April 29 to June 19, 2016
María Guerrero Theatre
Schedule: Tuesday to Saturday at 8:30 p.m., Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
Duration: Approximately 1 hour 45 minutes
Audience Meeting: May 26 after the performance.
Accessibility: On May 19 and 20, 2016, performances accessible for people with hearing and visual disabilities.
CAST
Jordi Collet, Roberto Enríquez, David Fernández Fabu, Alba Flores, Gabriela Flores, Ignacio Jiménez, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Paloma Tabasco, Ana Vélez.
Video Actors
Simón García Prieto, Claudia Portaceli Delgado, Martina Portaceli Delgado, Maria Àvila Sánchez
ARTISTIC TEAM
Vicente Molina Foix (Translation), Carme Portaceli (Direction), Carme Portaceli, Gabriela Flores (Adaptation), Anna Alcubierre (Set Design), Pedro Yagüe (Lighting), Antonio Belart (Costume), Jordi Collet (Music and Sound Design), Amaya Galeote (Movement Advisor), Eugen (Assistant Director), Juan Sebastián Domínguez (Assistant Set Designer), Carlos Díaz Llanos (Assistant Lighting), Cristina Martínez Martín (Assistant Costume), Paula Bosch (Assistant Video), Isidre Ferrer (Poster), David Ruano (Photography)
Production by National Dramatic Centre
Tennessee Williams tells us the story of a woman who has lost her husband and decides to shut herself away to mourn him forever. Raised with a strict and traditional education, she is convinced that this is what must be done. She lives by imposed rules without realizing that this is exactly the cause of her suffering.
Moreover, Serafina is an immigrant who earns the respect of her neighbors through “impeccable” behavior. But little by little, she discovers the hypocrisy of her life, and without intending to, her unacknowledged desires begin to surface.
She must choose between sex and death, between life and ostracism. And she chooses to live — she cannot let her life pass as if she had another one, because she doesn’t. Tennessee Williams’s play, a reflection of his own life, was marked by the fall of a world he belonged to, always present in his tormented, lonely, repressed, and misunderstood characters.
With this sensitivity, the author creates beings who are victims of themselves, living in a world where dreams have no place — a world that prevents them from finding happiness. A puritanical world that deliberately contrasts with the fulfillment of their deepest passions, a situation complicated when sexual inclinations don’t align with the moral norms imposed by conservative society.
At the same time, the author shows how this closed society, which preaches austere living, constantly breaks its own rules, as it does not hesitate to exploit the weak for gain, even if everything is justified in public.
Carmen Portaceli
