On March 15, it will be performed at the Alameda Theater in Seville, Segismundos. the art of seeingby the hand of Cía. National Classical Theatre / Antonio Alamo. First of all, I am going to give you a presentation on this Andalusian professional.
His career confirms him as one of the great playwrights of our time. His extensive dramatic work, which includes novels, short stories and theater, has been translated into French, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Arabic, Russian, Italian and English and a large number of his plays have been performed both in Spain like abroad. He is also the author of versions and dramaturgies, both by classical and contemporary authors. He has also collaborated in different journalistic media and has given dramatic creation workshops in Spain and Mexico. He has been director of the Lope de Vega Theater in Madrid and has received, among others, the Marqués de Bradomín Award, the Tirso de Molina Award, the Ercilla Award and the Born Award.
In recent years, rereading great classics of literature has become almost a genre, as is the case with Segismundos. the art of seeing. To the point that one does not know whether to strive to study the work from which it starts, it would be enough to have a couple of orientations extracted from the Wilkipedia, or simply, let it be done because the final is a contemporary work. Along these lines, Antonio Álamo himself has commented that although it is true that this piece comes from The life is dream of Calderón de la Barca, in the end it has not been more than his starting point.
So, in the event that we are not very familiar with this 17th century text, will we miss relevant details, or did this montage go its “own way”? Has this Andalusian professional transformed both The life is dream because he needed to approach it from another place, or on the contrary, he has assumed that in the history of western literature we spend all the time touching on the same themes, and for this he takes advantage of well-known characters? In short, I am confident that with the representation of Segismundos. The art of living and the colloquium that will follow, everything will be more clarified. In the meantime, he leaves you with a preview of this piece:
How easy it is to recognize yourself in Segismundo, who seems to be awake when he dreams and asleep when he lives. He several times claims to know who he is, as many times as he feels confused. Is he a poor devil locked in a dungeon or a prince? What does the dream of living consist of? Now, at this very moment, are you sure we’re not asleep? And how could we be sure? Are we masters of the dream or is it the one that owns and shakes us? SEGISMUNDOS. THE ART OF SEEING is an inclusive work based on the protagonist of the Calderonian work “Life is a dream”.