Compañía Theatral Tras el Trapo, more familiarly known simply as Tras el Trapo, is a theater cooperative which supplied us with one of our actors, one of our crew members, and helped us find other actors and crew members when we asked. Tras el Trapo also lent us their space for a scene, lent us some costuming materials, and generally treated us very nicely, indeed.
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| Javier (Javi) Padilla in front of the theater company's van. He's usually not so serious looking. |
The company´s producer was individual the who helped us most: Javier Padilla. He is an actor and appears in two scenes in Domino. In one, he is a friend of our hero Luis, but turns Luis down when Luis asks for work because he simply can't afford to hire him. In another scene, Javier plays the drunk who accosts Luis at night, asking for a light for his cigarette.
Javier also was the one who lent us use of Tras el Trapo´s rehearsal/studio space, lent us some costumes, and provided us with names and contact info of several actors and crew members.
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| Maria Duarte (center) inside the theater's rehearsal space. Javier Padilla is on the left. |
The other Tras el Trapo member who helped us was Maria Duarte, an actress who worked on our crew as script/continuity. In our scenes in which people were in a bar drinking beer, she spent a lot of time checking the level of the (usually non-alcoholic) beer in the glasses so it wouldn't suddenly change in the middle of a scene. She watched over hair styles, checked to see jackets didn´t become unbuttoned simply because it was blazing hot, and other such detailed and kind of thankless tasks.
She also coached the actors with their lines (and a few needed rather a lot of coaching).
Both of these people, and Tras el Trapo itself, really helped in the production of our show. We are truly appreciative.
OUR NEXT BLOG will be about private greed and the economic crisis.
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