“He became a partner when Matute did not exist.” Guess, the first play about Alianza written by the son of a historic intimate leader | League 1 Betsson

Alianza Lima is tradition, popular culture, devotion, history, faith. But it is also partying, partying, happiness, criollismo… it is “Barrunto. Barrio, fútbol, ​​salsa y tragedia”, the first play inspired by the club born in the heart of the populous district of La Victoria of the cadre of the League 1 Betsson. A novel written by Juan José Sandoval Zapata in the year 2000, turned into a short film, a comic and now, more than two decades later, it will debut on the tables of the Association of Amateur Artists in September under the direction of the playwright Herbert Corimanya and with the participation of renowned national actors and actresses. | News League 1 Betsson.

he tells us with total pride Juan José, son of Don Carlos Sandoval Aliaga, one of the founders of the Alejandro Villanueva stadium and life member of the institution. “My connection with the club comes thanks to my father. He became a partner when the stadium did not exist and was one of the first to buy a share that cost, at that time, one dollar. This is how the stadium was built. He was also a leader in the nineties ”.

Hand in hand with his father, Juan José always breathed allianceism with every step he took. At the beginning of 2000, Alianza suffered the loss of Sandro Baylon, one of his ‘Foals’. The blue and white town is once again affected by a tragedy, little more than a decade after the ‘Fokker’. “From there I make ‘Barrunto’. At the end of the 1990s, Peruvian soccer -and Alianza above all- had been closely linked to the tragedy. First it was the ‘Fokker’ thing, then Sandro and there was also, for the worse, the violence of the barras bravas”.

Name guess born in the neighborhood, as the jargon itself explains it. Between Héctor Lavoe’s hard sauce and G-3’s punk, two genres that accompanied Sandoval’s days, the title of the novel was born. “Héctor Lavoe has a song called Barrunto that stuck with me. And G-3 has another one called En casa, which talks about the neighborhood. That’s how the name was givenremember.

guess It is an extraordinary novel that seeks to respond to that profile of a barra brava fan who has a deteriorated image of society, but who carries behind him endless feelings, memories, grudges that lead him to that path. “It is the awakening of the youth that did not find their space and settled as best they could in the city of those years”describes Francisco León, editor of the book.

In 2004, the filmmaker Mauricio Franco decided to make a short film about the work. In 2015 the graphic novel version of the comic was made and it was one of the best sellers. It even came to be considered one of the most important Peruvian graphic novels of all time. Three years later the project began to convert guess in a play by the hand of Hebert Corimanya.

A work that not even the pandemic stopped

Juan José and Hebert know each other from the newsrooms, always doing cultural journalism. The years passed, the friendship grew stronger. Corimanya played soccer until he was 17 years old. He made minor divisions in Alianza Atlético de Sullana, but his life led him to the theater, his other great passion. In 2009 he made his first work. And it is there that fate puts him in front of Barrunto.

“’Juanjo’ introduces me to the story and when I read it, the images began to appear in my head. In those years, ‘Mystery’ was playing a lot, which later came to television and generated a whole ‘boom’. So we began to project well how it can be done, but with a clear objective: Hebert points out.

The project as such started in 2018. Corimanya was in charge of writing the dramaturgy of the book. But it was not easy at all. The pandemic that hit the whole world also affected the plan they had. Even -Juan José says- they had thought of presenting it virtually. An idea that was immediately discarded. The work could not be wasted like that.

“In the play, Alianza Lima occupies the place of an absence. It may be the father. Where there is a void, Alianza is there to fill it in the best way, with that love that one feels for their team. Because they talk about family, love for the colors of a shirt, identity, and what a person is capable of for the club they are a fan of. There is no rivalry with the ‘U’, the compadre. He is mentioned, but there are no fights. We give another approach to that social conflict”adds Sandoval.

There is no better choice for an Alliance play that is performed fairly by Alliance members. And therein lies one of the fundamental factors of ‘Barrunto’. The cast has great figures like Coco Gutiérrez, Fiorella Luna, Cecilia Monserrate, Alain Salinas and Alejandro Villagómez. All of them have been working for what will be the presentations from September 8 to October 1 at the Association of Amateur Artists.

“I’m a fan of Lima AllianceI have gone to the stadium with my dad. I think that will help me understand, in a certain way, the character. But this work not only describes the barrista, the violent one, but it will try to discover why it is like that, why he has these conflicts, what he feels. That is the great challenge we have”says Gutiérrez, who will be the protagonist of the work.

says the renowned actor.

Barrunto will hit the stage very soon to narrate the story of two Alianza Lima supporter brothers who go to the stadium to watch the Peruvian soccer classic, but events occur along the way that will mark the lives of their protagonists. Tickets can be obtained through VAOpe.com.