Actress Concha Velasco returns to the Principal Theater of Zaragoza from March 18 to 21 with ‘Maria’s room’, a dramatic monologue about loneliness with large doses of humor written by his son Manuel Martínez Velasco and directed by José Carlos Plaza.
As Pentación Espectáculos points out in a press release, it is about the ssecond collaboration of mother and son on the tables, after ‘The funeral’, which ended its tour in March 2020 and with which it also visited the Aragonese capital, on that occasion, the Teatro de las Esquinas.
At the functions, which will be represented at 7:00 p.m., Concha Velasco plays Isabel Chacón, a famous Planet Prize-winning writer, who suffers from agoraphobia, and that she has been locked in her apartment in a skyscraper for 43 years.
Your figure is everything a mystery for the followers of the writer And on her 80th birthday she continues to celebrate alone, at her home, on the 47th floor.
That night occurs a fire and all the tenants are forced to evacuate the property, but for Isabel this is impossible, simply because she cannot leave the house. As the flames reach the roof, exactly during the 75 minutes that the show lasts, Isabel will have to make the most important decision of her life facing with an intelligent sense of humor his fears, his ghosts, and all the traumas of his life that have led him to this crossroads, before it is too late.
“Is the best”
In the words of the author, “this work is written for her, because only she could play Isabel Chacón”, while only Plaza could direct “this torrent of emotions.”
“She is the best and he is the best. It is the perfect tandem and with it a beautiful circle is closedWell, that Plaza directs a text of mine is a gift of life. And that my mother recites my lines about her kingdom, the tables, is another treasure that I will keep forever, “says Martínez Velasco.
As the author himself explains, ‘Mary’s room’ speaks, in the key of optimistic dramedia, of life in capital letters.
“Of love, of happiness, of sadness, of vitality, of loneliness, of anguish and of liberation. It is also a catastrophe thriller, as the flames advance uncontrollably towards Isabel, as a vital countdown so that she leaves herself before she everything is ash, “he concludes.
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