From the archive · Events · 22 March 2012

Culture: Desperate Housewives to Spanish

After nearly a year touring the main Spanish stages, “The Great Depression” came to theater artery Paral.lel to stay at least two months. A play written and directed by Felix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso. Authors of such films as “pretty sorry but Lucas wanted me,” “The hue and cry,” “Chill Out”, “Years naked” or “Inner Island” as well as creating and directing several television series. Although his career has developed in many genres, comedy is where most have been lavished.

Known for being part of exclusive group of “girls Almodóvar”, Bibiana Fernandez and Loles Leon are the leading ladies. Both represent a long history of cinema and theater in which their careers have followed parallel television where amply demonstrated their capacity media, qualities of show-woman, her talent for comedy, freshness and gift for communication. This is a true theatrical event for the first time, we can enjoy together on stage in a unique encounter that takes also a time of professional and personal maturity becomes one of the main attractions of the function . A funny tour de force in which these two actresses exploit their best qualities to make you laugh, but also to move with the raw truth and with a clever irony.

The work focuses on Manuela’s meeting, Loles Leon and Marta, Bibiana Fernandez. Two women in their fifties, after living a long and close friendship, life and perhaps know too much, ended up apart. Their personalities are antagonists: Manuela was a woman who spent his youth studying and cement their independence, but her love life has been a disaster, and indeed is one. While Martha, attractive and less intellectual capacity, but with great talent vital, has always been known to find men to be kept and enjoyed a life better off. Two eternal friend-enemy that just when Martha, after his fifth marriage attempts suicide, Manuela always on the ball, goes to rescue his old friend.

Together and after years of separation, review their lives, their failures and loneliness, displaying, biting and funny dialogues, his fears, his vital wisdom and contradictions: what differentiates abysmally, but paradoxically has led to similar circumstances. During the function, through various turning points, their personalities will be altering the roles of victim and executioner. Humor, pure life and the occasional musical number that the public will not stop clapping from the first scene as if it were the end of the show.

 
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