A puerta cerrada

Staging of Jean-Paul Sartre's play directed by Ainhoa Amestoy, presented at the Teatros del Canal with Isabel Ordaz, Pere Ponce, Olivia Molina and Jesús Asensi in the cast. It is a contemporary theatre show centred on guilt, freedom and the gaze of others.

Ainhoa Amestoy's staging, whose previous productions include Los cuernos de don Friolera and Lope y sus Doroteas, brings Sartre's text to the stage with a contemporary outlook. The cast comprises Isabel Ordaz, Pere Ponce, Olivia Molina and Jesús Asensi.

Three people who do not know one another, two women and a man, discover that they are trapped in a place they cannot leave. An official from the world of the dead keeps watch over them, and they come to understand that they are corpses obliged to face the consequences of their actions with no possibility of escape.

The play revolves around questions of personal responsibility, the need for the gaze of others in order to construct oneself as a person, the weight of freedom and what remains of someone after death. It is a text-driven piece of theatre that invites reflection on the human being's deepest fears.