Until 19 June, Teatros del Canal in Madrid will be presenting Polar, a tragic comedy in three acts written and directed by Rulo Pardo, in its Sala Negra.
Starring Cristina Gallego, Natalia Hernández, Secun de la Rosa and Chema Adeva, Polar is narrated by the actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón.
This work arises from attending to natural manifestations that are becoming more and more frequent nowadays. Cities and land surfaces dominated by the human species are never prepared to listen to the voice of the Earth when it roars, whether in the form of tsunamis, devastating populations, melting ice, floods, earthquakes, fires, we are never prepared. Never. One of the latest such manifestations was the snowfall in Madrid in 2021 called Filomena, which showed how a large and safe city became vulnerable to snow and weak and unstable.
The author and director Rulo Pardo comments: ‘It may seem strange to see such a message in a comedy, but precisely that the laughter and relaxation of the body is interrupted by a hard and tragic accident is the closest thing to find that sense of vulnerability between cities and nature. Who is safe from the hunger of nature then? No one. When it breaks into places where it shouldn’t, then we realise that what we call ‘our spaces’ are not so much our spaces. The earth does not belong to us. For centuries we have been pushing life into nothingness, cutting it down, depopulating it, filling it with concrete and roads, and more recently squatting large areas of land to install natural energy”. Tickets can be purchased here.
