Mercè Aránega is a Jessica Fletcher in search of identity
Ramon Simó and Magda Puyo manage to transform this search for anti-Franco family origins into theatre
- Author: Carme RieraDramaturgy: Ramon Simó i Magda PuyoPerformers: Mercè Aránega and Antònia JaumeDirector: Magda PuyoAtrium Theater (Until June 7)
Carme Riera won the Sant Jordi prize (2003) with La meitat de l'ànima, an intrigue novel for which Ramon Simó and Magda Puyo have created a very fluid stage version, overcoming the difficulties inherent in a highly literary story, linked to the anti-Francoism of the fifties and sixties and anchored in public figures such as writers Albert Camus and Jorge Semprún, the anarchist and maquis Quico Sabaté, and the leader of the Lliga and former minister of Alfonso XIII Josep Bertran Musitu, who are only references for generations who already comb white hair.
The virtue lies in maintaining the tension and with it the curiosity of the protagonist and the audience to resolve the many questions that arise from a writer's investigation into her family. A writer of notable success who, one fine day, receives a bundle of letters that dismantle her own story and raise a host of unknowns about who her father was and who her mother really was. An –as always– excellent Mercè Aránega is a kind of Jessica Fletcher, accompanied by a very effective Antònia Jaume as the therapist who helps her in an investigation, which attests to the difficulty of finding the truth of history when there is no conclusive data.
until a surprising ending – if the novel has not been read – which logically we cannot reveal.
S'ha escrit un crim up to a surprising ending –if the novel has not been read– which logically we cannot reveal.
