19 JAN – 25 FEB 2024
From Tuesday to Sunday at 18:00 | Meeting with the artistic team: 01 FEB 2024
FIRST WEEK DISCOUNT(50% discount): Tuesday 23 and Thursday 25 JAN
Please arrive well in advance as the auditorium will be closed once the performance has begun.
To collect your tickets, our ticket offices will be open from Monday to Sunday from 14:30 to 20:30.
Denise Despeyroux
Denise Despeyroux, Carolina Lapausa, Pablo Messiez, María Morales and Cristóbal Suárez
Alessio Meloni
Guadalupe Valero
Pablo Despeyroux
Emilio Valenzuela and Maxi Huerta
Darío Duarte, of Uruguayan heritage, is a playwright who at 44 years of age is facing his first premiere in the Sala Grande of the María Guerrero Theatre. When he takes a course with another Uruguayan, Sergio Blanco, the latter recommends him to write about the most relevant event of his childhood. In 1983, the socialist government of Felipe González chartered a plane for almost two hundred children of Uruguayan exiles and political prisoners to travel to his country to spend New Year’s Eve with their families. Darío, just four years old at the time, was on that plane and visited his father in prison. The problem is that he can’t remember anything.
Darío now lives in Madrid with his two sisters. Delmira finds refuge in the Jewish kabbalah and, as a psychoanalyst, tries out a new method that integrates Lacanian principles with the tree of life. Dunia escapes from reality by designing her own video game, while going through life disguised as her favourite character: Yuna in “Final Fantasy X.” This dysfunctional life of a family traumatised by exile is not helping Dario. He seeks support in his best friend Dante. He is also a brilliant playwright but, overwhelmed by the frustration of his professional environment, has given up theatre for psychoneuroimmunology and is obsessed with recovering an ancestral way of life.
Sergio Blanco insists that Darío talk to Denise Despeyroux. She was on that same plane as a child and will be able to help him. Denise writes comedies with philosophical pretensions and crying. She is also out of fashion and her works do not open in large theatres. Darío Duarte is reluctant to talk to a playwright he considers to be more of an unfulfilled promise.
Denise Despeyroux
Denise Despeyroux, Carolina Lapausa, Pablo Messiez, María Morales and Cristóbal Suárez
Alessio Meloni
Guadalupe Valero
Pablo Despeyroux
Emilio Valenzuela and Maxi Huerta
Author, stage director, actress and teacher. She has premiered more than twenty plays in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Montevideo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and London, many of them privately produced and others produced and exhibited by public theatres such as the Centro Dramático Nacional, the Teatro Español and the Teatro Arriaga.
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Titles such as La Realidad, Carne viva, Los dramáticos orígenes de las galaxias espirales and Un tercer lugar have seen her recognised as one of the most unique and interesting voices in contemporary Spanish playwriting. Since 2014, she has been a regular candidate for Best Playwright at the Max Awards, and has been a finalist on several occasions. It was also a finalist, in 2018, for the Valle-Inclán Prize, the highest award in Spanish theatre. One of her last releases, La omisión del si bemol tres, received two nominations: Best Writing and Best Production Work.
Last season, Teatro Valle Inclán hosted Canción para volver a casa, written and directed for the company T de Teatre and premiered in Catalan at Sala Beckett (Grec Festival de Barcelona, 2019).
In addition to Catalan and Basque, her work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Polish and Japanese, and some of her works have premiered in English, French, Italian, German and Romanian.
With a degree in Philosophy and a diploma in Social Education, Denise Despeyroux has an interest in the pedagogy of theatre and has been training professional actors on a regular basis for more than twenty years. She has also given courses on stage creation and dramaturgy in numerous cities in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Valencia, Malaga, Huelva, Cuenca, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria) and abroad (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Mexico City, Miami, London and Rome).
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