We cannot say that Manuel Lourenzo has left us. We cannot reason that in cultural life, threads are woven together much more than all the cables of the internet. Lourenzo left behind essential lessons. Some on stage and others off stage. When we say off stage, we are not talking about the stalls, but about the world, the neighbourhood, the city, the squares or any other space where normal life takes place.<\/p>
Manuel Lourenzo was tasked with setting up a theatre. A stage that would help to sustain a language that assumed the identity of a people. Rather than taking it on as a challenge, which is what they say now in all the beefed-up biographies, he took it on as his life’s work and was an actor, director, playwright, dubbing artist and all the other trades essential for a story to reach an audience. He created companies, participated in collectives and was a teacher to three generations. <\/p>
He also had an idea of how to do theatre. This was one example: a theatre nourished by classics and his own writing, which was nourished by the classics. A theatre adapted to doing more with less, to asserting itself more through what it told and how it told it than through the tons of material in the sets. An idea of theatre in which everyone participated in the creation, a theatre as a tool for giving people arguments for building community. If the word horizontal were not so empty, it might be useful to us now. Don’t think of humble. It’s in a worse situation.<\/p>
For Lourenzo, his intense inclination towards the stage was contradictory, because as an author with so many awards (Cunqueiro, National Theatre, National Galician Culture…) he was little sought after to perform his works. He premiered with that stubbornness of certain Galician theatre to take on the whole cycle: having a company, writing, directing, acting, lighting… It’s not that he liked vans, but I think he had a certain nostalgia for doing theatre that maintained a certain amateur spirit. The idea that on stage everything is incidental except the performance.<\/p>
As he was a kind person and refused to be a classic, he never got angry enough that people only remembered him as Melgacho or Terito, works with a lot of public impact, but which were minimal in relation to all his artistic work. And yet, they are two characters dominated by silence, as if by a shyness that seemed to mark his life’s journey. A discretion that was another of Manuel Lourenzo’s great lessons.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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