El Anzuelo de Indias

A free version by Luis O'Malley of El anzuelo de Fenisa by Lope de Vega, directed by Mario Vega, which moves the comedy of intrigue to Cartagena de Indias in 1811.

The production, directed by the Canary Islands stage director Mario Vega, takes Lope de Vega's comedy as its starting point and reinterprets it from a political perspective. The plot is set in a tense Cartagena de Indias, on the verge of rising against the Crown, where Celia arrives fleeing a painful past while Batista, an officer determined to curb any uprising, pursues her.

To protect herself, the heroine allies herself with Fenisa, a woman skilled in wit, seduction and deception, who puts these weapons at the service of the fight for independence. When Batista lands in the city, Celia infiltrates his circle under a false identity, and the play unfolds amid rumours, conspiracies, passions and confrontations.

This version keeps the misunderstandings and identity games of the original, but shifts the motive for cunning from personal interest to the ideological sphere and social justice. Thus, the complicity between women is presented as a form of resistance against power.