Until next 7 November, the Teatro de La Abadía de Madrid (calle de Fernández de los Ríos, 42) presents the work Cortázar en juego (Cortázar in game), a journey through the literary universe of one of the great authors in Spanish of the twentieth century, Julio Cortázar (1914-1984).
The theater director Natalia Menéndez directs this play, a dramaturgy conceived by José Sanchis Sinisterra and Clara Sanchis from some of the most remembered texts and others less known of the author of the innovative novel Rayuela. Pablo Rivero and Clara Sanchis are the protagonists of this playful and exciting Cortazarian immersion.
To compose Cortázar en juego, Sinisterra and Sanchis have delved into the texts of the author born in Belgium, where his father worked at the Argentine embassy, and settled much of his life in France. Both playwrights propose a route in which the viewer can, according to Natalia Menéndez, “weave” his own plot of the play.
The regular reader of Cortázar will recognize mythical stories like Casa tomada and Graffitti, the funny Manual of instructions or fragments of Rayuela. And those who have occasionally been curious to delight in the unusual fabulations and characters caught up in life’s plot, will enter into that universe of perplexity that is the creation of the Argentine writer.
To find the key to this exciting and mysterious universe, the playwrights dived into the lesser known theater of the genius writer until they reached his radio play Goodbye Robinson. Thus, they dedicate a tribute “to the man and writer who so solid bridges laid between America and Europe and who so intimately knew how to unite aesthetic freedom with ethical commitment”. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
