Azar Teatro

It’s almost night. Some hours after his latest crossing over the Niagara River, Blondin, in his home, receives the unexpected visit of a young man who looks up to him and has been keeping track of all his career.
Far from flattering him with his praise, Carlo comes to seriously criticise his latest crossing. The Great Blondin has cheated, which is an unforgivable thing of such a talented artist.
“Everything that is promised must be fulfilled, especially if it has been announced, if you charge a fee for it...”

ABOUT THE PLAY AND STAGING.

Peruvian playwright Alonso Alegría, writes about the historical, real incident of the crossing over the Niagara by a French tightrope walker – Jean François Cravelet The Great Blondin – who crossed the gorge of the mighty river on a tightrope eighteen times in 1870. Turning this feat into a powerful metaphor, Alegría tells us about the flow of life itself to a hopeful shore: the individual’s fulfilment as a profound being, committed with existence.

Crossing the Niagara shows us the possibility of an inner flight as the climax of the human being, not on his own but together with the other, thus being able – through the dialectical struggle brought up in their encounter - to create a new being who will be the bearer of the necessary hope and creativity for a future life.