It’s hard to write and describe what happens when someone you love and admire so much passes away. Also thinking that these remarks are public, on the one hand, resonates strangely with me. One part wants Adolfo to become eternal and for everyone to remember him, and another wants to save that emotion for the sheets and my loved ones. I want to take it as a tribute to my great Adolfo.
Dear Adolfo: I start with the most important and most tangible thing you can give me: the job. This girl who arrived in Madrid at the age of 18 and to whom you did not hesitate to offer her first role in the theater. On the CDN! I couldn’t believe it… Your only doubt was that I should start the show singing. It’s always you who is responsible for telling this anecdote and I love seeing how you exaggerate it and how you get angry and laugh while telling it. Now it’s my turn to tell it and say that the first thing I told you was that my uncles are from the Consorcio and the Mocedades, so of course I knew how to sing! (I had no idea).
I also remember that day in the rehearsal room when you sat me down on a stool and said to me: “Forget everything. Sit here, face to face, tell me this monologue. Don’t project it, tell it to me.” Trembling I told you and I saw the pride in your eyes. I saw that you liked that my truth worked and that you wanted me on your team.
Thus began our years of traveling together. K Producciones, you, Cristina, your daughter Violeta, Sonia Almarcha… it always suits me. Little by little, everything turned into a love story. I say love because friendship is the most beautiful love there is.
Life is made up of coincidences, circumstances, moments. Thank you for coming and giving me a part of who I am. If there’s one thing that’s clear to me, it’s that you changed my life, Adolfo.
I want to think about the eternal, about what remains of you forever beyond this deep pain and this emptiness. Values. Your social commitment. The fight against injustice. Each time a text by Kproducciones or a book that you had recommended to me fell into my hands, I knew that there was something to denounce, something to contribute, a closed mind to open.
Always so generous… you gave everything, absolutely everything. I speak in the plural because Cristina, your wife, your other half, is another wonderful person that I cannot fail to mention. Your love has marked my life. I always give you an example in my stories to explain how I want to create romantic bonds as a couple. It’s not easy to feel so comfortable around people. With you, I’ve always felt this way.
And I thank you with all my heart for the pure and genuine love you have given me.
For me, there is no theater without you. There will be no stage that I go on that I don’t want to dedicate to you; the text that they send me and that I do not want to share with you; play that I see that I don’t want to play with you. Thank you for everything I learned from you. How much kindness, wisdom and example you leave.
Missing you is not enough. I love you with all my heart. Here, in life, you will leave this void that we will try to fill with life, theater and justice.
With all my love, your friend Susana.
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