PRESS
9 July, 2024
ATUVU CANADA
The play Julieta by Gabriela Muñoz, dedicated to the performer’s grandmother, invites you to meet a strange and somewhat eccentric woman who lives in a room made of colorful partitions, similar to a dollhouse. Her clothes (robes and nightgowns with multicolored prints, which hide the most necessary details of the day in their pockets, sleeves and necklines, and slippers that sweep the floor) remind me of my grandmothers.
It is true that “Julieta” is far from becoming a performance that aims to mock – the shadow of sadness and loneliness always accompanies being a clown, but with her charming and comic timing, Muñoz is able to distract it, as if saying: “Look here! ” And now here! Isn’t this situation funny? guiding us through her world, where death is always present, but does not prohibit living, and sadness does not prevent laughter.
Muñoz constantly and easily leads the audience intoxicated with silent humor to the depths of the theme, filling the character’s house with surreal dreams and nostalgic memories, so that finally the sensitive and poetic ending, witnessing the departure from this world, becomes an effective stage miracle.
“Julieta” is a truly moving performance that surprises with the breath of the clown’s limits and how much can be said without saying a word.
©chulatheclown