Salvador Vallejo Caballero |
Mérida (EFE).- The singer and actor Ramoncín, who premieres at the International Classical Theater Festival of Mérida with the play ‘Los Titanes. The fury of the gods’, his first musical theater, confesses that he faces this challenge with “a lot of responsibility” but faithful to his style, without fear of “nothing that can be learned”.
Ramoncín (Madrid, 1955), who considers himself “in love” with Mérida and the Roman world, returns to the theater after his last performance, in 1986, and plays the roles of El Vigilante, in charge of telling the story of the play, and also of Hermes, the messenger god.
During the rehearsals, the artist has adapted to a way of working different from the one he is used to, since he is part of a “gear” and must “hold back” when making certain objections, he comments in an interview with EFE.
“How did I get into this mess?”, he wondered after the first rehearsal and the process of assimilating all that “mixture” of elements that discipline requires, although he is not afraid of “nothing that can be learned”.
A work for new generations
The Madrid rocker, who rose to fame at the end of the 70s with songs like ‘Marica de velor’, wants to reach the new generations with the representation, since they have made a “light” musical comedy through the “dressing” of text with contemporary elements like Spiderman or Superman.
“If everything is reduced to the screen, we are dead”, affirms Ramoncín, in relation to the current forms of culture consumption, to which he adds the need for young people to be “interested” in Plato and to study his allegory of the cave , since 2,000 years later the feelings are the same: hate, love, sex, revenge, money or power.
The interest that the Greek world awakens in Ramoncín manifests itself from the viewing, years ago, of films such as ‘The Titans’ or ‘The Colossus of Rodas’, of the peplum genre, as a result of which he stresses the importance of “finding the ways” to get these messages to young people, who go through “speaking” to them in their language.
no to censorship
Given the recent cases of censorship of various theatrical and cinematographic works that have occurred in several Spanish town halls in which the PP and Vox govern, the artist recalls the importance of knowing “what things mean” and that these cases cannot be allowed after the “unique” levels of freedom achieved in the country, despite having such a recent democracy.
“You can’t drive without a rearview mirror,” he warns, referring to always keeping the background in mind and understanding why things happen.
It also affirms the responsibility of a “state party” that has governed Spain, with millions of voters, to do “everything possible” to get rid of a “radically fascist” idea.
“Now feeling the loss of freedom is a tremendous bump that we cannot afford and that is in the hands of the people,” the actor closes this controversy.
The “show” continues for Ramoncín
The week after ‘Los Titanes’, the author of ‘Cuando el diablo canta’ will return to Madrid for a morning concert at the Sala del Sol, in which he will talk to the audience about why his songs live so many years later.
Will you rescue the validity of several pieces from your first album, Ramoncín y WC? (1978), in which he talks about LGBTIphobia, machismo and mental health, which he could have written “two days” ago, which “worries” him.
He claims to continue writing songs “in the same way” and that he will soon release his new song ‘No volarán’, whose chorus “speaks very clearly”, in addition to the new album he is preparing.
He is also working on a theater project in which he confronts the Ramoncín of today with the one of twenty years ago, an exercise in which the protagonist is “skinned”.