Javier Ballesteros / MUJER EN OBRAS
| Writing and direction: | Javier Ballesteros |
| Starring: | Kira Anzizu, Laura Barceló, Pilar Bergés, Eva Chocrón, Virginia de la Cruz, Matilde Gimeno, María Jáimez, Violeta Orgaz and Bárbara Santa-Cruz |
| Assistant director: | Víctor Nacarino |
| Costume and stage space: | Ernesto Artillo |
From my window I see a school.
Empty since the confinement began.
I see how it rains over it every day and I imagine the water destroys
it. That a school in the spring needs someone to fix the leaks.
In a moment of delirium, I really worry and think about calling the
fire department. That school needs to be opened. The water must be let
out or the building could collapse.
I haven't seen any children for forty days.
Children have become a secret, something expensive.
However, I see many dogs. Dogs at all times.
Dogs have won the battle with children. With humans.
When everything explodes, animals will win the land. They will get it
back. And the children we had to defend it... What will we do with them
then? The mother that gave birth to them. I'm very interested in her.
Them, mothers.
Who diseducate them to give them a place, a reason, a motive.
Through Confines, I am interested in benefiting from the experience of
mothers who have begun to recognise their children during the confinement.
The aim is to create original texts that gather these testimonies, making a
poetic leap in language to question the status of superior species that we
have given ourselves.
This project will be carried out by the company MUJER EN OBRAS, for which I
have been writing and directing for four years. I find the nature of the
company, as well as the number of mothers (or currently pregnant women)
that make up the company, ideal for addressing these issues.
Javier Ballesteros
Trained with Juan Carlos Corazza, Fernanda Orazi, Manuel Morón, Hernán
Gené, Pablo Messiez and Fernando Piernas, among others, Madrid actor Javier
Ballesteros has participated in TV series such as
Hospital Central, La pecera de Eva, Sin identidad, Apaches, La Zona and
Justo antes de Cristo
(Central Hospital, Eva's fish tank, No identity, Apaches, The zone and Just
before Christ), as well as in the films Sordo (The silent war), by
Alfonso Cortés Cavanillas, and Como la espuma (Like foam), by
Roberto Pérez-Toledo.
In theatre, we have recently seen him in Las canciones (The
songs), by Pablo Messiez, a show that premiered at El Pavón Teatro
Kamikaze, and in La ola (The wave), by Marc Montserrat Drukker, a show
presented at the Teatro Valle-Inclán - CDN. His professional experience in
theatre began with the company Erre que Erre, with which he made his debut
in La Tempestad (The Storm) and Salomé. He has also
participated in Fernanda Orazi’s productions Encarnación
(Incarnation), El futuro (The future) and El rumor analógico de las cosasa (The analogical rumour of
things). He has also worked as assistant director in Cuatro confesiones (Four confessions), by Bárbara Santa-Cruz, a
production premiered in Fringe14, and Petra, by Estefanía Cortés,
seen in La Casa de la Portera.
He has written and directed the short films Matar (To kill), for
which he won the prize for best actor at the Notodofilmfest, Mirada perdida (Blank stare) and Perfiles (Profiles),
co-directed with Bárbara Santa-Cruz.
His interest in stage direction led him to form the company MUJER EN OBRAS
in 2016, which premiered its first piece, LA, at Teatros del Canal and
Surge Madrid. He is currently immersed in the rehearsals of the company's
new project, the original play Cucaracha con paisaje de fondo
(Cockroach with landscape in the background).