Elvira Sorolla was part of Cuarta Pared since it was founded in 1985 at its first headquarters on Calle Olivar in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés. At first she worked as an actress, although she soon left the stage to perform assistant director duties. From that place, she has been linked to the entire trajectory of the Cuarta Pared Company, developing “fundamental, efficient and silent work”, according to the words of Javier G. Yagüe, Sorolla’s partner and director of the Fourth Wall, National Theater Award 2020. Elvira passed away this Tuesday, July 4, in the city of Madrid due to a stroke at the age of 68.
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He participated in productions recognized by critics and the public as Hands (1999), possible rebellions (2007) o Nothing to lose (2015). In the last 15 years she has combined her work as an assistant director with the general coordination of ETC (Espacio Teatro Contemporáneo), the research area of the Sala Cuarta Pared. A fundamental place in the investigation of the Madrid theater from where Sorolla served as hostess to many professionals who today occupy a relevant place in our scene such as María Velasco, Julián Fuentes, Jesús Rubio Gamo or the brothers Quique and Yeray Bazo. “Perhaps her greatest virtue has been that anyone who was associated with her felt that Cuarta Pared was like her home,” says Javier G. Yagüe. Everyone knew Elvira in the Fourth Wall, she talked and introduced the hundreds of students and creators who passed through the room to the universe of the Fourth Wall. Her profession always reminds her attentive and demanding, serious at work and with a huge smile in relaxed moments.
Elvira represented the ethical and artistic foundations of this room that began its journey 36 years ago, which received recognition from the Ministry of Culture in 2020 and which has been a shelter for fundamental companies in Madrid such as La Carnicería Teatro de Rodrigo García or Provisional Danza de Carmen Werner. In short, of an entire contemporary theater that until the last decade had the doors of public theaters banned and found its home and its audience in the Fourth Wall. “It makes me sad to think about the past and the future of an alternative theater without Elvira. His opinion was always a hug that allowed us to calibrate that of the experience (the fire without a story) that is not named”, affirms the director and playwright María Velasco, today a Max Award and member at the time of the Fourth Wall laboratory and that this year he was working with Elvira Sorolla until this last week in the sample of students from the Sala school.
“He was a peaceful push…, someone who improved, with his being and his being, art and life. I owe you a few inches. From her discretion, at Cuarta Pared’s office table, she offered a master’s degree. Humility, experience, wisdom, care. I am afraid that we will have to defend his values a lot in the future, ”concludes Velasco. Madrid loses a theatrical reference that knew how to assume a second plane and give the greatest meaning to this collective art. Elvira Sorolla leaves Amador González alive, another of the references of this Madrid space, deputy director of the Fourth Wall and his life partner.
2023-07-05 14:28:03
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