‘Ours’: the family, source of conflicts

The family is the great matter in the history of theater; Your trunk matter, and has been addressed in all possible ways and from all points of view. And it is that the family is the root and origin of all conflicts, and the conflict is the fundamental engine of the theater. Lucia Carballalone of the best stamped voices in the current Spanish dramaturgy (‘an American life’, ‘the resistance’, ‘the pale’), throws in ‘ours’ of that familiar thread and intertwines it with tangent or crossed issues such as identity, traditions, rites or weight of the past in our lives.

A Sephardic woman, a descendant of a family expelled in her day by the Catholic Monarchs but back in Spain for a few decades, has died; His eldest daughter summons his closest family so that together they celebrate the ‘Avelut‘, a Jewish tradition in which family members carry out the duel for seven days away from the world. The differences of character, the views, the grudges, the pending accounts … with a leit motiv: the struggle between individuality and the collective, between the desires of personal growth and the ‘ballast’ of family feelings, between the need to open new paths and create new branches and the attractive power of the root.

Juan Mayorga It usually says that the direction of a complete function the writing of the text. Lucía Carballal follows this maxim and her facet as director illuminates a text that is – in appearance, and only in appearance – a ‘bourgeois family drama’. Designed with the public to three bands, which increases the sensation of ‘voyeur’ of the spectator and the frame of a splendid and monumentally chaotic scenery of Pablo ChavesLucía Carballal raises a show of great dynamism -only something decays in the Christmas function scene -and a raptor and disturbing aesthetic and sound beauty -the dance of the two children. The superb work of the actors -with Mona Martínez and Miki Esparbé-It rounds the goodness of the show, which again demonstrates that contemporary creation can also be ‘Theater like God commands’ -If that this theater exists, that I doubt.