Oedipus is a sad song (2.009)

AUTHOR: Rogelio San Luis Ramos

Synopsis

Domingo de verano. El marido, cincuenta años, lee periódicos. Su mujer, cuarenta y tres años, e hijo, veinte años, desean que los lleve cinco minutos a una playa lejana. Madre e hijo toman el sol, se bañan y se echan agua. Regresan de madrugada. Original escena de amor del matrimonio. El hijo observa celoso. La madre, en otra original escena, contempla a su hijo en la ducha. El hijo le declara su amor. Lo rechaza y se va de casa. Vuelve. Amor de madre e hijo. Simula conquistar al marido. El hijo los descubre. Ella le dice que mate a su esposo. Lo estrangula. Lo sientan en un sillón. Pasan veinte años. La madre aconseja a su hijo que se case. Encuentra una huérfana de treinta años. El muerto, sin envejecer, pide la mano; va de padrino. La madre de madrina. Alegre boda. Sorprendente noche. Su madre lo anima. Pasan diez años. El no es feliz. Intenta suicidarse. La madre se lo impide. No se han olvidado. Los descubre su mujer. El hijo le dice a su madre que la mate. La estrangula. La sient

Technical data

Gender:
Comedy Drama

Female characters:
None

Male characters:
None

Space
3

Duration
90 - 120 min.

Other data
Rogelio San Luis Ramos
About the author

Rogelio San Luis Ramos

MY BIOGRAPHY TO SCENE was unaware that there was no one I had discussed. What a surprise. I went to court to ask for a birth certificate for one of my characters and I found mine. Had come to life, in La Coruña (Spain), April 22, 1935. I read it, as if it were a book, the pages of my memories. Dwelt in the darkness, was a companion of shadows without sense. The light, from the spotlight, he showed me the reality. Dwelt on an empty stage, in a space of fiction. I had to invent my own being, arise between the nothing. My imagination was creating the argument that it should interpret. I painted the backdrop for the world, a home, parents, society. The whole history of humanity can be found in the tables on which it represents its absurd spectacle. I was happy, I was playing in theater, I felt free. I soon stopped being one. Tanks, ships and planes invaded us. The authors died shot or went too far. The scenario, kidnapped

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