In the dark heart of the forest

AUTHOR: José Luis Alonso de Santos

Synopsis

Los cinco personajes de esta obra viven una serie de conflictos y situaciones que nos sirven para dibujar su carácter y su destino. Los protagonistas son unos viejos gatos en un caserón de campo abandonado. Allí reviven los ecos, dimensiones y emociones de otros tiempos, y la búsqueda de un futuro imposible ante un mundo nuevo que destruirá todo lo anterior.

El tiempo y el espacio se convierten en protagonistas del drama, al tomar cuerpo y dimensión escénica. Paralelamente se viven dos historias de amor, la de los personajes que ven cerrarse el horizonte de su vida, y la de los personajes que empiezan el camino, y que, al descubrir el amor, encuentran un nuevo sentido a sus vidas.

El mundo del circo aporta unas pinceladas al cuadro, como el mundo barroco y decadente de los jardines del pasado o de la música de Mozart, con la mirada filosófica –escéptica y resignada- de Marca Aurelio, y su importante obra Meditaciones.

Technical data

Original language:
Spanish

Gender:
Drama

Female characters:
2

Male characters:
3

Released, Published, Award-Winning

Space
1

Duration
90 - 120 min.

Time
Contemporary

Other data

Release date: 2009

Place of premiere: Sevilla

Date of Publication: 2015

Editorial: Esperpento Ediciones Teatrales

Additional information
Publicación tras el Premio Nacional de las Letras Teresa de Ávila (2010)

About the author

José Luis Alonso de Santos

Born in Valladolid (spain) and lives in Madrid. Graduated with a degree in Information Science, and Psychology. His theatrical career began in 1964 in the Independent Theatre and the Studio Theatre of Madrid. He has been director of the Royal School of Dramatic Art of Madrid, (and Professor of Dramatic Writing), director of the National Classical Theatre Company, and president of the Academy of Performing Arts in Spain. He is the author of fifty works, among them: get Off the moor, The estanquera de Vallecas and Wild-type (taken to the cinema), long Live the duke, our owner!, The album family, Peers, and Nines. He has performed versions of Plautus, Moreto, Aristophanes, Moliere, Shakespeare, Calderon. He has written movie scripts, television series, children's fiction, and books of theory in theater: The dramatic writing and Handbook of theory and theatrical practice. Awards: National Theatre, Tirso de Molina, Mayte, Gold Medal Theatre of Valladolid, Max Award, and the Premio Castilla y León de las Letras.

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