By Sergio Blanco / Directed by Natalia
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| By: | Sergio Blanco |
| Director: | Natalia Menéndez |
| Starring: | Juan Blanco, Cecilia Freire, Olalla Hernández, Teo Lucadamo, Goizalde Núñez and Jorge Usón |
| Stage space design: | Monica Boromello |
| Lighting design: | Juan Gómez-Cornejo |
| Costume design: | Antonio Belart |
| Video-scene design: | Álvaro Luna |
| Original music composition: | Luis Miguel Cobos |
| Co-production: | Teatro Español and Entrecajas in cooperation with the Autumn Festival of the Region of Madrid |
“For Darwin, it will be the fusion of all altruistic social instincts with rational intelligence that will finally contribute to the emergence of civilising behaviours, such as moral education, care for the sick, remedy for the disabled, social interventions in favour of the most vulnerable…”.Sergio Blanco
El salto de Darwin
(Darwin's leap) happens on the second weekend of June 1982, during which the last battle of the Falklands War takes place, culminating in surrender on 14 June. All the action takes place in different landscapes of National Route No. 40, which runs through Argentina from north to south. Each scene takes place around a 1971 Ford Falcon, in which the father, the mother, the daughter and her boyfriend cross the country to spread the ashes of the son recently killed in the battle that has taken place in the town of Puerto Darwin.
This Ford Falcon tows a small caravan with capacity for four people, on the roof of which one can see the Dead Son Spectre who, with his electric guitar, sings different music tracks from the 80's. Every time he does it -and as the route approaches the south- a gentle wind begins to blow. The same wind that comes from Beirut, Saigon, Baghdad, Kabul, Kosovo, Troy... The same wind that will eventually bring Cassandra back once again.
In words of director Natalia Menéndez: “This play moves for over 3,000 km in one weekend in June 1982. It shivers among five characters and a spectre. It shakes between comedy and tragedy. It seeks peace but is at war. We go from the "road scene" to the theatrical poetry. From the time that it seems to be, to the time that it was or could have been. It boosts the humour of many moments of the play, which are mixed with the extreme emotion caused by others. With a simple and careful stage design. That is, playing, jumping, to achieve the bet proposed by Darwin's Leap".