“Trascendencia y Delirio” (Transcendence and Delusion) in Our Last Liberal Revolution is a musical comedy for all ages and audiences, from the most expert and critic to the audience more willing to be entertained. The dramatic performance of Héctor Arnau, with his piercing opinions and diverse jokes, is prone to the harmony of the harp, an instrument dropped out of the sky to comfort and soothe the earthly impulses. Therefore, using traditional compositions, elegant music and the court jester’s conflict that always exists between satire and elegance, Angélica Salvi seeks to reconcile, among anthems and dissonances, the similarities between the order established by tradition and the new ones, those called democratic revolutions.
TRANSCENDENCIA Y DELIRIO
A character called Transcendence, a typical jester of picaresque literature, comically reflects –nel mezzo del cammin– on the Passage of Time, with its revolutions, its leaps forward, its alleged continuity or circularity and its common places, telling family anecdotes of the ancestors who put him in his actual distress. In this pilgrimage of sentimental and political memories, often sung, an extraterrestrial harpist called Delirium appears on stage to play the strings that calm, disturb and sweetly transport the protagonist towards a new disenchantment with capitalist fictions: the Illusion of Exchange. In the failed balance between the transforming words and the abstract healing of musical silence, old conflicts and new convictions will also be released: the Liberal Policies, such as Compassion, Humanism, Solidarity and Advertising, all those words in which we identify and recognize ourselves.
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CREDITS
Harp: Angélica Salvi
Voice: Héctor Arnau
Art Work: Ruca Bourbon
Video: Luis Carabias