El espacio interior

Victoria Mendizábal directs and adapts this dramatic work about an author who, at the end of his life, looks back over his memories and the decisions he never got round to taking. A look at the memory of those who grew up during the Civil War.

A writer of the Generation of '27, the youngest of the group, contemplates his existence on the threshold of death as if it were a film projected before his eyes. From that retrospection he reviews what he has lived and, above all, what he never dared to undertake, repeating again and again the formula of "I could have done this or that."

The play focuses on the generation that lived through the Civil War as children and that is gradually disappearing. Marked by scarcity, dictatorship and a silence imposed for decades, that experience constitutes a direct memory which the production proposes to preserve before it is lost. Between confessions and unanswered questions, the protagonist reconstructs the portrait of a country.

The staging unfolds with a dreamlike atmosphere that develops gradually and raises a reflection on everyday resistance and human finitude. It also draws a parallel between the visible wars of today and the inner conflicts of each person, between acting, however small the gesture, or remaining motionless.