What happens when a blind man, a mute man and a deaf man want to flirt? Well, if they are three lifelong friends, each one with a physical peculiarity, they can’t think of anything other than to join their efforts to try to seduce each of them one of their neighbors. This is the approach of Bonobos, the comedy by Laurent Baffie that has triumphed in Paris.
In the purest style of boulevard theater, the adaptation of Bonobos, signed by Julián Quintanilla, and translated and directed by Edu Pericas, has six performers who have accepted the challenge of bringing to the stage with humor, but also with respect, this comedy, “with a lot of subtext,” declares the producer of Anexa, Toni Albaladejo. They are Oriol Casals, Maria Garrido, Mònica Macfer, Jordi Soriano, Xenia Reguant and Elías Torrecilla.
Pericas details what Bonobos is: “It is a situation comedy and we want people to come and have a good time. In Catalonia we have a great sense of humor, but peculiar, and that is why we have adapted the work to our parameters.”
And he gives the synopsis: “There are three characters, childhood friends, with small physical limitations, who consider having sexual relationships, as they say now, with some neighbors, without them knowing that one is blind, the other mute and the other deaf. “They want to hide it and see what happens.” The situation occurs in a city like Barcelona, ??but is not identified.
The director also outlines a biological note: “Chimpanzees and bonobos are the primates that most resemble humans. But while chimpanzees are patriarchal, territorial and violent, bonobos are matriarchal, non-violent and use sex to improve their relationships. One of their friends tells them that, if the bonobos can do it, why not them?
In the Catalan adaptation, the female characters have been enhanced, who “in the original are more flowery.” Thus, one is mossa d’esquadra, who would like to intervene in big cases, but she is in administration; The second is a nurse and, perhaps, the most judicious of the three; and the third she is at the point in her life that she wants to be a mother, and that puts it ahead of everything. Comedy is served
