A Wild Current / Unha corrente salvaxe
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AUTHOR: Raúl Dans Mayor
Before starting a new life with a man she does not love, Ana must pay a past debt. To do so, she has to go back to her birth town, where she also spent her childhood. A place her whole family fled after Ana´s best friend was assassinated.
Original language:
Galician
Gender:
Drama
Female characters:
2
Male characters:
3
Edited, Award-Winning
Space
1
Duration
90 - 120 min.
Time
Contemporary
Year of establishment
2012
Date of Publication: 2013
Editorial: Revista Galega de Teatro / Editorial Artezblai / Arola Editors
Translated to: Catalan, Spanish, Basque
Raúl Dans Mayor
Raúl Dans (A Coruña, 1964) starts his career as an actor in the historical Company Luís Seoane, A Coruña. After starring in the 1988 “Or the lad who chegou of different”, a production of the Centro Dramático Galego directed by Mario Gas, Dans formed as a playwright and screenwriter, by attending seminars and courses taught by Sanchis Sinisterra, Robert Mckee, Victor Erice and J. Carriere, among others. In 1993 bursts on the scene of the deed theatrical galician Matalobos (Award Rafael Dieste for Texts Teatrais) and a year later, he was awarded the Prize Álvaro Cunqueiro Theatre with the Place, the Centro Dramático Galego staged in 2000. With A current wild achieved for the second time the Award Born Theatre (2012), an award that had already been achieved in the 1997 edition with the work of Defeat. In 2015 won or XXIV Premio SGAE Theatre Jardiel Poncela with the play the songs that I sang to the children.
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David, absent from his land for many years, returns home after the death of Franco. Upon arriving, he discovers in amazement that the reservoir under which it was sunk their town has disappeared mysteriously, and his home is back as before to cover the waters. And what is even more extraordinary: his childhood best friend, who died years ago in rare circumstances, it presents again before him, ready to relive the events leading up to his tragic end.
Portrait ruthless of a family nucleus in decomposition, in whose center is Helena, the wife and mother, dam of the dissatisfaction and bitterness, to the challenge of facing a battle against the target while his whole universe collapses.
The action takes place in the cities of Vigo and Santiago de Compostela during the spring of motion, 15 M, months before ETA to announce, in October 2011, the termination of the armed activity, and dates back to the early 80's of the last century, the years of terrorism harder and LAGS. There are two frames main intertwine as they advance the action. On the one hand, the story of a dam of ETA who had just gotten out of prison after serving his sentence and, in parallel, of a young man who wants to know everything about her mother -absent from his life since he was a child - to finish discovering the terrible secret, who hides his disappearance.
NOTE: “All of the data has been provided by the authors, therefore, the AAT is not responsible for their accuracy”.