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The National Drama Centre presents at the Maria Guerrero Theatre in Madrid one of its most ambitious and elaborate productions, “Luces de Bohemia” by Valle-Inclan. Lluís Homar, actor and director, who throughout his career has participated in major works like “Hamlet,” “The Three Sisters” and “The Misanthrope by Molière is Responsible for the direction.
For one who are not familiar with “Luces de Bohemia” it is the title of one of the most important Spanish plays of the twentieth century, and which led to the creation of an entirely new theatrical genre, the grotesque. Valle created with the grotesque characters a degraded gameplay of a warped outlook on life who are presented as deformed figures. Bars, taverns, brothels, squalid houses or unsafe streets are some of the typical scenarios where grotesque characters tend to hang out usually being drunks, beggars or failed artists. “Luces de Bohemia” is believed to reflect the life of Alejandro Sawa. Sawa left an unpublished book of poems after his death, and the story of that tragic life is the one Valle used to bring to life the story of Max Estrella.
Only through cruelty and the bitterness of absurdity we can get a glimpse of the wonderful points of tenderness and the nudity of characters who abandon all hope and therefore show their inside innocence .
In “Lights of Bohemia” we discover how Max Star shows us, in his idleness, how unjust and oppressive a country be with some of its people, shaping the atmosphere of true responsibility and creating human scarecrows .
In the XII scene we find some key phrases in the work such as the “Classical heroes reflected in concave mirrors” or ” The most beautiful images in a concave mirror are absurd”
The characters played by Enric Benavent, Gonzalo de Castro, and Miguel Gonzalo Cunill Rellán among others, talk like real people do, tripping over each other tumultuously and often loudly. The viewer will soon be introduced in a story that overwhelms for its own realism. Do not miss one of the most interesting performances of the season.
Produced by the National Drama Centre, established by the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music, which was founded in 1978, seeks to disseminate and consolidate various currents of contemporary Spanish theater.
Enjoy “Bohemian Lights” in the theater Maria Guerrero in Madrid during the entire month of February to March 25, every Tuesday and Saturday at 20 pm and Sundays an hour earlier. The ticket price is 13 to 18 euros depending on location.
Web info: http://cdn.mcu.es/index.php/es/Temporada_actual/Maria_Guerrero/16/
Fernando Paterna
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