“Cockroach with landscape in the background” by Mujer en Obras will be a vehicle to problematize the times in which we live – | ACHTUNG!

2024-01-10 01:01:42

On January 13 and 14 it will be performed at the TNT Theater (Seville), Cockroach with landscape in the backgroundA production of Woman in works. Which is part of this season’s programming at the Lope de Vega Theater (Seville).

The director of this creation, Javier Ballesteroscomments in an interview that Emma Álvarez did with her for the digital media Madrid Theaterthat what inspired him to put it together was:

“Marina Garcés’s book “The New Radical Illustration” fell into my hands and enlightened me a lot. It speaks of the end of the planet that we humans need to live on, taking it for granted. And it was very revealing, and then I found the tardigrade and saw some great dramatic possibilities as an heir. Science is using it to synthesize it and see if we can make use of some of the powers of it.

“There is a bourgeois European fear that we have because in other countries the end of the world came a long time ago.”

For me to put these words in dialogue with the synopsis of Cockroach with landscape in the background, I find it most chilling, since it is difficult to predict when our “developed Western world” ways of life will go completely out of our reach. For some time now, the people who belong to us within the Millennial generation (along with those who came and will come next), have assumed that we will not live as well or better than our parents, but from there we will witness a “ collapse”, seems implausible. More than anything because of our ways of approaching our daily lives, of individualizing our experiences…

This is not about doubting the forecasts on issues such as the repercussions that climate change will have on the quality of life of human beings, the fact that we increasingly live in more unequal societies, the widespread difficulties of accessing one’s own and decent housing. , etc…, but in reality, to ask ourselves to what extent we have been inhabiting a total fiction, and how much we are clinging to the fact that it is not going to disappear, at least, until we die. Anyway, everything that is said before watching this montage of the company Woman in Works It will be pure speculation, or worse still, creating an unnecessary predisposition. For now, I am going to refer you to the synopsis of this piece that won two 2023 Max Prize for Best New Show and Best New Author for Javier Ballesteros:

A lost spa where women who cannot have children go to take the waters. A seedy place where nurses and patients reside, women suspended in an infinite waiting time whose integrity will be in danger with the arrival of an undesirable visitor.

The desire to be a mother and the extinction of the human being as the maximum conclusion of environmentalism on Earth. These are some of the topics on which the company Mujer En Obras focuses its research in this original work that combines verse and prose. Guided by a chorus similar to that of the Greek classics, the characters will use this dialectical convention to carry out their entanglements and play between tragedy, poetry and the comedy of the absurd.