In an old barn in Santa Eulalia del Campo is located The Corral de García, a theatrical creation center in the pre-Pyrenees promoted by the Huesca playwright Jesus Arbués, also after Viridiana Productions. They have been working for months on the stage adaptation of ‘The yellow rain’ by Julio Llamazares in which the actor Pedro Rebollo gives voice to the words of the last inhabitant of Ainielle.
“A place, an uninhabited town, Ainielle, is possibly the main character of this show. A mute, one-armed and lame character, but neither deaf, nor blind, nor insensitive “, Arbués explains in an interview in Aragón Radio’s ‘The Green Tram’.
The story of Ainielle
The yellow rain imagines the monologue of the last inhabitant of a town in the Pyrenees, Ainielle, during his last night in town. Andrés from Casa Sosas, explains his story from that last night of his life, from the night in which death will lead him to eternal darkness, where he will be reunited with his mother and all his loved ones.
The story of Andrés is the passing of a life and, in turn, the death of a way of living. Tenacious in his conviction, without losing fidelity to his own customs at any time, he will be the last inhabitant of his native town and of the house where he was born. But Andrés is beset by every imaginable evil: loneliness, death, laziness, illness, hatred, hallucination, time. In the yellow rain the rugged mountain landscape causes man to take stock of his loneliness and helplessness on the threshold of death.
The novel taken to the theater
Ainielle exists, it is there, not far from Biescas, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. But Can a people exist if no one is witness to its existence? In any case Ainielle was there, with 1,355 meters of altitude, it was one of the highest populated places in the Pyrenees but it has been uninhabited since 1971 when its last inhabitant left the town.
In 1988 the novel by Julio Llamazares The yellow rain and after 17 years of being erased from the map, Ainielle wrote again in the letters, this time in the letters of the fans of reading. Julio Llamazares set the plot of this novel in this town, and put a face to one of the most overwhelming dramas that the Spanish territory has suffered since the postwar period, depopulation.
Empty villages, houses in ruins, collapsed roofs, terraces conquered by brush, broken glass, extinguished chimneys … “This is the panorama of much of the interior of our country. Just as weeds eat the stone walls of houses, the absence of inhabitants devours the memory of places. On the other hand, cities appear more and more populated, less human … cities without memory, “continues Arbués.
The result of the dramatization of the popular novel can be seen this Friday, February 12, at 6:00 p.m. at the Olimpia Theater in Huesca and within the framework of the Olimpia Classic 2021 Classic Theater Festival.
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