This week we've started thinking about the end of year Paucartambo play. There are two proposals we will be working on, one on alienation and the look for a Utopia, and the other which features various elements from the paucartambo celebration and focuses on the life cycle, life and death. So far we've only started working on the first one, but we haven't done much. We basically focused on the main ideas shown in the play and tried to use them to create a different play. We've been assigned a task to do, mine is to give a director's vision on the acting, and so far what I've come up with is to make it non-realistic, to make it strive as far away as possible to conventional theatre, and use that as the base from which to build upon, because the play is more about the ideas that are trying to be expressed rather than the actual characters and their personal development. Some ideas came to mind, for example how to represent the train, and since the train is an escape form the unease or anguish of a dystopia I thought about making it like a succession of still pictures, because anguish and unease is a strange feeling, and creating a fiction, or a new reality is one of the only ways out of it. So the still pictures are supposed to show the steps he takes to create it, boil it down to the essentials, rather than to show a dialogue. We are still a long way from completing this performance, but I think that if we agree on the same main ideas to be shown, or the concept, each of the parts that were assigned to us will be able to fit nicely and give off a good performance.

The idea of a Utopia has more to do with the experience of individuals than with an actual physical place. Having said that, a person living comfortably and happy in his/her society can be said to be living in a Utopia? Is it a reality?