{"id":41673,"date":"2023-03-18T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/?p=41673"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:12:40","slug":"juan-echanove-directs-ser-o-no-ser-at-the-auditorium-de-palma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/juan-echanove-directs-ser-o-no-ser-at-the-auditorium-de-palma\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Echanove directs ‘Ser o no ser’ at the Audit\u00f2rium de Palma"},"content":{"rendered":"

The actor and director Juan Echanove presents and stars in ‘Ser o no ser’ at the Audit\u00f2rium de Palma this Saturday and Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Ser o no ser’ (To Be or Not to Be) is one of the great comedies of the 20th century whose plot deals with theatre and comedians.<\/p>\n

It was originally conceived as a film directed by the master Ernst Lubitsch<\/strong>. It was released in 1942, by United Artists, at the height of World War II and the height of Nazism<\/strong>. The play is intended to demonstrate the strength and resilience of theatre in disarming the lies and horror of Nazi fascism through comedy.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Audit\u00f2rium Palma.<\/p><\/div>\n

Synopsis<\/h2>\n

Warsaw, August 1939. The Tura couple’s theatre company moves into a theatre to rehearse Gestapo!<\/strong>, a play satirizing the global threat posed by Hitler and Nazism<\/strong>. At the same time, they perform Hamlet, whose verse “to be or not to be” will be the key to an extra-marital affair. But problems multiply on all fronts: the Polish authorities forbid the premiere of Gestapo!<\/strong> to avoid Hitler’s reprisals, but this does not stop Germany from invading Poland. With the theatre half-destroyed by bombing as a centre of operations, the actors of the Company will have to devise a double theatrical plot of wardrobe and impersonation to defuse the delivery of a document that would put an end to the Resistance and to flee from Poland to England, the land of Shakespeare. This means that it is they themselves who, in a show of acting, pass themselves off as Nazis. In the midst of this adventure, the Turas will have to deal with the arrival in their marriage of a young R.A.F. aviator<\/strong>, who has turned their married life into a vaudeville<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Opening times<\/h3>\n

The play, which premiered on Thursday the 16th of March, can still be seen this weekend at the Audit\u00f2rium de Palma<\/a>.<\/p>\n