In The show we are so together, so physically together actors and audience… that it creates a moment of shared happiness. The show is like going back to the origin of everything: people take the stage and act for another group of people, that’s it. Something very primal, intense… it’s like being without the first layer of skin. Doing The show we have fun, we do what we do for an audience, but at the same time we do things for us, there is true complicity and that is magic. The show is not only a monologue night, but there are also scenes and scenes and monologues from different authors, intertwined amongst each other, creating an evening of theatre that has a coherence and a sense of direction, being as if the words that have been written to be spoken were connected with each other, as if each play had a little bit of the other, each line is continued by another line from another text, from another writer, from another century. And rightfully speaking, that is the theatre.

When I arrived at THEATRE FOR THE PEOPLE I was very confused, since I was accustomed to work from a very different point of view. I feel as though I have deconstructed myself completely, and little by little I am beginning to work differently, more disciplined, trusting myself and having a great time doing it. Adán allows you make errors and he treats you with a lot of respect and compassion. One doesn’t need to suffer, no mental garbage, he shows you how to simplify things, make things easier, he brings out the best in you through joy and freedom. He gives you the best texts, the great characters from the classics to more contemporary material from movies and television. You could be working on a Shakespeare monologue and at the same time you could be working on a Pulitzer winning play. That is something that not only makes you grow as an actor, but primarily as a person.  

Freedom, confidence, honesty and passion, all added to how special Adán is as a person and as a director, this is what he shares every minute of work with him. To learn to respect yourself and your work and to discover to joy of expressing yourself leaving to a side the natural insecurities that are inherent to this our beautiful craft of ours.

The show is an exciting and liberating experience, an opportunity to express ourselves fully, through the practice of the great texts, an injection of reality and adrenaline that transforms us on stage, a moment of truth to enjoy in front of an audience.

When you find yourself with someone that loves the theatre with the passion and conviction like that of Adán Black, you have two options: Either you run away or you begin to feel the same and you allow him to take you by the hand, in confidence, fully committed and humble.Along this path you begin to unlearn what you have learned, you are less fearful of leaving theory to a side, you stop worrying and you begin to work with honesty and sincerity, you start to value your work, you realize that you no longer want to show off, you are humble and you believe, you allow yourself to play (a lot) and to enjoy (always), above all else, this art of ours and it’s tremendous power. I am learning to liberate myself, to respond as I feel moment to moment, to accept my vulnerability, my doubts, my fears, my frustration or my shame, and to know that in all my faults therein are the strengths and power of my own individual truth. To be, to stay present, breathe deeply, look into the eyes of my fellow actors and say the text, as is, without any other objective than to be myself. Adán has shown me to be myself, to work hard, to raise my voice and to be heard.

THEATRE FOR THE PEOPLE is a place that awakens the need to dream, to create, to share and to feel freer than ever. The atmosphere of closeness, familiarity and friendship enables emotion to travel feely, with no fear, in a space that has a deep respect for the theatrical act. The humanity and humbleness with which Adán shares with all of us his experience proves to be very exciting for those of us who share the same attitude towards the practice of this craft. A very simple motto like “Stay present, stay true”, proves to be a beautiful journey towards the most human parts of you, parts that have been hidden from the world inside ourselves. A journey that finds it’s voice in THE SHOW, thanks to dedication and passion that Adán puts into it’s preparation, an experience that for the actors that are part of it, is the cherry on a cake that has taken many hours to be made.