From tomorrow until 19 February, the Teatro Español in Madrid presents Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest.
Directed by David Selvas and starring María Pujalte, Pablo Rivero, Paula Malia, Ferran Vilajosana, Paula Jornet, Albert Triola and Gemma Brió, this performance is a perfect dream of theatre, a merciless and eccentric comedy, perfect, beautiful and dreamlike like the life of a rose in the strange walls of a vertical garden. A delicate rose that reminds us of the ephemeral and revealing nature of beauty and life.
Wilde works a great deal of territory through which his characters wander: love, desire, origins, commitment, hypocrisy, identity and, above all, freedom, his much-loved freedom to be who he was, which led him to prison shortly after writing The Importance of Being Earnest. This feeling of freedom is present throughout the play. And perhaps the clearest concretisation of this freedom is seen in two of the female characters, Gwendolen and Cecily, who live their dream life as intensely, if not more so, than their real life. Where are the limits of each of us? Why do we censor ourselves? How can we become fully ourselves? Tickets can be purchased at this link.
