More than three decades after its premiere, ¡Ay, Carmela!, the mythical tragicomedy by Sanchis Sinisterra, adapted for the cinema by Carlos Saura, returns to give voice to the forgotten of the Spanish War, to watch over the memory of the people.
On Sundays from 1 to 22 May, a version of this play returns to the Teatro del Barrio, directed by Yolanda Porras and performed by Guillermo Serrano and Paula Iwasaki. Carmela and Paulino are the couple of actors who are forced to improvise a theatrical evening to celebrate the defeat of the “enemy” in the village of Belchite, a town in Zaragoza that the National Army has just “liberated”. However, what begins as an amusing homage to the victors ends as a tragic comedy.
Ay, Carmela! is a play where death and life are confused thanks to opportune breaks in time that take us from the past to the present and vice versa. The unanimous emptiness in which the plot takes place is at the same time a universal space in which loneliness, rage, fear and injustice go hand in hand with longing, complicity, love and memory. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
