‘La última noche con mi hermano’, emotional but broad

Last night with my brother revolves around two themes: on the one hand, we talk about the tragedy of Nagore (Nuria Mencía), which leads to the discovery of cancer. The disease is not selected, and in this case it is difficult to correct it, since the metastases are advanced. The story has been approached repeatedly in the theater (and also in the cinema); Peris-Mencheta touches on it Constellations These days at the Teatro Valle-Inclán and I have that memory Witt Rosa María Sardá faces cancer with her black irony.

Nagore enters the scene when the phone hits him he’s going public to tell us he’s dead and what comes next is “the theater of the dead to give heart to the living”. The phrase is common, but in the two hours and days we watch, we see little action and what the hell we want.

The dramatic prolongation of Nagore’s tragedy brings us to the impact that his illness will leave on his longing evenings, especially on his brother Alberto (Jesús Noguero), who is very united and who will receive the love and care that can be hoped for.

I hope that the implementation of the Mencía — which shows us the progression of the physical deterioration of the disease — she will be a contender for all the awards and honors that come her way. Sanzol wrote her a character that acts as her female alter ego, and it turns out she’s familiar to me until I shoot her Respirationa comedy that was released in 2016 in which the actress starred and gave another female touch to Sanzola, who was also oddly named Nagore.

That Nagore passed through a depressed state of mind, even between the parting of his equals, and had the hand of tragicomic and humorous leaders, as is the case here, from which also he appears directly and clearly in the form of expression, and with that warlike temperament which is typically attributed to the Navarrese; In addition, in this drama, the abogada is a laborist and abertzales sympathizer, which allows her to plead on your behalf at any time.

They meet their peers at the good brothers Nagore and Albert hermanos antagonistaswhich is represented by Ainhoa​​​​(Elisabet Gelabert) and Claudio (Cristóbal Cuevas), who have been talking to each other for several years.

It is a deliberate intention on the part of the author to keep the tension about the cause that divided them so that he does not want to reveal it, but It’s easy to guess where the shots are coming from. Ainhoa ​​​​​​​​​​​is the wife of Alberto and the mother of two chavalas (Naia and Oier), who have brought together a third pair of brothers who are also very different from each other, but all take care of the sick Nagore.

The list that accompanies Mencius is surprising: Elisabet Gelabert, is a fabulous actress with great credibility; They don’t go for Jesús Noguer, who keeps the amazing moments like making borracho to satisfy his wife, or Cristóbal Cuevas as an oncologist. Teenagers Biel Montoro and Ariadna Llovet cummplen. Applause for Vanessa Actif’s outfit, the collection of jerseys you have seen is beautiful.

Big and predictable, the work delivers optimistic spirit and love of life present in Sanzola’s comedies. Drama, but with tragicomic scenes, which is the best genre the author writes. What is new now is the theme of brotherly love, which was taken over by wild fables from Antiga such as Caín and Abel from Genesis or Eteocles and Polynices from the Theban dynasty.

Although we do not observe this in the work, it points out to me that in the program of Sanzola’s hand he confuses love between men with the idea of ​​”brotherhood” of the French republican idea. PUSH brotherhood This is what Aristotle calls “civil friendship” and refers to the bond of belonging to a political community that avoids disagreement. “However, men love each other because nature made them from their same fathers”, said the philosopher Gregory, and it is an inner love that can degenerate if they are not virtuous.