A night with Franz Kafka (2007)

AUTHOR: Rogelio San Luis Ramos

Synopsis

Dormitorio. Noche. Mario, de pijama azul, y Berta, de camisón rosa, se acuestan. Él la quiere sin pasión, se siente libre. Ella en una celda. Él toma una pastilla. Duermen. Oscuro. Luz. La destapa. En su lugar, y de camisón rosa, Pilar. Telefonea inútilmente a la policía. Lo seduce. Se acuestan ilusionados. Van a abrazarse. Entra, procedente de la calle y vestida, Berta. La echa de casa. Mario se disculpa. Pilar, en una conversación amena, se va vestida. Berta de camisón. Se acuestan. Él le pide explicaciones. Ella tiene sueño. Oscuro. Luz. Su esposa lo ha abandonado. Coge las pastillas. Es Año Nuevo en la nada. Tomará las pastillas como las uvas de la suerte. Lo hace mientras una campana toca a muerto. Muere. Berta de luto y velo negro. Lo reprende. Llega, de luto y velo negro, Pilar. Se besan trágicas. Charla ingeniosa. Lo peinan, echan colonia, le ponen un abrigo y bufanda. Humor negro. Lo llevan al cementerio. Voces de los tres. Mario va a su sepulcro. Las dos, y con sus camisones

Technical data

Gender:
Comedy Drama

Female characters:
None

Male characters:
None

Space
2

Duration
Theatre brief

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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