The Ionian island of Ithaca is synonymous with returning from Odyssey Homer places it on the imaginary map – or imaginado – of the Western literary tradition.
However, one has to do an exercise that is quite the opposite of what Ulises does at home. En Three nights in Ithacathe theatrical text of Alberto Conejer, which this year 6 will see the light in Nave 10 Matadero under the direction of María Goiricelaya, Alicia, a teacher of classic gray Spanish, from work, family and home and moves to Itaca to avoid flying jamás.
“It’s a quixotic gesture to live in a place that’s having a moment about fiction. And Ithaca is the heart Odysseyone of our basic relationships. As Cavafy’s poem says: “We will understand what the Ítacas mean”, explains Conejero in an interview with El Cultural.
Alicia’s hijabs are worn on gray island when20 years later, he received word that his mother had failed. Three actors (interpreted by Cecilia Freire, Marta Nieto and Amaia Lizarralde) whose names we will hear: Penélope, Ariadne and Elena. “Alicia decides to name her hijas after her beloved gray world against her husband’s wishes.
It is in the relationship of these women with their predecessor that the story of Three nights in Ithaca. “Have Alicia before Ithaca and after; the hijas on the island will find out who the woman on her mother was.
Cecilia Freire, Marta Nieto and Amaia Lizarralde in “Tres noches en Ítaca”. Photo: @geraldineleloutre.
Poet Anne Carson gives us a kind look at our fathers to understand the excitement and renunciation they bring to the people behind those big words “mother” and “father.”
The playwright defines that we meet before tragicomedy, we can begin with death to explain our life, “and because quizzes are always looking for the ridiculous and the sublimebecause he understands humor as a form of resistance, because it is based on a bond that is not an escapist but a political decision in times as regretful as ours.
In Conejer, we know him from other very relevant works, such as The Dark Stone, an authentic success when he started in 2014 with the last lover of Federico García Lorca as the main heroine and who will now lead a second life forming part of the triptych about the Granada poet that Los Javis is preparing for him this year.
On the montage that elevates Goiricelay, the poet also comments: “She is free and respectful. María is a brave woman who puts servitude and artistic rigor above all transformations.”
As the story continues, a Greece that goes beyond what we know in terms and themes: “It is a country that many people are looking for, with all its contradictions and heritage, and in which we have lived for a long time. There is a Greece that is alive more than the clichés of its classical past, a Greece that is uniquely Hellenic, Byzantine, Ottoman, Sephardic…”. The village, from where you march and don’t turn around.
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