Waves, words of the sea (2.004)

AUTHOR: Rogelio San Luis Ramos

Synopsis

Mar entre dos playas. Coro de olas. Viejo dialoga con ellas. Gran pianista. Enviudó. Mujer, en la otra playa de estación y horario distintos, dialoga con las olas. Amor frustrado. Miran inútilmente el horizonte con unos prismáticos. Descubren la otra playa. Se ven. Echan un sobre al mar. Lo reciben y rechazan. Exigen mímicamente que abandonen la playa. Se arrojan piedras y caen al mar. Hablan y no se escuchan. Conversan. Se adentran en el mar. Retroceden. Bailan. El, rodilla en la arena, se declara. Lo rechaza. Simulan abrazarse. Coger agua y besarla. Puños en el mar. Tempestad. Cesa. Recogen y ponen la alianza. La desea. Ella corre. Simulan amarse. Crepúsculo de primavera en ambas playas. Toca el piano. Ella escucha. Pescan filete de ternera, pan, botella de vino. Comen. Noche. Duermen. Sueñan un ballet a la otra playa sobre el mar. No se ven. Echan botellas. Leen las cartas. Se ven. Lleva dolorida las manos al vientre. Orilla. Coge bebé en un moisés. Llora, lo amamanta y muere. Simul

Technical data

Gender:
Tragedy

Female characters:
None

Male characters:
None

Space
2

Duration
90 - 120 min.

Time
Timeless

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

Specialty
Playwright.

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