The Arriaga Theater in Bilbao hosts this coming weekend the premiere, in Basque and Spanish, of the new production by the company Tanttaka, “My son just walks a little slower”, the work of the Croatian author Ivor Martinic who has garnered several awards.
Fernando Bernués directs this new show, which has a cast made up of Miren Arrieta, Klara Badiola, Mireia Gabilondo, Asier Hernández, Xabi “Jabato” López, María Redondo, Martxelo Rubio, Jose Ramon Soroiz, Dorleta Urretabizkaia and Ander Iruretagoiena, according to informed the Bilbao theater.
Tanttaka stages a play that has been performed in numerous countries and that has the virtue of being located in many places that are not the one that is really reflected in the text, located in the Balkans.
It talks about Mia, an essential woman in her house, who fights against her demons while taking care of her mother, her father, her daughter and her husband, but she especially stays awake for her son Branko, who suffers from an unnamed disease. degenerative that is making him lose mobility.
Branko’s 25th birthday is celebrated on stage, a trigger to speak “with humor, simplicity and brutal sincerity” about memory, family, the passage of time, the acceptance of those who are different, youth, love, fear, loneliness, beauty, abandonment, madness or illness.
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