The Play.

Mr. Manson, an American Nightmare is a one man show created as a result of Eduardo del Olmo´s Master in Performing Arts at Susan Batson Studio in New York City thanks to the Fulbright Grant for the Arts.

The show focuses on the intimate life Manson, epitome of Evil and macabre reverse of the American dream.

The piece enters the prison (and mind) of Charlie, and his soul is exposed through a childhood full of pain and abandonment; one without education, economic resources or role models. A youth full of artistic frustration, crime and the promise of redemption through his cult. An adult life drowned in madness and hatred.

 

The show drinks from various sources:

*The Susan Batson technique: Unfulfilled Inner Need (love and lack of limits), Public Persona (guru and monster) and Tragic Flow (narcissistic conspirator and sociopath).

* The poetic and dreamlike space of Charlie’s own nightmares, in which the Mother is  constructed through an Hair Mask.

*Technique of puppetry through the Theater of Poverty: A small play within the play, reflecting on the class system, patriarchy and the education system.