Until next February 23, the Teatro Fernán-Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid presents in its room Jardiel Poncela the work Los gigantes de la montaña ( The giants of the mountain), by Luigi Pirandello.
The key play by the Italian playwright and Nobel Prize winner in literature, Luigi Pirandello, The Giants of the Mountain was conceived in the 1920s and published periodically in the literary magazine La Nuova Antologia, and in Quadrivium.
Luigi Pirandello left his last text unfinished. It often happens that the masters of the performing arts macerate their material throughout their life and distill it into a final ode to the theatre. Two examples: The Punishment without Revenge, by Lope de Vega, or The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. This work, which is above the previous works of the author and his contemporaries, belongs to this corpus and is installed in the history of theatrical performance.
The Giants still live high on the mountain and decide the path that we mortals must walk. And we, mortals, for hundreds of reasons, finally accept their directive so that our life passes through the channels they create, far from illusion, imagination, risk. These Giants have made it so that while we are content to be, we do not ask ourselves what we wish to be. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
