Historia de una escalera

Antonio Buero Vallejo returns to the Teatro Español with his drama about the neighbours of a tenement building, in a staging directed by Helena Pimenta and led by Gloria Muñoz.

Buero Vallejo's play places the centre of the action on a tenement staircase, which functions as the true axis of the drama. Through it pass the lives of ordinary people trying to survive in a hostile environment, and their small everyday events unfold across three moments in the first half of the twentieth century.

The structure is made up of brief, interwoven stories. The characters, from different families and generations, cross paths in their daily comings and goings through the building and reveal their hopes, frustrations and sorrows in a time of scarcity. It is a realist and social kind of theatre that invites audiences to recognise, in the coexistence of those neighbours, features of today's society.

The direction is by Helena Pimenta, with a cast led by Gloria Muñoz. The artistic team is completed by José Tomé and Marcos Carazo on set design, Gabriela Salaverri on costumes, José Manuel Guerra on lighting and Nuria Castejón on movement. It is a production of the Teatro Español itself, the venue where the play premiered in its day.