The French princess Margaret of Anjou is a fairly important figure in English history. Married by proxy at the age of 16 to Henry VI, she became a powerful queen renowned for her intelligence and political acumen, but also for her unwavering courage, which, as Edward Hall said, made her "more like a man than a woman." In the theater, she is a minor character in four of William Shakespeare's plays (the three parts ofHenry VI and, above all, Richard III), all of them documented from The Holinshed Chronicles (Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland), written between 1528 and 1580. "She-wolf of France, if not worse than the wolves of France," says the Duke of Suffolk in one of them.

Margaret of Anjou has more lines in Shakespeare's plays than any other woman, and even more than King Lear or Othello. And yet, the British playwright never dedicated a play to her. To rectify this injustice, director and playwright Pau Carrió has created The wolf queen, a show created from the character's appearances in the three parts ofHenry VI and in Richard III who finally sees that combative queen. "She has a singular, unique story. She interacts with power, she sees that there are struggles and she fights. In the eyes of other men, she comes to be seen as an evil character, a she-wolf," explains Carrió. The actress responsible for embodying this protagonist is Maria Rodríguez Soto, who is accompanied on stage by six men –Quim Ávila, Pepo Blasco, José Julien, Xavi Ricart, Pau Roca, and David Vert– as well as Queralt Casasayas. The show premieres this Wednesday in the Sala Petita of the TNC.

The hand (originally titled En behanding in Spokane) is the first work set in the United States by the Irishman Martin McDonagh, an author we discovered in 1999 thanks to Mario Gas and that theatrical gem called Leenane's beauty queen. Eight years ago, La Villarroel also presented The Connemara SkullPremiered on Broadway in 2010 with Christopher Walken and Elia Kazan's granddaughter (Zoe Kazan) in the cast, The hand It's a dark comedy like The skullBut somewhat more absurd and less entertaining.