Until next November 2, the Teatro Español presents in its hall Margarita Xirgu the play El pesimismo alegre (Mi suicidio), by Henry Roorda, directed by Fernando Bernués and performed by Mario Gas.
The team takes up with a new staging this text by Roorda that he already put on with great success between 2001 and 2004. On the 100th anniversary of the author’s suicide, the Tanttaka theatre company takes up this text with a profound and decisive sincerity, but full of humor and irony.
In El pesimismo alegre, a book of profound and decisive sincerity, Henri Roorda delves into the essential questions of life, love, society, work, pleasure, while preparing its end. It is an existentialist text avant la lettre, concise, as pure as the beauty that tied it to life. Henri Roorda was not a sick, desperate being or seized by an impossible passion. He had been a dandy, a taster of “earthly foods,” a sensual man who enjoyed worldly pleasures. His words were written literally a hundred years ago, shortly before their author shot himself in the heart. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
