The Teatro del Común company, under the direction of Celia León, presents this little-known text offering a bird's-eye view of what remains after a war.

This parody of Don Juan Tenorio It introduces Juanito Ventolera, a repatriated soldier, staying at the home of the pharmacist Socrates Galindo, whose daughter, after dishonoring the family, works as a prostitute in a brothel.

It so happens that when speaking of war, the narrator, who was once a witness, gives the events a purely accidental chronological link, born of the human and geometric limitation that prevents the living from being in several places at once. The narrator adjusts the war and its events to the measure of his journey: the battles begin when his eyes come to behold them. The terrible rumble of war fades when he moves away from the tragic landscapes, and returns when he approaches them. All the narratives are limited by the narrator's geometric position.

But he who could be in several places at once would have a vision, an emotion, and a conception of war entirely different from that of the wretched witness, subject to the laws of the corporeal and mortal realm. In both cases, there would be the same difference as between the vision of the soldier fighting deep in the trench and that of the general observing the unfolding events of the battle hunched over a map.

This story tells of that moment when soldiers return to their villages, and the blind walk the paths with their guides, and those without legs beg at church doors, and the one-armed return from place to place with the cheerful service of others; for when, in the depths of homes, the dead are named and prayers are offered for them, each mouth has a different story, and there are hundreds of thousands of stories, expressions of as many visions, which in the end must be summarized in one vision, the essence of them all. Then the soldier's meager gaze disappears, giving way to the collective vision, the vision of the entire people who were in the war, and who saw all the events at once from every corner of the land.

This story is intended to be narrated as a transcendence of pain and laughter, as the conversations of the dead should be, when telling stories of the living?
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

Schedule: 20:00 PM [Thursday and Sunday 19:00 PM]

[entrance 15? · members 12?]

CAST
Stage manager 1: Felipe Higuera
Stage manager 2: Maite Colodrón
Stage Manager 3: Maguy Magán
The witch: Mª Jesús Luque
The daifa: Irene Rodríguez
The mother: Ana Torres
Juanito Ventolera: Francis Sánchez
The Gallop: Manuel Vallano
The pharmacist: Paco Gómez
Doña Terita: Ana V. Souto
Soldier 1: Manuel Vallano
Soldier 2: Pablo Ballesteros
Dove 1: Cristina Fermosel
Paloma 2: Pilar Jiménez
The sacristan: Candi Hernández
The rapper: Teresa Navarro

Teatro del Común Production:
Soledad Hernández // Hitos Hurtado // Pablo Rogero

Makeup and characterization: Maguy Magán
Lighting design: Marino Zabaleta
Sound design: Carlos García Cuéllar
Set design and costumes: Mapy Hernández
Assistant Director: Vanesa Espín
Directed by: Celia León