When the curtain falls for the last time, it will initially be in June and on tour, ‘Adictos’ will have more than 400 performances since its premiere in 2022. Lola Herrera, Ana Labordeta and Lola Baldrich return to Madrid, again to the Teatro Reina Victoria, with this text directed by Magüi Mira with which to reflect on new technologies, ethics and values ​​as a driver of social progress.

‘Adictos’ returns to Madrid after a year and a half tour. How has the audience reacted theater to theater?

Lola Herrera. We have connected with this story. In the theater it is important to tour Spain, the country, with everything I have done in my life I have always toured Spain, its theaters, to meet its audience. With this work we have been doing our job, a job of three actresses who defend the role, who take care of it and pamper it. There is a lot of complicity between us and that is also transmitted. We go from place to place delighted with life, with the theaters full and with a beautiful acceptance of the performance and our work.

They deal with a current topic such as new technologies, including artificial intelligence. Technology at the service of human beings. Will the tables be turned one day and will human beings be the ones at the service of technology?

Lola Baldrich. We open a melon of debate and reflection to the people, when they leave they leave talking about it in a generational way, parents with children, grandchildren with grandparents… We make them reflect. When they wait for us after the performance they always tell us: ‘It’s a very interesting work’, ‘How true!’ or even ‘How scary!’ And it is almost a thriller.

Ana Labordeta. Everything should be at the service of the citizen: science, politics, information, but we are in a moment in which the human being himself is complicated and twisted, we have a dark part there. In the end things end up being anything but for the interest and well-being of the citizen, and that is also what the function talks about.

Ana Labordeta: “Seeing Lola Herrera is always a delight, an acting lesson on stage”

Why do you have to see ‘Addicts‘?

Lola Herrera. To see three women defending paths towards a truth, or a reality that they are distorting. Three women united with three very different characters, but tuned in at a certain moment to fulfill a goal, which is to claim that women can also do important things in humanity, in addition to giving birth.

Ana Labordeta. Seeing Lola Herrera is always a delight, a lesson in acting on stage, and that is very important. In addition, it is a function that makes you reflect without too much darkness on a current moment. It is necessary to listen to what this function says so that each one can then reflect and do what they want and can.

Lola Baldrich. You have to go to the theater, it is one of the last strongholds of humanity, to feel how the actresses cry, how they breathe, make silences and listen to each other. Nor should we miss the opportunity to see one of the greats we have left and for a long time, such as Lola Herrera, with two squires, who are not bad either (smiles). ‘Addicts’ shines because there is an almost oily understanding of care on stage. It is a good afternoon and an invitation to hear interesting words that make us reflect.

Report sexual abuse

We know more and more cases of sexual abuse of women in the entertainment industry, they have always been there. Now the voice is raised and denounced.

Ana Labordeta. It was necessary and essential, it was time. You have to do it like many people are doing it, truthfully. In my case I have been very lucky, it has never happened to me, but I do know of very close cases, it is a reality.

Lola Herrera. I have been in the profession for more than 60 years, when I arrived it was not a shameless thing but it was known, so I have been quite lucky, or perhaps this Valladolid thing, dry, in my education everything was a danger. There was a theater manager in Madrid who for many years called the girls to his office and showed them his stuff. This is known and known by the entire profession. In general, these abuses were not known before, because in order for it to be known, it has to be told.

Lola Herrera: “The dictatorship left its mark in all aspects, at that time women were able to walk very little”

And now it is counted. What has changed?

Lola Herrera. It has changed that women have taken giant steps. The dictatorship left its mark on all aspects, at that time women were able to walk very little, rather we retraced our steps. Afterwards we have been taking steps, steps and more steps until we reach a wonderful point. What does not seem wonderful to me is that there continues to be this machismo that kills women because a man cannot control her as he did before. Instead of letting go, they kill.

Politics and theater

Given the turn of the conversation, we would like to know your opinion on the current political situation in the country. How do you see it?

Lola Herrera. I don’t know whether to talk about politicians, not because I don’t have my opinion, which I do. When politicians talk about theater, I will talk about politics. In general, although there are exceptions, the vast majority of them do not blame us for anything, nothing more than to call us puppeteers. But come on, the country is not going to break up.

Lola Herrera: “Whether one or another governs us is everyone’s problem. When people are going to cast their ballot, they have to know the consequences”

To call them puppeteers and to censor, because it seems that censorship has returned.

Lola Herrera. If steps are taken against what has been recovered and steps backwards, it is logical that it will return. We have to reflect, people have to think, this is everyone’s problem, whether one or another governs us is everyone’s problem. When people are going to cast their ballot they have to know the consequences, it’s not that I like this one or that other, you have to know the approximate consequences, there are some trends that are very clear and we cannot go back, we cannot go back, he tells you one who was born a year before the war.

They imagined that they were going to veto plays for the simple fact that the actors came out in their underwear or there was a kiss between two people of the same sex.

Ana Labordeta. Listening to what they think, what they think and what they have been doing, it was obvious that they were going to censor everything they didn’t like.

Lola Herrera. His theory is to return to the bloomers to do gymnastics, that is what awaits people who take that path.

Ana Labordeta. What we do ask politicians is to not make so much noise, there is a lot, a lot, a lot of noise. The citizen is not up to that. Life is already complicated enough to have to put up with its noise, that is not politics.

Lola Baldrich: “We must reflect deeply on why the extremes are returning. Is it a matter of the population being fed up due to disaffection?

Against this noise, what better than to consume culture to generate a critical society that knows where it is going.

Lola Herrera. Yes, and by watching the news you can also make decisions. There is a kind of accompaniment when it comes to voting. We ordinary citizens have a great responsibility for what happens in the country, for better and for worse. You don’t have to go vote just to vote. Out of self-interest we must think about what we want. There are politicians who have good restraint and good tone, a medium tone that is appreciated.

Lola Baldrich. We must reflect deeply on why the extremes are returning. Is it a matter of the population being fed up with this disaffection? And politicians, in general, have become the stars of the moment, with their photos, their discussions, the debates, the insults, the expletives…

Lola Herrera. And the big lies, it’s almost sick, it’s a very regrettable perversion.

Recognitions for an entire career

Lola, more than 70 years of a successful career in theater, film and television. In March she will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Union of Actors and Actresses, and a few months ago she received the Talía Honor Award from the Academy of Performing Arts. What does she feel when her colleagues recognize her work? Even she will receive the Biznaga ‘Paradise City‘ at the Malaga Film Festival!

Is the most! Because no one knows what the profession is better than a colleague, which is why these recognitions are so valuable to me. They know that this work is very hard, that’s why I appreciate it very much and it makes me very excited. But come on, this is because of my age, almost by elimination, that time has come… I have had awards throughout my life because I did a lot of television and there was a time when they gave out a lot of awards, and now, look, in the movies They have also welcomed me and are going to pamper me with the Biznaga de Málaga, a very special award, I am happy.