Angélica Liddell screams at the absence of God and the dictatorship of reason

2023-11-10 23:51:24

The scene is a large bullring; In the center of the albero enters Angélica Liddell, alone, sitting, with a table and a chair, with a glass of wine and some knives. She inflicts some small cuts at the level of her knees, she begins to bleed and says: “And in case those idiots are able to understand it, tell them that bullfighting is a spiritual exercise. Who said you need legs to fight? Forgetting about having a body, wanting to die, is the only thing you need to fight.” She plays the theme Asingara from Las Grecas, Liddell passes a handkerchief over his bloody legs and shows the white cloth with red traces to the audience. so it begins Love death (death of love in German). This is how the 41st edition of the Autumn Festival began this Thursday in the large room of the Teatros del Canal.

The work premiered two years ago at the Avignon Festival. Since then, Liddell has done two other jobs, Drilling (2021) y Charity (2022). Liebestod. The smell of blood can’t go away from my eyes. Juan Belmonte, which is the full title of the piece, is a prelude to these other two, and is also the work that this artist created after the two that she dedicated to her parents who had just died. Liddell is a creator who has spent years confessing in her creations her addiction to theater and writing. More than her addiction, her dependence on an art in which there is nothing to sustain her outside of it. Work or suicide, something that may sound exaggerated but is not so exaggerated.