Las canciones Pablo Messiez

The latest creation from Pablo Messiez arrives in the form of music. Making its debut last September, Las canciones tells the tale of a group of people who meet up to listen to different genres of music. What started as something inoffensive, a group simply listening and signing along to songs, ends up being something that transforms them all. While writing and creating this work, Messiez took inspiration from the characters and situations found in the plays of Chekhov, most notably Three Sisters and Ivanov. Messiez digs deeper into the human condition and the mystery of existence through both listening and not listening due to the absence of sound. “I wanted to create a work in which listening is more important than looking,” recalls the author, and it’s just as Olga says in Three Sisters: “The music is so happy, so joyful, and it seems as though in a little while we shall know what we are living for, why we are suffering.”

An El Pavón Teatro Kamikaze production.