Saving a valid text from oblivion deserves public attention. And if the youth montage has attractive elements, even better. This Spanish Golden Age-era comedy, The Lady Captain, premiered in 1661 and is reminiscent of another film by Juan Pérez de Montalbán, The Nun Alférez, based on a passage from the controversial realism of Catalina de Erauso. Elvira de Vergara is not a nun and she is not running away from the convent, but her aunt wants her to be. The free adaptation of the film, written by brothers Diego and José de Figueroa y Córdoba, was directed by Mery Gregorio, one of the actors along with Irene Gomper, Airel Muñoz, Gemma Pina and Iñaki Salcedo. The young company Preciso Teatro had its premiere through the Concurs de Projectes de Producció de Arts Escèniques Alacant a Escena, and we saw it at the Caja Negra Centro Cultural Cigarreras. The actors master the spark, musicality and fluidity of the lines. Mery Gregorio offers experience and plenty of drive. They provide the optimum conditions and the other two players fulfill their assigned roles. The basic question is to evoke another era with the historical situation of women and the incipient feminism. He goes as a knight and joins the army. Isn’t this believable? She takes on this new identity, and a series of scenes show us a woman’s ambition when female desires conflict with the established patriarchal order. This could not be overcome. Equality between genders occurs to the extent that everyone wears the same clothes. The hero competes with his brother without knowing his true personality, and the classical idea of honor, love and vanity guides us to the truth. The play ends happily. Bee Maker’s inspired script simplicity, Manolo Ramírez’s lighting design, Yago Cordero’s soundstage or visual transitions and playful emotion create a character of beautifying contemporaneity.
Source: Informacion
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