This Wednesday we saw the play "Hebras" in the school theatre performed by the theatre group "Cuer2".

This wasn't the first time I saw the play, but certainly, by seeing it again, different things emerged which I had not been able to give sense to before. I used to have a more objective view of the play, given that there are two "characters" which seem to be involved in a power struggle, I used to think that the play was about the relationship between two people, and how humans always want to be able to control what's around them. But this time, it wasnt so.

One of the things I missed last time, and that shaped my understanding of the play in a different way this time, is the fact that the characters seem to merge at the end, they join and become entangled. That could be interpreted as two parts of a single thing, instead of two different beings.
The fact that they seem to go on a loop, or that each seems to be a mirror image of each other also helps prove this point, because it reinforces the idea of them being the same, and we all tend to fall into the same patterns over and over again.
And also the fact that they had bandages is evidence of some sort of wound, or in this case some sort of violent separation, that seemed to have occurred before.

So these things changed my point of view of the play from a play a bout a relationship between two people, and the power struggle involved, to a play which shows our internal struggle, and how everyone has more than one side to him/her.

Apart from my understanding of the whole performance, one of the things I really enjoyed about the play was the physical work. Regardless of meaning, intention or context. The way the bodies interacted and the mastery of the body is something that I instantaneously appreciated. As well as the music, which seemed to fit in perfectly with the performance.

An observation I had from the performance was that people started clapping when there was a fade-out of lights on the actors, but the musician's light was still on, which meant the play wasn't over yet. This may have been because there were some people who couldnt see the musicians because they were facing the other  way, and so when they started clapping, a chain reaction occurred, leading to the premature clapping.