
I considered my options, which to me felt like hours, I figured I had
two choices: a) run off stage and therefore likely sabotage the scene
and probably the play or b) force myself to focus and just.keep.going.

This is easier said than done, but I like to think I did an okay job
at it. And, when it was all over, I had to remind myself that this is
the theater! Anything can happen! That´s what´s so exciting!!! And,
also, to not beat myself up after the fight. After all, I had already
performed in my boxing match that night. 

Luisina 


Here is also our review on Buenos Aires Herald on Saturday 24th of September 2011. The bigger version for you to read is online on our Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/intrudersbuenosaires