The Casa de Las Muñecas Experience

As I entered the establishment the first thing that hit me was the luxuriousness of the place.  The columns seemed like they were cut out from the coliseum in Rome, the wooden tiles on the walls seemed too perfectly fit, in general, the atmosphere felt way too fancy.  Add to this Friday night equation the fact that my friend and I were by far the youngest people in the entire establishment.  In line, two women about six feet tall were in front of us talking in German, and a piece of carrot cake cost ten thousand pesos. There's more: there was an elevator man for a place with three floors.  Odd, to say the least.

As the play started I noticed that we had some of the best seats in the house, because the subtitles for the play (the dialogue was in German) were right in front of us whereas the rest of the people had to choose between the neck ache that came from constantly reading something three levels above you and observing the actors perform.

Oh and the play in itself was a spectacle.  In class we are taught to use a certain part of the stage with the people that we are performing with and then leave when our scene is done to stand in the corner and allow the spotlight to be left on the current actors.  In this huge stage there was an actual spotlight where the small cast performed throughout the play.  An actor that wasn’t in the square-lit portion of the stage wasn’t part of the plot, at the time.  Nevertheless, in the spirit of analyzing the play one can notice that even when they aren’t in the spotlight, their actions complement the dialogue and plot that the ones inside are portraying. 

Throughout the entire play we noticed that given the loud phonetic nature of the German language, the actors had the luxury of exaggerating tone repeated times without the audience noticing the change in acoustics I the room.  Why is this a luxury?  One could hear and perfectly interpret what they were saying with there change in tone, if it were silent, and one could only read the dialogue, the entire spirit of the play would be lost.  Overall, the play was a perfect mix between an original screenplay and a classic plot.  The Casa de Las Muñecas experience was unforgettable.