Two for the Seesaw

People are attracted to each other and repelled, like on a seesaw. It's all about the speed of these events: some people will get over it in a few days, while others will take a lifetime.

She is waiting for him, he is waiting for her invitation. Will there be a match or not? Who will call first? Will they hear each other or not? Will he come or not? Will he just show up, or will he finally come with a suitcase? Will they be happy together? How long will it last? Why is it so short? What happens then?

It seems that these two are as far apart as the slender and extremely tense streams of Bach's austere violin chaconne and the relaxed, ironic ranchera song of Chavela Vargas, a gray-haired Mexican shaman in a red poncho, composer of Pedro Almadovar's films, and recipient of the highest royal Spanish order, the Grand Cross of Isabela the Catholic, for her music, of course. Two bright musical universes, exhaustively beautiful, which seem to sympathize with each other if they were introduced. However, they fail to sound together. Similarly, the characters in the play will be attracted to and repelled by each other - they are too different and too lonely. Well, this happens.

We see the story of their unsuccessful and even undramatic love up close, as if we were inadvertently looking through a random window. This observation evokes a lot of tender compassion for each of the characters, and the effort to make them into a kind of holistic "we" is the most interesting quest for the audience.

The premiere of the play took place on October 30, 2009.