Until the 19th of October, the Teatro Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa (Plaza de Colón, 4) presents the work Poeta (perdido) in New York, a theatrical adaptation that confronts the poems of Poeta en Nueva York with the letters that Federico García Lorca wrote to his family during his stay in the city.
With text, direction and interpretation by Jesús Torres, this play is a map through which we will travel in search of Federico and with which, perhaps, hopefully, we will end up finding ourselves.
“At the same age that I needed Federico, Federico went to America to find himself, to get lost and to meet. His adventure in New York changed his life and his writing. The Frederick who returned was another, as he said, ‘completely new, wrapped in gift paper’. He came back full of life, words and new ideas to write more poems, more works and even movies. He returned having made peace between that Lorca who everyone knew and the Federico who was still to know”, writes the director.
Neruda said that to understand Lorca you don’t have to study him; you have to love Lorca to understand him. And that is the premise of this new project of El Aedo Teatro, headed by actor, playwright and director Jesús Torres.
Federico travels to New York in search of the calm that he does not find in Madrid, but he finds a city hit by the crack of 29: chaotic, dehumanized, deeply unjust. That shock transforms his gaze and poetry forever. Through his verses and his own words, we approach the most intimate Lorca: the young man who comes excited to the great city and ends up facing his own fragility. The play takes you through the streets of New York as you walk through your own solitude on a journey filled with beauty, pain and revelation. A journey inside, where Lorca, full of life, dialogues with an injured Federico who emerges in search of his own voice. Tickets for the show can be purchased at this link.