Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
THE MISUNDERSTANDING
By Albert Camus
Start date
End date
Venue
Naves Matadero
Hall 1
Institution
Following the performances made at the Centro Dramático Nacional, this piece by Camus is coming to Matadero. The cast features important figures in performance, such as Julieta Serrano, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, and Ernesto Arias.
Camus created the play The Misunderstanding based on his ideas of the absurd, within his first series of works. His philosophy of the absurd, framed around The Myth of Sisyphus, dramatized in Caligula and The Misunderstanding, and narrated in The Stranger, constituted a fundamental contribution for 20th century Existentialist philosophy.
The play The Misunderstanding is divided into three acts, in the manner of a classical tragedy, where the fate of the characters is in constant conflict with their desires. Jan is the prodigal son who has left behind his mother and Martha, his sister. Far from home, he meets Maria and marries her. After more than twenty years of separation, he decides to return home and offer his fortune to the two abandoned women. This is no easy matter, since they don't recognize him. Jan pretends to be a customer at their inn, which provides the beginning of a misunderstanding that will prove very costly to all those involved.
CAST (in alphabetical order): Jan Ernesto Arias Maria Lara Grube Martha Cayetana Guillén Cuervo The Old Man Juan Reguilón
The Mother Julieta Serrano
MUSICIANS:
Viol Alba Fresno Accordion Scott A. Singer
ARTISTIC TEAMS: Director/Sound and video design Eduardo Vasco Version Yolanda Pallín Set design Carolina González Costume design Lorenzo Caprile Lighting Miguel Ángel Camacho Composition Ángel Galán Assistant director José Luis Massó
A production of the Centro Dramático Nacional, Pentación and Mucha Calma Producciones, with the collaboration of the Institut Français, the Embassy of France and JCDecaux.
Camus created the play The Misunderstanding based on his ideas of the absurd, within his first series of works. His philosophy of the absurd, framed around The Myth of Sisyphus, dramatized in Caligula and The Misunderstanding, and narrated in The Stranger, constituted a fundamental contribution for 20th century Existentialist philosophy.
The play The Misunderstanding is divided into three acts, in the manner of a classical tragedy, where the fate of the characters is in constant conflict with their desires. Jan is the prodigal son who has left behind his mother and Martha, his sister. Far from home, he meets Maria and marries her. After more than twenty years of separation, he decides to return home and offer his fortune to the two abandoned women. This is no easy matter, since they don't recognize him. Jan pretends to be a customer at their inn, which provides the beginning of a misunderstanding that will prove very costly to all those involved.
CAST (in alphabetical order): Jan Ernesto Arias Maria Lara Grube Martha Cayetana Guillén Cuervo The Old Man Juan Reguilón
The Mother Julieta Serrano
MUSICIANS:
Viol Alba Fresno Accordion Scott A. Singer
ARTISTIC TEAMS: Director/Sound and video design Eduardo Vasco Version Yolanda Pallín Set design Carolina González Costume design Lorenzo Caprile Lighting Miguel Ángel Camacho Composition Ángel Galán Assistant director José Luis Massó
A production of the Centro Dramático Nacional, Pentación and Mucha Calma Producciones, with the collaboration of the Institut Français, the Embassy of France and JCDecaux.
Artistic team and specifications
- Director
- Eduardo Vasco