BARROCAMIENTO
AUTHOR: Fernando Sansegundo Álvarez
Synopsis
During a Night of Souls at the present time, appear in a theatre, the spirits of three authors in the Spanish language, from our Baroque: María de Zayas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán. Trying to figure out the reason of such strange circumstances, they will examine the story of their lives and their experiences, their love won and lost, their successes and their defeats, to understand the true reason of his coming. The work represents a fusion of the original writings of the authors and, in their majority, original texts, most of them composed in verse aureus.
Technical data
Original language:
Spanish
Gender:
Comedy Drama
Female characters:
3
Male characters:
None
Released, Published, Award-Winning
Space
1
Duration
60 - 90 min.
Time
Contemporary
Year of establishment
2012
Other data
Release date: 9 de Enero de 2013
Place of premiere: Centro Cultural Paco Rabal (Madrid)
Artistic team: Intérpretes: ROCÍO MARÍN, ALICIA LOBO, ZALOA ZAMARREÑO Dirección: FERNANDO SANSEGUNDO, Diseño del cartel: MANUEL DE LOS GALANES, Escenografía: ANA G. MARINA, Vestuario: MARIBEL BINIMELIS, Reparto en vídeo: BLANCA PORTILLO, DANIEL ORTIZ, CANDELA SERRAT, NURIA LÓPEZ
Date of Publication: Mayo de 2017
Editorial: Editions Antigone
Additional information
XXXIV Festival Nacional de Teatro Vegas Bajas 2015
PREMIO DEL PÚBLICO
MEJOR DIRECCIÓN (Fernando Sansegundo)
MEJOR INTERPRETACIÓN FEMENINA (Rocío Marín)
About the author
Fernando Sansegundo Álvarez
Rather than repeating the details of my professional history (see the attached CV for a summary), I’ll introduce myself in a few general lines. I was born in Madrid in 1957. Although I don’t feel responsible for that, I do feel responsible for what I’ve done since. My original plans didn’t include theatre, but I should have foreseen something when I enrolled at the Faculty of Image Sciences, after convincing myself that my less-than-steady hands would prevent me from shining as a neurosurgeon, my secret ambition. But theatre appeared in the shape of an unexpected opportunity, and the famous venom that it distils left me hopelessly trapped: as soon as the chance arose to study it in the context of the T.E.C. Laboratory (the best option at the time, I dared say), I doubted no longer: I left behind the halls of the Complutense University of Madrid and other caprices. I have worked for forty-something years in almost all of the professions related to
Specialty
Writer, director, actor, teacher…
The difficult relationship between a teenager and the new partner of its mother will both look for an explanation to their respective sadness trying to share his confidences with third parties
A young stars in an altercation in the square of Zaragoza, where it displays the cannons commemorating the defense during the war of Independence, and today point to the door of a well-known shopping center. After an act of resistance to the authority and aggression to an agent of the same, the author of acts is transferred to a detention center.
To verify that goes undocumented and that it is identified with the name of the Agustina of Aragón starred in the feat of 1808, he decides to submit to a psychological evaluation that will end up sowing doubts among even his interrogators, to the time the event is taking on a considerable impact in the social networks.
The memories and also the ghosts of Agustina confused on is plot on the decisions that change the course of a life, and the necessity of heroism in an age increasingly pragmatic, in a world where they accumulate too many corpses unnecessary, and so many injustices unresolved.
Version to the scene of the screenplay by Luis Buñuel for his film "El angel exterminador".
The elite of the sixties of the mexican bourgeoisie are transformed here in the present, "influencers" and ruling elite nearest of our society.
Using a technique reminiscent of the modes expressionists, located in an old European borders undefined, the function is presented as a thriller only to the extent that the spark that caused the action is based on a crime and an arrest. No one seems to understand how a relationship so seemingly harmonious has resulted in a tragedy, a silence in which insists even the main involved.
The chaining of obsessions and dark double interests lead us to an outcome where the reality is more petty than expected, and where they reveal aspects -which sadly remain current, about the prejudices that pervert the relationships between men and women.
Through the interrelationships of three women, we attend to the influence of jealousy in the neuras current. Jealousy loving, but also those that correspond to the relationships between sisters, the work situation or the accounts receivable of each of them.
Jekyll begins where it ends, the story of Stevenson. The main character of a dual nature has turned the order into two separate beings and inseparable. Accomplices and encubridores mutual will have to face two women are very different from each other, to the outstanding accounts with the doctor and his creature have led to the home of the monster to bring to light, shadows are not resolved.
Renewing the spirit of the victorian atmosphere and the gothic novel, Jekyll reviews with new eyes, the dark borders between good and evil, the passion and the fight against our own nature.
On the basis of the function is done, Caesar is installed in a Rome that it could be any other center of power, a reflection of our Europe powerful, fearful and fenced. In it, the circumstances have put women in positions of power to be far away from the metropolis of the men guarding the borders.
A Caesar aged and patriarchal, clung to the prestige of his myth, dreams to remain in power in overthrowing the Republic to establish itself as the dictator. Against his attempt, a group of women pretend to curb this danger, and at the same time take it a step further in their aspirations for equality.
From the argument of the story of the same title by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, narrates the disturbing and macabre game in involved with on one side a group of professionals of the Justice retired, age almost impossible, and on the other his guest for the night: a traveling salesman who has left pulled his brand-new car in the middle of nowhere. The evening, enlivened by a feast, unending, drift in the investigation of a possible criminal offence, while the old seem to recover ancient forces. A play about the conflict between law and justice, on the decline, the guilt, redemption and violence.
As a reference, the meeting -more legendary than real, between Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor moved to the present day.
Monarchs no longer have the figure of power. Finance is the only empire that is inherited. Elizabeth and Mary are women of the company. Their nightmares, the vicissitudes of the market, the pressures union, the eye of the press. His ministers, boards of directors, their covenants mergers, their battles takeover hostile.
The historic prison of Mary can be today a psychiatric hospital. Confined in the room that she found one day, awaiting the visit of the only person who can save her or condemn her.
Personal version of the original text of Lope de Vega for the mounting of the Company MIC Productions under the direction of Borja Rodríguez
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