The Diplomat in Spain

Until 5 May, as part of the II Cycle of Theatre and Human Rights, the Teatro Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa presents the play El protocolo del quebranto.

Directed by Mario Vega, the play is performed by Marta Viera, Mingo Ruano and Luifer Rodríguez.

El protocolo del quebranto asks whether a war is just, how are enemies created, is there a human loophole amidst so much destruction, who decides wars, is there morality in who wins?

Crezk, whose origin and flag are unknown, pursues the territories where the war is taking place. He carries an itinerant contraption he calls Osel, where he lives and hides gunpowder and small ammunition with which he deals, without caring who is friend and who is foe. His sister Nadia, a strange, almost monstrous woman, lives barricaded with him. They need and repel each other, like two-headed animals.

One night, Osel’s wandering owner finds a badly wounded man (Luján) with a camera in his left hand and an injured foot. Crezk helps him, in no good Samaritan spirit, as he senses in him a servant to help him drag his contraption. But he soon discovers that what started out as a welcome turns into an invasion and… maybe a war for survival. Tickets can be purchased at this link.