Next February, the play Miércoles que parecen jueves (Wednesday that looks like Thursday), directed by Mario Gas with text by journalist and writer Juan José Millás and interpretation by Clara Sanchis, will be presented at the Teatro del Barrio de Madrid (calle Zurita, 20).
Wednesday that looks like Thursday is a thriller with a comedy tone. Or, a comedy with a thriller background. With humor and luminosity, and through a fascinating character, it puts into scene great themes of the Millasian universe: reality and its missteps, the power of imagination, strangeness as source of knowledge or questioning one’s own identity.
A woman breaks into the theater. At gunpoint. She is going to give a talk by Juan José Millás, but is harassed by both the author and the police. Thus, his argument will be the demonstration of a thesis to life or death: she is him. Because who dominates words, dominates reality.
Is reality real? Why do we know so much about the digestive system and so little about the imaginary system? Does the unreal have less weight in our lives than the real? Where does fantasy end and reality begin? There is the question, or questions, that the work raises. It does so with humor and brightness. And through a fascinating character, played by Clara Sanchis. The character is guided on stage by the words of the journalist and writer Juan José Millás, who displays in his text much of his favorite themes: reality and its missteps, the power of imagination, the strangeness as a source of knowledge or the questioning of one’s own identity. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
