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La Sede Teatro · Web Series

Fracaso YoTuve

A theater company adapts its craft to YouTube during the 2020 quarantine, with José C Paz, Juan B Justo, and an occasionally involuntary supporting cast.

The Series

Fracaso YoTuve follows the quixotic task of translating stage work into online video. Seven weekly chapters document the small disasters, discoveries, and dry humor of trying to keep creating while everyone learns the tools at once.

Fracaso YoTuve turns the challenge of translating live theatre into online video into a playful weekly series. Across seven chapters, it follows an experimental process shaped by uncertainty, persistence, and the kind of mistakes that often appear when a creative team is learning unfamiliar tools together. Rather than hiding the awkward moments, the project gives them room to become part of the work. The result is an honest reflection on adaptation, where live performance meets the intimate but unpredictable world of recorded communication, and where every small failure can reveal a new way to keep creating and collaborating.

The journey begins with a seemingly simple question: can a videollamada carry the presence of a stage? From there, each chapter introduces another practical obstacle, such as finding the right equipment, choosing a frame, or making the action visible through a screen. These technical problems are not treated as interruptions to the artistic process; they become its material. The series captures the shifting relationship between actors, space, audience, and technology, showing how a theatrical idea can survive in a different medium without losing its humor, vulnerability, or sense of shared discovery.

At its heart, Fracaso YoTuve is a meditation on creative perseverance. The process may be described as a chain of small disasters, yet the tone remains generous and lightly comic. Mistakes reveal the distance between an imagined performance and its recorded form, while each attempt makes the next one more informed. Weekly chapters allow the audience to witness that progress as it happens, without polishing away the uncertainty. The evolving video work becomes both documentation and experimentation: a record of what did not work, what unexpectedly did, and how collaboration can turn technical frustration into renewed theatrical imagination.

The series also celebrates learning in public. As everyone becomes more familiar with the tools, the distinction between rehearsing and discovering gradually softens. Problems that once seemed essential begin to look like opportunities to rethink staging, movement, and communication. The project values process over perfection, offering a warm and self-aware portrait of creators adapting together. Its recurring questions invite viewers to consider what is lost and gained when theatre moves from a shared room to an online format. Beneath the mishaps is a simple conviction: creative work continues through curiosity, laughter, patience, and the willingness to try again.

Season I — Chapter Release Schedule

Chapter I — “Videollamada: ¿sencillo?”

Season premiere

Chapter II — “Un trípode: ¿fácil?”

Released Friday, August 14, 2020 at 20:00

Chapter III — “La búsqueda”

Released Friday, August 21, 2020 at 20:00

Chapter IIII (forgive, IV) — “Por mail seguro sale bien”

Released Friday, August 28, 2020 at 20:00

Chapter V — “Convivio”

Released Friday, September 4, 2020 at 20:00

Chapter VI — “Durán (?) Barba”

Released Friday, September 11, 2020 at 20:00

Chapter VII (Season I Finale) — “Te…”

Released Friday, September 25, 2020

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Access the Full Season

The complete Season I was made available to ticket holders through Alternativa, alongside other La Sede Teatro online productions and live streams. Entry to Fracaso YoTuve was part of that access pass.