From tomorrow Friday and until next January 25, the adaptation of Amélie Nothomb’s homonymous novel, Una forma de vida (A way of life), arrives at the Sala José Luis Alonso of Teatro de La Abadía.
Isabelle Stoffel and Juan Ceacero create this piece, which they also interpret, directed by Ceacero himself. The performance represents Nothomb’s epistolary relationship with Melvin Mapple, an Iraqi soldier who eats junk food every night in an uncontrolled manner to fill the emptiness left by war. Thus begins a way of making present the monstrosity of an absent body of which we only know something through the words of its creator, Private Mapple, but which would not exist without the power to imagine it from the one who receives these letters, Amélie Nothomb.
The project was born after the reading of the novel by Stoffel: “As soon as I read the novel, it was clear that there was a play here,” admits the artist. Nothomb proposes a reflection on “the desire we have today to compulsively fill our existential emptiness, it can be through food, like the soldier, or through networks, or writing itself” continues Isabelle Stoffel, “but it is also a work about war, the need for recognition on the part of the other to exist and also the creative process, but with some irony and with a very rich language,” he explains. Tickets are on sale at the Teatro de La Abadía website.