Erotic Alleluia accompanied by The Little Altarpiece and other poems by Federico García Lorca
Compañía Metatarso
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| Cast: | Emilio Gavira (Don Perlimplín), Olivia Delcán (Belisa), Berta Ojea (Marcolfa), Cristina Otero (Mother), Peru Saizprez (The Poet) |
| Adaptation: | Alberto Conejero |
| Sets and Stage design: | María de Prado |
| Illustrator: | Javier García Herrero |
| Lighting Design: | Manolo Ramírez |
| Costume Design: | Ana López Cobos |
| Wardrobe Assistant: | Paola de Diego |
| Music by: | Room 603 |
| Photography: | David Díez |
| Stage Manager: | Cristina Otero |
| Produced by: | Metatarso y Festival de Otoño a Primavera (Comunidad de Madrid) |
| Chief Technician: | Álvaro Delgado |
| Distribution: | Salbi Senante |
| Production Manager: | Cristina Otero |
| Assistant Director: | Javier L. Patiño |
| Directed by: | Darío Facal |
'Restless, bold and always interesting, Metatarso is always open to new languages'.
EL DUENDE
Madrid director Darío Facal joins the programme of the 33rd Edition of the Festival de Otoño a Primavera tackling a classic of Spanish literature with his company Metatarso: Federico García Lorca's Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su Jardín (Love of Mr. Perlimpíln with Belisa in her Garden). His partner for the task is none other than Alberto Conejero, in charge of the adaptation of Lorca's text and one of the most celebrated playwrights thanks to texts such as La piedra oscura (The Dark Stone), Cliff or Todas las noches en un día (All The Nights in One Day). The staging is co-produced by the Festival de Otoño a Primavera and can be seen at its world premiere at the Teatro de La Abadía from April 20th to 24th. It explore, universal subjects such as love and betrayal from a contemporary point of view.
Written between 1922 and 1926 and premiered in 1933, Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su Jardín is a masterpiece of farce that ends in tragedy, mixing lyrical and gortesque moments onstage. In the play, Don Perlimplín (played here by Emilio Gavira) is an elderly man who, proud of having remained a bachelor all his life, is convinced by his servant Marcolfa (Berta Ojea) to marry his neighbour Belisa (Olivia Declán), a tender teenager offered unashamedly and almost by force by her mother (Cristina Otero). But tragedy explodes on the wedding night when, despite Perliplín's confession of his love for Belisa, she falls for another man with whom she is having a passionate romance. Aware of the deception, Perlimplín will have to decide how to respond to this treachery.
This new adaptation of the text staged by the Metatarso company mixes the original text with fragments of El Retablillo de don Cristóbal plus poems and other texts by Lorca. These fragments are interspersed by a special character, the Poet, played by Peru Saizprez. Generating surprising parallels and resonances thus enriching the drama's text and turning it into a piece full of contrasts, humour and violence.