Arrasados

Video footage at the Centro Nacional de las Artes, 2011.

Composition and musical direction: Rogelio Sosa
Stage Direction: Anajosé Aldrete
Script and adaptation: Gabriela Jauregui
Singers: Carmina Escobar, Rogelio Sosa, Juan Pablo Villa
Actors: Anajosé Aldrete, Baltimore Beltrán, Ignacio Perales
Video production: Michel Lipkes
Set design: Claudio Ramírez Castelli
Lighting: Gabriel Torres Vargas
Production: Daniel Lara
Production coordinator: Verónica Pequis
Audio: Daniel Goldaracena
Set design assistants: Mónica Alós, Irwing Mendoza
Lighting assistant: Marlenne Cortés
Video projection: Sol Flores Gómez

Arrasados, 2011

Arrasados is an interdisciplinary work that originates from the operatic model to generate an experimental approach combining music, text and scene. It is thus a hybrid between theater and opera in which the spoken word and dialogues are given greater weight; and where music is made not by live instruments but by using electronic sequences and processes. During the piece, each actor on stage is matched by one of the singers who, unlike traditional opera, are located as a coripheus at the top of the stage.

The libretto is a free and contextualized adaptation of the play Blasted by English playwright Sarah Kane.

The story begins in a hotel room where a couple arrives. When closing the door they become prey to their feelings, transforming them into beasts. The room thus becomes a war zone in which the characters go through the fear, angst and pain that slowly consume them. Their minds become a battlefield: an endless terrain bombarded by a dialogue of monsters and cannibals in which restlessness, destruction and death prevail.

Arrasados premiered at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato and the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City in October 2011.