it was enough go against the tide, rebel against an unfair situation, report sexual abusejust going arm-in-arm with the wrong person. Inside XIX century all of these women considered “hysterical” i.e. hysterical. This is how I channeled Jean Martin CharcotForerunner of Freud and creator of the pioneering work that led him to win Europe-wide recognition.
Another thing is what those women thought, many simply revolt, it’s an oppressive world, and some segments of society who saw how the hospital was La Sapetrière it happened respected neurological institutebut also in a system to which patients, if any, are subjected being forced to present insults and representations disguised as Ophelia or Lady Macbeth to propose public lectures that they have become a spectacle rather than a healing method.
This historical episode caught Lola Blasco’s attention to work on it.feminization of madness, hysteria». There is a mobility aid ministry of culture and then a residence in La Chartreuse (National Center for Screenwriting) avignon. There he explored Visited La Sapêtrière hospital –“one of the most perverted scenarios in recent history”, says and begins to take shape mad theatre, The work to be produced by the National Drama Center in-house Timing for 2024.
Authorship and direction
The playwright from Alicante is also in charge direction of this projectJuanjo Llorens from Alicante participated in the lighting and Luis Crespo in the set design. «I bought it with great enthusiasm, especially for the type of work I wanted to do, and I see that a text of mine doesn’t change that much», he assures. “It’s about the fact that I want my stories to be represented as I envision them; It is true that I also like to give other directors the opportunity to interpret what they see in my work, but now I felt the need to see it the way I wanted».
Blasco points out that his work has been reviewed. the beginning of psychoanalysis “and again how much it has to do with the feminine and hysteria from the word womb.”
A metatheatric story
La historia de las locas is a meta-theatre about how a company will stage a play about insanity and incarceration, “but in the end they repeat some of the roles that Charcot, like a theater director, worked with.” sessions are open to the public “as if it were a show” went to the actress Sarah Bernhardt».
Lola Blasco also talks about very different situations. sculptor Camille Claudel and painter Van Gogh. “In the hospital where he was closed, you can see the entire file of his actions and the drugs he used, such as his clinical history; But in the case of Van Gogh, if you go to the psychiatric hospital where he is, you will see laminated works explaining when he did each of them».
In this sense, he received the 2016 National Award for Dramatic Literature for his work. My century, my beast “There is a kind of reading in my work, but not from a simple place, but rather speaks of a practically invented disease».
they said hysteria He was treated with a dildo. “Hysteria always deals with the genitals,” says Lola Blasco, remembering Charcot’s words. “What we understand by madness throughout history has always been associated with attributes of the feminine.”