es pedro de valdivia cachai!

we went to see pedro de valdivia to the alianza francesa theater. It was performed in an open stage, where the audience was lifted up in several level in order to get a better view of the stage. This actors are very similar to Yuyachkani i think, because the three of them dominated a lot of musical instruments and did a play of historical background which is mostly what Yuyachkani does, very much similar to the last play we saw of them, Sin titulo.

The play was about the conquer of chile, what we expected was the accent along the play, but the actors did well in avoiding it at certain moments, just using it for specific lines making the accent more intresting, or at sometimes more funny. There was a problem with the music and the talking at the same time, because the instruments were so loud the voices were barely a whisper.

All the play was done with the sound effects that they created with their voices or with the instruments which gave another sensation of sound effects that a simple track of music would have had. They also used a lot their body in terms of props and representing something, when they had to ride the horse they just pretended they were without the use of any prop. When one of them was writing a letter he also pretended to have it even though they could have it . Why did they choose to not have the letter to write in when they could? Did the letter meant something they didnt want to show in the play? Maybe we should think about this for the set of props in our play...

There were some game with the lights i think we could use for the suicide scene of amparo, when the lights only iluminated from above and a very strong shadow appeared reflected in the back of the stage making it look big and black. it had a much bigger impresion when the face of the actor which couldnt be seen with the big shadow behind was reveled with the light that came out of the chest and illuminated his face as if it were gold.
would the shadows be affected by the amount of cloth we are going to have on top? Is the image going to be as clear as in this play, or is it going to be just a big shapeless shadow with no effect in the audience?

Another game they did which i think worked really good was the puppet. It was great to see the the puppet move in the same way and at the same time as the actual pedro de valdivia, this effect i think could work really good when the witches want to possess or capture the sr.feudal and carlitos, having the withes move in the exact same way at the exact same time as the people they are capturing.
but would the effect be the same due to the lack of difference in size? The puppet was much smaller, here the four of them are almost the same size, would that affect the effect?