Some light in times of darkness
In April we change the time and the day will last. We walk to light in the same way as the protagonist of The truth about lightthe theatrical adaptation of the novel of ‘Auður ava Ólafsdóttir which arrives from April 2 to 20 at the Akademia Theater.
The truth about light It is the first novel translated into Catalan by this Icelandic author of an imprisoned name. Will come to the stage directed by Ferran Utzet and dramaturgy ofAnna Maria Ricart Codinato present the story of a midwife who works in Reykjavík. She lives at her beast’s house – the one, like her, a link of a long family lineage of midwives – who died four years earlier, and left him inherited an apartment where electricity now fails. It’s Christmas, Iceland the day is barely six hours. Thus, the protagonist will have to make hands and sleeves to find this lack of lack, at all levels.
“The whole metaphorical game around light and darkness is very direct, almost naive,” says Ferran Utzet. “It’s a close, affordable game, which develops very delicately.” The show’s team was able to talk to the author the last biennial of thought, “a very flat and simple woman” who encouraged them to do “whatever they wanted” with the adaptation.
The protagonist midwife will be interpreted by Maria Casellasand the beast, its predecessor in the family role, will be Rose renowned. Andrea Portella and Roger Julià They embody the shore of characters around them: a meteorologist who announces a great storm, an Australian tourist fascinated by the Aurora Borealis, a friend who seeks old furniture and an electrician with a hearted heart after becoming a father.
A luminous work in a time of social, political and environmental crisis, in which human relations are becoming more and more mediated and the future seems uncertain. A reminder of the importance of living in contact with what is essential, with what connects the generations, and with the simplicity of “born, dying and, in between, a few storms.”
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