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USELESS TO APPLY WITHOUT FULFILLING THE REQUIREMENTS
(Inútil presentarse sin cumplir los requisitos)
Written and directed by Larry Silberman and Perla Szuchmacher
Scenic design: Philippe Amand
Costume design: Edyta Rzewuska
Original music: Mariano Cossa
Lighting design: Jorge Ferro
Production: Ford Foundation-Fonca-Grupo 55
The following actors collaborated in the improvisational phase of the creative process of script development: Carmen Mastache, Gustavo Muñoz y Salomón Reyes.
“Useless to apply without fulfilling the requirements” is a comedy that addresses the uncertain situation of youth in the present day, who are thrown into the difficult competition of a saturated labor market. Three young people who are looking for work meet in the waiting room of a potential employer. From this moment on we see the three youths deal with an inflexible, threatening reality, and experience attitudes oscillating from solidarity, cameraderie, competition, individualism, discrimination, insecurity, intolerance, and the desire to be and belong to a society the appears not to have much to offer them.
The performance puts an accent on physical gestures, gags, supported by short texts always linked to the action. Farce, theatre of the absurd, hilarious comedy? It may not be possible to categorize the work in any one of these genres. We seek to take a little bit of everything to create our own style, where humor and fun set the example.
- Premier in the Theatre El Galéon, National Institute of Fine Arts, in May of 1998, with excellent reception from critics and the public.
- Selected for the Program of School Theatre 1998-99 in the City of Mexico for High School levels.
- Chosen for Theatre National Show, Tijuana 1999.
- Invited to Mercosur International Theatre Festival, Córdoba, Argentina 2000.
- Selected again for the Program of School Theatre
for the season 2002-2003 in Mexico City for High School levels.