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Flamenco, I don’t know how to explain it. I've suffered a lot. If you haven’t suffered, how will you suffer in flamenco? To be flamenco, one needs to have a cause. Here, now, this is empty, there’s no cause. What’s the cause? First you have to be with a woman you love. And then you leave her or she leaves you. And there you have the suffering and the moan If you don’t have a cause, why would you sing?
Manuel de los Santos, Agujetas
Angelica Liddell probes suffering in her new show,Terebrante. She does it appealing to the cantaor , Manuel Agujetas, and his existential pain, the essence of flamenco. “If you haven't suffered, what flamenco are you going to sing?”, declared the Jerez-born artist, died last year. The biggest suffering is caused by terebrant pain, "a pain", affirms Liddell, “capable of destroying the world’s breast", as if someone were drilling into the centre of a stab wound. This pain is expressed through the seguiriya,the primitive and tragic chant of flamenco.
Angélica Liddell
Born in Figueres, Girona, in 1966, Angélica Liddell is writer, theatral director, actress and one of the most unclassifiable Spanish creators and with the greatest international projection. She formed the company Atra Bilis Teatro in 1993. Her works have been presented all around the world. Among her latest works, El año de Ricardo,Todo el cielo sobre la tierra (El síndrome de Wendy),El ciclo de las resurrecciones and, recently, Qué haré yo con esta espada, have been premiered at such prestigious places as the Festival d’Avignon, Wiener Festwochen, la Schaubühne de Berlin, and the Théâtre de l’Odeón in Paris. Among other acknowledgements, she received the National Award for Drama Literature from the Ministry of Culture in Spain in 2012 and in 2013, she was awarded the Silver Lion at the Biennale Teatro in Venice. She has recently received the Leteo 2016 award for literature. In 2017, she was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by he Ministry of Culture and Communication of the French Republic.