Hoping that little by little we will be able to return to normality as far as the cultural agenda is concerned, today we want to propose to you in Bezzia four plays dramatic. Four works that for one reason or another have caught our attention and that would well deserve a trip to another city.
Of the four plays, only one is already on the bill and faces its final stretch in Madrid. The others, on the other hand, will return or will be released over the next few months in theaters in Madrid and Barcelona. And who knows? Maybe later they can reach more cities in Spain. At the moment, he finds out what each of these plays is about and where you can see them.
I am Hamlet
- Until February 28, 2022 at the Reina Victoria Theater, Madrid.
- Playwright: Richard James.
- Directed by Gabriel Olivares.
- With Leo Rivera and Gabriel Olivares.
I am Hamlet is a piece written in one act, with shades of black comedy and thriller. The action takes place in an empty theater (for 75 minutes, in real time, without ellipses).
Tomás Torres, director of an amateur, semi-professional theater company, arrives at the theater at night to solve an urgent problem. With rehearsals about to begin, has been left without an actor to play Hamlet. That same night, a stranger appears at the theater, Simón, a boy who has just arrived in Madrid. He has no theater experience, but insists on auditioning and getting a chance to play Hamlet.
The more intellectual and sophisticated character of Tomás collides with the ingenuity and Simón's theater world view. However, Thomas and the "absent audience" will discover that Simon has much more in common with the Prince of Denmark than meets the eye.
I am Hamlet is more than a theater performance, it is an experience of attending a performance where boundaries between reality and fiction are not clearly defined. It also marks the acting debut of director Gabriel Olivares (Burundanga, El Nombre, and Gross Indecency) playing the character of the theater director alongside actor Leo Rivera.
A Shy Llum
- Until February 14 to March 7, 2022 at Teatre Condal, Barcelona.
- Dramaturgy: Africa Alonso.
- Direction: Marilia Samper.
- With Júlia Jové and Àfrica Alonso.
The La Cicatriz Collective, hand in hand with the directed by Marilia Samper, takes the story of Una llum timida to the stage. A combination of text and music in a work that aims to break the silence, and vindicate the lives of lesbians for what they are: the historical memory of our country.
Isabel is a young history teacher at a school in Barcelona during the Franco years in Spain and is deeply in love with Carmen, the literature teacher. Without wanting to, but without being able to avoid it, a love story between the two that will seem to end when Carmen's family, with strongly conservative ideals, forces her to enter a psychiatric hospital to cure herself of this love that cannot be and is not well seen.
Some time later, Carmen returns home with Isabel, leaving behind family, hospital and work, now having to face the aftermath than electro-shocs that you have been receiving in the hospital have caused you. Isabel will try to help her survive until the last consequences.
the strange land
- From March 1 to April 10, 2022 at the Teatro Marquina, Madrid.
- Written and directed by Juan Carlos Rubio.
- With Diana Navarro, Alejandro Vera and Avelino Piedad.
- Musical direction by Julio Awad.
Shell Piquer He has wanted to meet Federico García Lorca for a long time. It is not in vain that he is the most requested poet of the moment and she is the most famous singer in Spain. That meeting must take place. A woman accustomed to managing her destiny and never receiving no for an answer, she asks her collaborator Rafael de León to meet the poet at the Spanish Theater in Madrid, where he is rehearsing his new concert. He wants to ask her to write a song for him.
Federico accepts the invitation. On the one hand he admires the singer's voice, on the other he is eager to get new income that, together with the theater, will allow him to lead the standard of living he has always dreamed of and which, at last, he is beginning to enjoy. That yes, they have told him so many things (and not always good) about the Valencian that he comes with certain reservations, a lot of curiosity (and quite late), to the meeting.
But, once face to face, the cards will be placed on the table. The real reason for that meeting is to warn Federico that the situation in the country is irreversible. Concha knows for a fact that her name appears on several blacklists. "People like him" should flee abroad as soon as possible. For his own safety. Federico does not believe that the blood will reach the river and that things will calm down.
However, a terrible event, the assassination of Jose del Castillo a few meters from the theater, makes Federico rethink the situation. Maybe I should run away. Concha tells him that she can provide him with a ticket to Mexico right away. You must not waste a minute. But the poet is not so clear that this is his destiny. Spain is his homeland. And you will never feel in it in a foreign land.
bad living
- February 20 at the Principal Theater of Ourense
- From May 5 to June 5 at Naves del Español in Matadero, Madrid
- Dramaturgy and adaptation: Álvaro Tato.
- Direction: Yayo Cáceres.
- With: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Marta Poveda and Bruno Tambascio.
Malvivir tells in first person the secret life of the mischievous Elena de Paz, free woman, rebellious, thief, ingenious, liar and fugitive who defies all the conventions of her time and pays the price of her freedom.
Malvivir is the journey to dark face of the Golden Age; a journey through the different social layers, settings and characters of a turbulent and fascinating time.
Malvivir is also the story of wild and torn love between Elena and Montufar; two miserable rogues in a Spain of splendor and famine, of dreams and deception, of faith and witchcraft, of illusion and death.
Ay Teatro presents a tragicomic vision of the XNUMXth century, a reflection on freedom and survival and a rescue of female picaresque literature from the Baroque. With excerpts from La hija de Celestina by Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, La chica de lies by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, La pícara Justina by Francisco López de Úbeda, letrillas by Francisco de Quevedo.
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