The Teatro Lope de Vega has presented today Friday at a press conference the absolute premiere of its next theatrical production, a passing man, a critical and personal contemporary reflection on memory and the Holocaust that marks the return to the stage of actor Antonio de la Torre from Malaga after a decade without doing theater and which can be enjoyed for the first time in Seville from January 27 to 30 in a total of five functions. In addition to the interpreter, the event was attended by the mayor, Antonio Muñoz; the director of Lope de Vega, Carlos Forteza; the director of the work, Manuel Martín Cuenca; and the interpreters María Morales and Juan Carlos Villanueva, who complete the cast.
During his speech, Muñoz highlighted this production, which has the collaboration of Lope de Vega, whom he pointed out as a reflection of “the new philosophy of what is the great theater of Seville and a benchmark throughout the country”. Likewise, he has expressed his satisfaction with the fact that “the Sevillian public and those who visit us will have the opportunity to see for the first time on stage this magnificent proposal that is an absolute premiere in the city and that will continue from here on an important tour national”.
Directed by renowned filmmaker from Almeria Manuel Martín Cuenca (with whom De la Torre has worked on the big screen on such successful titles as The author, Cannibal The Half of Oscar) and written by the film director, producer and screenwriter, Felipe Vega, who makes his debut here as a playwright, the play also features Andalusian actors María Morales (nominated for a Goya in 2014 for All the women) and Juan Carlos Villanueva (The author, The Minimum Island, El Niño…).
Specifically, De la Torre (the Spanish actor with the most Goya nominations) puts himself in the shoes of Maurice Rossel, an enigmatic and polyhedral character made to measure for the man from Malaga, in which he plays a former collaborator of the International Red Cross during World War II who, by chance, manages to “sneak” into Auschwitz and talk to the camp commander. About his controversial version of what he saw there, he is interviewed by an incisive journalist –played by Morales–, who pushes him to tell the truth and assume the consequences of his contradictory and inconsistent testimony. Primo Levi, writer, chemist by profession and survivor of the extermination camp, who is also played by Juan Carlos Villanueva from Córdoba, completes this triangle as a privileged witness whose lucidity serves as a counterweight to proclaim the horror of which, in his case, he neither wanted nor Could escape.
A) Yes, a passing man confronts two radical and opposite experiences that force us to question the role of memory: what can we remember and why do we do it? What are we capable of denying and imagining? Or what do we want to remember and why? and about how we deal with experiences.
For Martín Cuenca, the character of Rossel opens up “an endless number of questions for the viewer because, despite the fact that he says he has not seen anything, we cannot know if he really did not see, did not want to see or, perhaps, he limited himself to not seeing anything. see”. In this way, he adds, Vega has managed to bring us closer to the terror of the Holocaust from a “tremendously contemporary” perspective in a bare, tense and suffocating atmosphere, with an almost non-existent set where only light intervenes.
After its premiere at the Lope de Vega, the play will embark on its national tour with a first stop in Madrid, where it can be seen at the Naves of the Spanish Theater in Matadero between February 3 and 20.
a passing man
Dates: January 27, 28, 29 and 30.
Schedule: Thursday 27 and Friday 28, at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday 29, at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; and January 30, at 7:00 p.m.
Place: Lope de Vega Theater (Avda. de María Luisa, s/n).
Price: From 4 to 21 euros.
Ticket Sales: https://bit.ly/33R6rQM
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