Toni Acosta: «'El sonido oculto' is a hypnotic work, I fell in love immediately»

Toni Acosta: «'El sonido oculto' is a hypnotic work, I fell in love immediately»

The performers Toni Acosta and Omar Ayuso star in 'The hidden sound'. / Sergio parra

The actress from Tenerife co-stars with Omar Ayuso in this work by Adam Rapp, which will be performed on Friday, the 20th, at the Víctor Jara Theater

Victoriano Suarez Alamo

Some literary creations captivate from their first lines. It sounds like a cliché, but it is true that as soon as the reader goes through them, he is trapped, passages are repeated in his mind over and over again and until the plot is resolved, the story does not come out of his head.
The Tenerife actress Toni Acosta ensures that the text
'The hidden sound', by the American Adam Rapp had this capacity and for this reason, as soon as possible, he has not hesitated to co-star in and co-produce the production that the next
Friday, January 20, from 8:30 p.m., disembarks at the Víctor Jara Theater in Vecindarioin the Gran Canaria municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana.

“I was doing something else when the text came to me. The project was running late and I finally finished the 'Host' tour. 'The hidden sound' couldn't get out of my head and I decided to pass it on to Juan Carlos Rubio. Something similar happened to me.
It is a hypnotic text, it generates an immediate crush, despite being a complicated text that is a challenge. I read it in a Mexican translation and Juan Carlos has adapted it to our country. Instead of walking along Fifth Avenue in New York, the protagonists walk through Plaza del 2 de Mayo in Madrid, through La Latina... That brings it very close and I think the public thus imagines the situations better, "explains the actress about a production of Tal y Cual, Txalo, La Leona Madre and La Alegría that had its national debut last week at the Teatro Leal in La Laguna.

The show directed and covered by Juan Carlos Rubio tells the story of
Julia Martina writing professor at the University of Salamanca, who knows
Hugo Barroso, a student who comes to her for inspiration for his novel. But behind both of them there is much more than meets the eye and it turns out that the student is the one who seems to inspire Julia, to unsuspected limits.

«There are texts that you read straight away and manage to get you into a different reality and thought than the ones you brought before entering the theater. They manage to modify you and make you think. They are the ones that as a spectator I like to see in the theater.
This is a work that speaks of loneliness, of a world marked by screens and unreal relationships.. The production is starred by two characters who take refuge in literature, something that happens a lot nowadays. People take refuge in fiction, be it books or series, to escape from reality. They are two people with apparently full lives but who feel profoundly alone and find each other and it is very beautiful”, advances Toni Acosta.

real and virtual life

The island actress is clear that among the great problems of contemporary society is the enormous dependence on virtual reality. Many are those who increasingly reduce their lives to this area and move away from direct and physical contact with what surrounds them.

«It is a melon that must be put on the table and opened.
It seems to me that we are all the time selling something that is not real. The reality is sitting down to have a coffee with your friend or with your mother and father. Give them a hand and a hug. The other is not real. When you are forced by circumstances and you live far away, technology helps a lot and you make a FaceTime to talk with your loved ones. I do it when I'm on tour, for example. But that each one locks himself in his house, when he is in the same city, thinking that he is with many Instagram followers, is not real. Life is something else, it is going for a walk and breathing fresh air. We are forgetting this and they are getting us to think even with the metaverse.
Instead of going to play tennis they want us to do it in those virtual worlds», warns the interpreter.

These questions are latent in the work, which Acosta defines as a "psychological 'thriller'" that also has moments of humor. «The two characters use irony to laugh at the situation they are in.
But the function walks towards a place that is not very well known what it is. That action is carried out by Omar, with his character Hugo. The challenge is for the public to accompany us and maintain the tension even if they don't know where the work is going », he adds.

The actress is full of praise for her scene partner. «The work has two characters who do not exist without each other. That's how they are conceived. It is as if you peek into a section of the lives of these two characters for an hour and twenty.
It has been beautiful to see Omar blossom as an actor. It is his first time in theater and the theater language changes, you have to spread your wings. It has been very brave. He is very hardworking and talented and people are going to be shocked to see him."

Tony Acosta. / Sergio Parra

«As an actress and as a spectator, always look for me in the theater»

Toni Acosta declares herself an unconditional supporter of the performing arts, although she successfully travels through the audiovisual, both in cinema and on television. "Always look for me, not only as an actress but as a spectator, in a theater," she says bluntly.

«The theater is always dying but it will never die. It is a place of communion where people unquestionably still like to go to see real actors, who may one day be wrong. I think it is eternal. It is a place to think, to later have a drink and discuss what has been seen », she defends.

On this occasion, he appears in the skin of Julia, a character that he has not designed alone. «The character has been created with Juan Carlos Rubio. He obviously has things that bring him closer to me, because my life has a lot to do with public events and afterwards I take refuge at home a lot. That leads me to quite understand Julia's search for solitude. But the places I have reached and the composition of the character have been achieved thanks to the gaze of a director whom I deeply admire. He is my accomplice and he has known how to take me to places that he had never visited. That they have much more darkness than what my life is. I have a fuller social life than Julia. I had to create a very lonely and lonely woman », she admits.

He considers it a dream to have premiered the project in his native Tenerife. 'El sonido oculto' will tour the country at least until the end of the year and already has a season at the Teatro Pavón in Madrid, in March.