Written and directed by Alberto San Juan Based on the novel Lectura fácil, by Cristina Morales
18 NOV 2022 – 8 JAN 2023
From Tuesday to Sunday at 8.00pm
Meeting with the artistic team: 29 NOV 2022
Accessible performances: 15 y 16 DEC 20222
In collaboration with the Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Fundación ONCE
Please arrive well in advance as the auditorium will be closed once the performance has begun.
To collect tickets, our box offices will be open from Monday to Sunday from 2.30pm to 8.30pm.
Alberto San Juan
Desirée Cascales Xalma, Laura Galán (covering Carlota Gaviño on December 28, 29 y 30 and January 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8), Carlota Gaviño, Pilar Gómez, Marcos Jareño, Anna Marchessi, Pablo Sánchez and Estefanía de los Santos
Beatriz San Juan
Raúl Baena
Fernando Egozcue
Synopsis
Lectura fácil [Easy reading] is the theatrical adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cristina Morales.
A bombshell designed to burst the concept of disability and claim the right of all living things to govern themselves. Four women placed under guardianship by the public welfare services. One of them escapes. A judge is after her. An intensely comic and tragic story where the body is the centre of everything, the place of oppression and the only place from which it is possible to emancipate itself.
Director’s Note
Opening holes Lectura fácil is a theatrical adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cristina Morales. A text that has received the National Narrative Award and is already in its umpteenth edition. An explosive device that has to maintain its flammable power when going from the book to the stage.
Lectura fácil is a comedy about four girls who share a flat. A story about four non-normal people, that is, who have great difficulties in adapting to the rules. Four people marked by different diagnoses of disability associated with mental disorders: Nati, Patri, Ángeles and Marga. A judge opens a process to decide if Marga’s forced sterilization should be carried out. Marga escapes and squats in an abandoned house. The police start their search.
Lectura fácil is, at least in this version, a story about the desire to live and the difficulties of carrying it out in a system designed against the living. A system that determines what life is, who can live it and how. Lectura fácil is a story about power and the need to laugh while we hit the wall trying to open a little hole through which we can peek at life. Although as Cristina Morales says that Mónica Valenciano says, to move the walls, exterior and interior, in addition to pushing or bumping, you can also try caressing. The strategies to widen the necessary living spaces are endless. Let’s keep exploring.
Alberto San Juan
Alberto San Juan
Desirée Cascales Xalma, Laura Galán (covering Carlota Gaviño on December 28, 29 y 30 and January 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8), Carlota Gaviño, Pilar Gómez, Marcos Jareño, Anna Marchessi, Pablo Sánchez and Estefanía de los Santos
Beatriz San Juan
Raúl Baena
Fernando Egozcue
Born in 1968. Studies theatre at the Cristina Rota school. A founding member of the Animalario company in 1995, he worked in this group until its dissolution in 2012. A founding member of the Teatro del Barrio cooperative in 2013, he was the artistic director of the project until 2018. Today he is still a cooperative partner and a regular collaborator of TdB.
Theatre:
Author: Animalario (Bonitas historias de entretenimiento sobre la humillación cotidiana de existir), 1995. Qué te importa que te ame (with Juan Cavestany and Andrés Lima), 1997. Tren de mercancías huyendo al Noroeste (with Juan Cavestany and Juan Mayorga), 1998. El fin de los sueños, 2000. Argelino (versión libre de Arlequino, servidor de dos amos, by Carlo Goldoni), 2008. Autorretrato de un joven capitalista español, 2012. El rey, 2014. Masacre, 2016. Mundo Obrero, 2019. Celebraré mi muerte (with Marcos Hourmann and Víctor Morilla).
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Director: Autorretrato, Ruz-Barcenas, El Rey, Masacre, Mundo Obrero, Celebraré mi muerte (with Víctor Morilla), Nueva York en un poeta (by Federico García Lorca).
Performer: All of the above –except Argelino, Ruz Barcenas and Celebraré mi muerte-, El obedecedor (by Juan Cavestany, directed by Amparo Valle), 1999. Perdida en los Apalaches (written and directed by José Sanchís Sinisterra), 2000. Pornografía barata (written and directed by Andrés Lima), 2000. Alejandro y Ana. Todo lo que usted no pudo ver del banquete de bodas de la hija del presidente (by Juan Mayorga and Juan Cavestany, directed by Andrés Lima), 2003. Hamelin (by Juan Mayorga, directed by Andrés Lima), 2005. Matar-Sade (by Peter Weiss, directed by Andrés Lima), 2006. Urtain (by Juan Cavestany, directed by Andrés Lima), 2010. Titus Andronicus (by William Shakespeare, directed by Andrés Lima), 2010. The Dumb Waiter (by Harold Pinter, directed by Andrés Lima), 2011. Betrayal (by Harold Pinter, directed by Will Keen), 2011. Hamlet (by William Shakespeare, directed by Will Keen), 2012.
Cinema:
Performer: Airbag (Juanma Bajo Ulloa), 1997. El otro lado de la cama (Emilio Martínez Lázaro), 2002. Días de fútbol (David Serrano), 2003. Horas de luz (Manolo Madji), 2004. Bajo las estrellas (Félix Viscarret), 2007. La isla interior (Félix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso), 2009). Una pistola en cada mano (Cesc Gay), 2012. Las furias (Miguel del Arco), 2016. Sentimental (Cesc Gay), 2020. El cuarto pasajero (Álex de la Iglesia), 2021. El test (Dani de la Orden), 2021.
Director and screenwriter: El rey, 2017.
Awards:
Goya for Best Leading Actor for Bajo las estrellas, 2007.
Silver biznaga for best actor for Bajo las estrellas, Málaga Film Festival, 2007 Espiga de oro for best actor for La isla interior, Valladolid International Film Festival, 2009 Goya for best supporting actor for Sentimental, 2021.
Max for Best Newcomer Show for El fin de los sueños, 2000 Max for Best Adapted Text for Argelino, 2008.
(Granada, 1985) has a degree in Law and Political Science and is a specialist in International Relations.
She is the author of the novels Los combatientes (Caballo de Troya, 2013; Anagrama, 2020), awarded the 2012 INJUVE Narrative Prize; Malas palabras (Lumen, 2015; reissued in Anagrama as Introducción a Teresa de Jesús, 2020); Terroristas modernos (Candaya, 2017) and Lectura fácil (Herralde Novel Award 2018 and National Narrative Award 2019).
Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. In 2017, she was awarded the Montserrat Roig Writing Scholarship, in 2015, the Han Nefkens Foundation Scholarship and in 2007, the Antonio Gala Foundation Scholarship for Young Creators. She is a member of the contemporary dance company Iniciativa Sexual Femenina.
