‘Untitled comedy’: Lorca’s unfinished work comes out on stage in the voice of young people

The murder of Federico Garcia Lorca 85 years ago he truncated the completion of works such as ‘Untitled comedy’. An unfinished text that, despite the fact that he only the first act is preserved, now returns to the scene with an unusual adaptation: all its interpreters are under 30 years of age.

A bet of the National Dramatic Center for bring the theater closer to the youngest and convince them that, beyond the screens and social networks, their life is also represented on stage.

Its aesthetics, although it may be reminiscent of a series or fashion video clip, does not contain ‘likes’ or ‘retweets’, but rather poetry and pain. “I think it’s a revolution,” says actor Alejandro Jato. “It is a kind of wick, which appears on the scene and suddenly explodes you in the face, “says actress María Pizarro.

“It is a material of strong youthful power“, says José Manuel Mora, one of the authors of this version of ‘Untitled Comedy’, in which the playwright promises” to see something that is not seen in the series or in the cinema. “

A production with which the theater wants to drag young people to their seats and, for this, pulls the emerging pool of interpreters in our country. “Are 14 very young actors, under thirty… And we have thrown ourselves with a machete, “says one of them, Georgina Amorós.

The work, written 85 years ago by the Andalusian poet and of which only the first act is preserved because he was assassinated before finishing it, continues to be, paradoxically, A reflection of realityAccording to the director of the play, Marta Pazos: “Three months ago they killed Samuel Luiz shouting ‘fag’ and 85 years ago they killed Lorca shouting ‘fag’. I think it is absolutely pertinent to bring this text here“, he maintains.

With this, they also intend to put light on those shadows. “Suddenly there is a diversity, you see all kinds of bodies, of people“Explains María Pizarro.” Hopefully it does not have to be lived as a revolution that there are young and diverse people on stage, “says Jato, who hopes that” many people can come “to enjoy this trip, that It can be seen until December 26 at the María Guerrero Theater in Madrid.