Play review: La Falsa Criada

The play: “La falsa criada”, was written by Pierre Carlet Chamblain de Marivaux, and it was directed by Alberto Isola. This play was a about a girl “El Baron”, by Alejandra Guerra, “Lelio” by Leonardo Torres Vilar, “Trivelino” by Miguel Iza, “Frontino” by Akberick Garcia, “Arquelino” by Christia Ysla and “La condesa” by Norma Martinez.

This play was about a girl, that is about to get married, with someone she doesn’t know, and she founds this guy in a party and she was dressed as a boy, he saw his future husband with another women, and in order to safe his heritance and the money she was going to give him, she decides to stay as a men and be his friend and discover his secrets.

In my opinion the main important purpose for this play was to introduce a new way of making the play, as this play is very popular, I think the director wanted to propose a new way of making and acting this play. I think that the game in this play was the change of character within one actor which is “ El baron”, as he is a girl dressed as a boy, and how she changes her character so spontaneously.

The voice and intonation used in this play was really well-used as the voices changed in order to distinguish the different characters, specially “El Baron”, that as it was at sometimes a girl and at some others a boy, the voice had to change a lot.

Regarding the scenery, It was very simple, it had 3 walls, they were fixed. The one in the back had a door, and the only thing that changed in the scenery were the little things, such as the chairs, the fountain, and those little things that the stage had. The scenery was very simple, as it didn’t had many changes, I think that they just changed in the change of acts.

The costume, in this play, was very important, because at the end  El Baron changes costume in front of the audience. Showing her really identity. The costume was old costume, with big long dresses and fancy suits. I think that the costume in this particularly play, was a very important element, as it changed the characters, because of the plot of this play. Also the music, it gave the play a m0ore interest way of watching it, but in my opinion,  some of the music in this play didn’t match the actions the characters were doing, for example, when “El Baron” finally takes of the ‘men costume’ there is this song, and I like the effect that this makes but the music in this part was ‘out of place’.

They used ‘still pictures’, specially in the end, when the girl changes and takes out the costume to reveal the truth, every other character stays in still picture, which gives the scene a very interesting and original action. As it just lights the action that is the most important.

In a conclusion, this play makes a new and interesting way of making the play, by the use of still pictures, the costumes, the actions, the characters, and the scenery.