Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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January 16, 2026

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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, unwavering determination, a distinctive style, and an enormous thirst for freedom.

We conceived the 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 small literary biography, which she herself narrates, interspersed with the most important events of her life: her relationship with
Sanchez Ferlosio, her husband, and other writers of the time, the loss of her two sons, her relationship with her daughter, her refusal to become a member of the Royal Spanish Academy...

The projection of her collages during the monologue, along with the music she loved, will be the perfect accompaniment. It's a portrait of a writer who "opened many paths closed to women in those years, and of a novelist and essayist who discovered the many nuances hidden within seemingly mundane lives."

VERSION/ADAPTATION: Mercedes Asenjo
PERFORMER: Mercedes Asenjo
DIRECTOR: Javier Esteban
PRODUCTION: Theatre of Chance