'Women of Radio': Don't miss it!
Cristina Clemente achieves a virtuous balance between comedy and drama with three actresses in a state of grace.
- Direction: Sergi Belbel
- Performers: Àngels Gonyalons, Sara Espígul, Sara Diego
- Villarroel. Until May 11
Like a punch with a velvet glove. Like a caress with an iron glove. It's not easy to make people laugh, entertain, and move people when talking about breast cancer. It wasn't easy, but Cristina Clemente manages to achieve the goal with a virtuoso balance between comedy and drama, thanks also to the excellent direction of Sergi Belbel and three actresses in a state of grace.
"That's exactly how it is." A girl who was a victim of breast cancer told me. the emotional hurricane that shakes the diseaseIt's all there. From the initial shock to the unanswered questions. From the conflict with oneself to the conflict with others. From the first diagnosis to the mastectomy and breast reconstruction. From loneliness to solidarity. From tears to laughter.
Women of Radio It is the fruit of a search stemming from a conversation, that of the author with a mother at the gates of a school. But it is also the fruit of a series of conversations with women who had gone through the ordeal or are still going through it. From this emerged three profiles of three women who had nothing in common and whom cancer connected and united. Rosa (Àngels Gonyalons), 55 years old and director of a top-rated radio program. Friendly, self-confident, and vital. Àgata (Sara Espígul), 40 years old, a nurse. A devoted landlady and mother. Carol (Sara Diego), who is not yet thirty, so sincere and direct in admitting that she is an absolute disaster.
They talk about themselves and about the disease. They speak on behalf of themselves and of the husbands and relatives with whom they converse. A true exercise in comedy that freezes when the sentence is handed down or the future is glimpsed. And the actresses tell it with absolute credibility. But let us highlight Sara Diego's stage personality with a character so vulnerable and so human that she makes herself lovable. A well-chosen stage space with a central stone that poetically evokes evil. And well done to Sergi Belbel's direction, which is back in top form. Don't miss it.
