To be or not to be to the letter (2.008)

AUTHOR: Rogelio San Luis Ramos

Synopsis

Divorciada, jubilada y mendigo. Vivirán plenamente. Silla de ruedas, cáncer y sida. Desean arrojarse por un precipicio. Una policía inexiste lo impide. Con trajes de presidiarios, en un hospital. La cancerosa es operada varias veces. La inválida se convierte en vida vegetativa. El hombre sufre alucinaciones. Se levantan y se sientan en la ventana. Piden ayuda para dejar de ser. Un hombre, que se dirige al público, se solidariza. Una mujer, también al público, los censura. Fue un sueño. El hombre los anima. La mujer los reprende. La matan. Ha nacido la eutanasia. Verbena. Gente y médicos se niegan a ser verdugos. Manifestaciones. Los desahuciados, en huelga, al público. Se legaliza la eutanasia. Cancerosa y mendigo no pueden huir. Se enamoran. Anestesian a los tres. Muertos en sus camas. Por el patio de butacas, entra un actor vestido de Hamlet. Deja caer el puñal. Precisa ayuda para el suicidio. Por el patio de butacas, entra una actriz. Interpreta la existencia y la rechaza. Interpret

Technical data

Gender:
Tragedy

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

Specialty
Playwright.

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INAEM
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