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This play is part of the commemorative program that the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language (ILCyL) is developing in the various public libraries of Castilla y León. Its aim is to introduce the public to the figure and literary thought of the Salamanca-born author Carmen Martín Gaite through a contemporary stage production. Carmen Martín Gaite is an iconic figure of great importance in 20th-century Spanish literature, who skillfully cultivated all literary genres: short stories, plays, novels, essays, and poetry. She was also fond of creating collages and loved to dance. She is a role model for women of her generation and continues to be so for subsequent generations. She had a strong character, a firm personality, and unwavering determination, a great style, and an enormous thirst for freedom. We conceived this project as a tribute to this incredible writer from Castile and León, recreating her figure and selecting different fragments from her extensive work, as if it were a short literary biography, which she herself narrates, interspersed with the most important events of her life (her relationship with Sánchez Ferlosio, her husband, and other writers of the time), the loss of her two children, her relationship with her daughter, her refusal to become a member of the Royal Spanish Academy...). The projection of her collages during the monologue and the music she loved will be the perfect accompaniment. The portrait of a writer who "opened many paths closed to women in those years, and of a novelist and essayist who discovered the multiple nuances hidden in seemingly mundane lives." VERSION/ADAPTATION: Mercedes Asenjo PERFORMER: Mercedes Asenjo DIRECTOR: Javier Esteban PRODUCTION: Teatro del Azar
- Location : Multipurpose room of the Library (basement floor)
- Free admission until full capacity.
- Duration : 70 min.
- Age: Adult audience
