The work is ‘Retahílas’, production of the Salamanque La Befana company, after the adaptation by José Gabriel López Antuñano, directed by Alejandro Arestegui and performed by Nuria Galache and José F. Ramos.
The actress Nuria Galache recognized during the press conference to present the work that “many years have passed with the hope of being able to adapt this work.”
“It is one of the most different works of Carmen Martín Gaite and the adaptation respects the structure of the novel, so the staging is risky,” said the actress, who added that the work tells “the need to speak, to tell, the importance of the word”.
The story is about “two characters who, even though they are very lonely, need to seek company and then realize that they are quite similar.”
It’s about an aunt and a nephew who meet when their grandmother is about to die”, summarized Galache. The staging is “very clean, so the importance is given to the work of the actors”, added the actress.
For his part, actor José Ramos assured that the work “will be appreciated in these times when people tend to be in their individual bubble” because it “explains how being with other people heals us”, he indicated.
“This can challenge us all because we will all feel identified at some point,” concluded Ramos.
The work, as summarized by the Department of Culture, takes place during a long sleepless night, during which Eulalia and Germán – aunt and nephew – undress with emotion through a dialogue. They unravel the past, rewrite it and confront their perspectives on life, desire, loss and identity.
Eulalia returns to the summer house where she spent her adolescence, with her seriously ill grandmother. Informed by her, German, a nephew, arrives. As he lies dying, a long conversation takes place during which the frustrations of both emerge and, expressed out loud, reveal unconscious traumas.
Tickets, Fernández said, have “very popular prices” of 12, 16 and 20 euros and are now on sale at the Teatro Liceo box office and on the website www.ciudaddecultura.org.
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