Let’s start with the concept. The playwright and director Pablo Remón has created two different versions of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya that are represented one after the other with a single cast. The public can see only one or both in a double session or on different days. They will tell me: what need is there to put your chest and back into the same play with the same actors twice in a row? And nothing less than a Chekhov with all his Russian density! No need, obviously. But I warn you: the viewers who attended the premiere of both pieces this Thursday in Madrid would have stayed for a third. Exhausted after almost four hours, but touching the sky like happy drunks.
“The word crisis means opportunity,” say the corny people and the hustlers. This phrase could be perfectly pronounced by Xavi Sáez, an actor who plays all the male roles in L’imperatiu categòric, Victoria Szpunberg’s new film at the Lliure de Gràcia. A woman brings together in herself several crises of our contemporaneity: she is over fifty, she has just separated from her and she is kicked out of her apartment. To make matters worse, she is a professor of ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy. Àgata Roca (great casting success) stars with aplomb in the story of a lost woman in a state of imminent collapse, who begins to suffer strange dizziness and fainting. The city is Barcelona, a jungle of expats and gentrification, where the right to housing competes hand in hand with the right to dignity.
Pablo Remón shakes up the billboard with a double version of Chekhov’s classic destined to become the work of the season. Review by Raquel Vidales.
Àgata Roca leads with aplomb the story of a lost woman and in a state of impending demolition in Victoria Szpunberg’s new work in Lliure de Gràcia. Review by Oriol Puig Taulé.
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2024-03-01 22:16:39
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