Theater review ‘Luces de bohemia’ Text Ramón M. del Valle-Inclán Version and direction Eduardo Vasco Scenography and props Carolina González Lighting Miguel Ángel Camacho Costumes Lorenzo Caprile Music and sound environments Eduardo Vasco Performers Ginés García Millán, Antonio Molero, Alejandro Sigüenza, Andrea M. Santos, Ángel Solo, César Camino, David Luque, Ernesto Arias, Irene Arcos, Iván López-Ortega, Jesús Barranco, José Luis Alcobendas, José Luis Martínez, José Ramón Arredondo, Juan Carlos Talavera, Juan de Vera, Lara Grube , Luis Espacio, María Isasi, Mariano Llorente, Mario Portillo, Pablo Gómez Pando, Puchi Lagarde, Silvia de Pé and Toni Misó Lugar Teatro Español, Madrid 4One century after the publication of the definitive version of ‘Luces de Bohemia’, the montage of Valle-Inclán’s work remains a challenge only suitable for high-altitude climbers, those who are not even affected by the lack of oxygen. Valle wrote a hybrid text, a play that hid a strongly innovative narrative and was torn between its impossibility and its possible stage representation. But once the technical problems or excuses have been overcome, we realize that the staging of ‘Luces de Bohemia’ today needs something more: human intensity, emotional complexity, reflecting all those crossroads of misery, pettiness, history and politics, that is , go down to the bottom of the reptiles.Eduardo Vasco makes a truly monumental ‘Bohemian Lights’, scrupulous with the text, unobjectionable and effective in terms of the montage of scenes, plastically powerful and generous in terms of the number of actors and actresses that make up the cast, but irregular. There is no strength, there is no tension, there is no human drama that just lights up the stalls. It is true that at the beginning where Max, Claudinita and Madame Collet appear unconvincing, in the prison scenes or in the dialogue with the Minister the work acquires its true dimension, but in Max’s own death or in the dialogue of Rubén Darío and the Marquis of Bradomín in the cemetery, everything returns to a few words without sentimental substance, without that disturbance, humor, concern and uncertainty that are the nerve of the entire work. Much more than before the puppets of a grotesque, we find a predictable display of a traditional nature. We must appreciate the vision that Eduardo Vasco carries out of that political and social climate that is truly on the limit, of that convulsive Spain with its violent underlining. It is in moments like these where this ‘Bohemian Lights’ appears over the Viaduct and makes us tremble with its flight to the cobblestones and broken glass of our history. Where Eduardo Vasco, even going further than Valle himself, shows us that in Spain the past does not die in the past, that it is there around every corner. The viewer of ‘Luces de Bohemia’ wants to accompany Max and Valle on their infernal descent, also put their heart under that guillotine and lose their minds.
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