Calle Esperanza

Many believe that Berlanga succeeded in raising public awareness of the death penalty more effectively with El Verdugo, a film steeped in corrosive humour in which a good…

Calle Esperanza is a comedy that uses humour as a way of drawing attention to a delicate social issue: the eviction of elderly people who are alone, ill and without resources, who end up on the street after losing the home in which they have lived for much of their lives. The production argues that these processes are carried out in a formal manner, with all the legal guarantees, by companies dedicated to the property business.

The text combines humour and emotion, and the staging relies on a cast of performers who carry the story on stage, alongside a technical and creative team that completes the production. The starting point is the critical comedy cinema with which Berlanga addressed the death penalty in El Verdugo, an example of how irony can awaken the audience's awareness of a serious question.

It is a show aimed at audiences who enjoy comedy with social content and who seek to reflect on housing through laughter and emotion, without giving up criticism.