El solitario

Adaptation directed by Aitana Sar of a dramatic poem by Concha Méndez, written during the Spanish Civil War and the author's exile, which reflects on birth, love and solitude through symbolic forces.

El solitario brings to the stage a dramatic poem by Concha Méndez, one of the voices of the Generación del 27, written during the Spanish Civil War and the author's years of exile. The production is directed by Aitana Sar, who works with a text that is hard to categorise: what could have been a philosophical treatise becomes a poetic game of abstraction and personal resonances.

On stage there are no characters in the conventional sense, but symbolic forces: Time, Light, a Spider, a Lighthouse Keeper, Solitude or Blue. The story begins with the love between the Bell and Time, continues with the birth of their son, Love, and leads to his transformation into El Solitario. Through this journey, the play raises the fragility of what we love and the grief for what does not endure.

Solitude appears here as a contradictory experience: the inability to recognise oneself alongside another and, at the same time, the pain of being alone. The Teatro Español focuses its programming above all on contemporary theatre, and this proposal falls within that line of creation.