Underground Ballads By EL TELON THEATRE COMPANY

Tuesday, 17 of May 2016
By Camila Gomes

Selfishness, ego, jealousy and betrayal, these are the right words that may not set, but insinuates a bit that is the play "Underground Ballads". 

It was the sound of a beautiful mix between xaxado and a background violates the actors El Telon Theatre Company Group, founded in Brisbane, Australia on July 27, 2012, made last Sunday 15of May 2016 the last performance of the season in Club XOXO in Fortitude Valley.

The play is a drama that tells the story of many hidden actors into ourselves, with a lot of music, alcohol and associated deaths, the scene develops into a bar, favorite place of night life lovers and alcohol. According to the director and writer of the group, Sebastian Roncallo, he tried to reflect some human behavior day to day sometimes many of us pretend not to see.

"When I wrote the play I was looking for reflecting some of the human behaviors that we see on a daily basis, even though we pretend we can’t see, and those feelings at some point explode in the,

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 form of selfishness, ego, jealousy and I betrayal the stage becomes a mirror in which the public may think more about what they see on the show. "

Asked about a possible relationship between the play and the problem with alcohol in Australia, Roncallo claims did not show a problem in Australia because, this isn’t just a problem here but in many places.

"The problem of alcoholism is not only in Australia but all over the world, and this kind of global problems and behavior was exactly what we wanted to show in the game, but being careful not to classify specific behaviors as part of a culture or country but to demonstrate that this behavioris the human being in the world in different scenarios."

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The Biology student, Arial Marcy, 27 years, didn’t take his eyes every movement of the characters. "It's very interesting how they interact with the public, this is a big differential, every scene, every look is as if they call him the public to participate as well, I liked it a lot and I was very interested to see more stories presented for them".

Pleasingly student the group is very excited to perform again, according to the group there are many ideas and desires to make it happens, but the seminal moment of a play, that is, the rising need to be thought along with everyone and not just a head thinking, you need the collective thinking. And as the theater is something that everyone should try one day, we cheered for them to come back soon to transmit it to more and more people.

Check out some more photos of it! 

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                                                           Photo credit: Marina Vivacqua