Clara no joke
AUTHOR: Elena Belmonte Salmón
Synopsis
The woman in the ad is presented at your home, and make for you, what you want to do. It may be your lover, your mother, your daughter, your friend, your executioner. It is so waterproof, so serious, so effective, that nobody knows, nobody knows what is hidden behind.Only the last client of a long day of work, will be waiting to remind him of who he is and what he has been.The effort of self-improvement , the grudge, and the immense distances that often separate people, are the main ideas of this work.
Technical data
Original language:
Spanish
Gender:
Drama
Female characters:
2
Male characters:
3
Released, Published, Award-Winning
Space
1
Duration
60 - 90 min.
Time
Contemporary
Year of establishment
2007
Other data
Release date: 2008
Place of premiere: Teatro Lagrada de Madrid
Artistic team: Compañía "Martes Teatro" Dirección: Manuel Galiana
Date of Publication: 2008
Editorial: Asociación Autores de Teatro (AAT)
Additional information
Esta obra fue ganadora del Premio "Textos Teatrales Villa de Pinto 2007" y del Certamen Nacional de Teatro "José Baeza Clemares 2009". Se representó en varias provincias españolas y en la sala Estudio 2- Manuel Galiana, desde julio de 2013 hasta enero de 2015.
About the author
Elena Belmonte Salmón
Elena Belmonte Salmón is a writer of prose and plays, a teacher of creative writing and an editor. Her works include The Vain (Los vanidosos), Clara, no Joke (Clara sin burla), Dance of Bones (Baile de huesos), The Wound (La herida) and The Mechanics of Resentment (La mecánica del rencor). She has also written monologues including Windows (Ventanas), Years of Water (Años de agua), A Responsible Guy (Un tipo responsable), No One is to Blame (Nadie tiene la culpa), Molly, my Molly (Molly, mi Molly) and Persephone Smokes (Perséfone fuma).
One family’s sad, monotonous life is shaken by the arrival of a group of strangers who prevent them from leaving as they wait for something. But what are these strangers waiting for? What do they really want? Uncertainty and a tense, overwhelming atmosphere force the darkest of secrets, kept by the members of the family for decades, into the light. This play is a search for the whys and wherefores; an explosion of everything that gradually kills us from within and that, unavoidably, will one day have to shout in order to survive. But survive what?
Uncertainty and a tense, overwhelming atmosphere force the darkest of secrets, kept by the members of the family for decades, into the light.
This play is a search for the whys and wherefores; an explosion of everything that gradually kills us from within and that, unavoidably, will one day have to shout in order to survive. But survive what?
Stay hours in the waiting room of a psychologist is something that can give a lot of themselves. Sometimes more than one would like. Narcissus and Anastasia, anything but simple, attending "helpless" to be reflected in the other and unleash their inner demons.Words like father, mother, drama, or falsehood will be brought and carried until a kind, with half a pint of psychologist, will deliver just what's most feared for both; for Daffodil that bears the life without taking off the hat and Ana refugee in your lipstick raspberry color.Under an air of dislike, funny, humor angry, "The vain" speak of the seriousness of the failure and that is invented himself, or to look towards the other side, to contain the tears.
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