From tomorrow to next July 6, the Teatro de la Abadía presents Los yugoslavos (The Yugoslavs), the latest work by playwright Juan Mayorga, artistic director of the institution since 2022. Photo: Javier Mantrana.
Sadness, love, hope and the power of words are the themes around which the work revolves. ” From the first few weeks I have been able to see that I have an extraordinary cast”, says director Juan Mayorga. Javier Gutiérrez, Luis Bermejo, Natalia Hernández and Alba Planas are responsible for giving life to this text never before represented.
The fiction takes place between four spaces that coexist on the stage beyond the scenery: a bar, a house, a city and a map. Places and not places that the characters inhabit and imagine and that are already beginning to take shape. ” For the construction of these spaces are fundamental decisions that we are taking on the scenery -signed Elisa Sanz-, the sound -by Jaume Manresa- and the light -by Juan Gómez-Cornejo”, the director points out about his collaboration with great professionals for this production of Teatro de La Abadía.
In Los Yugoslavos, it all starts when a waiter hears the conversation of a customer with another man. After the man leaves, the waiter asks the customer to talk to his wife, who has been silent for a long time. Only that client will know what’s wrong with his wife. The main characters are two men who exchange words and two women who exchange maps. But it is also a work of lost objects, characters that remind us of others from the corpus of Mayorga, of a father and his daughter, of the roar of a city, of a bar without a cook. A show in which no character stepped foot on Yugoslavia. The title alludes to a place where “real play and women dance”, a space where people who would have been born in a country that no longer exists may meet. Where are people from countries that no longer exist? Tickets can be purchased at this link.