Las Cunetas de la Gloria

A veteran actress who has seen it all, accompanied by her assistant in her marvellous Madrid garden, unravels her life for the publication of her memoirs under the tight watch of her insufferable…

The show opens with an actress who, surrounded by her assistant in a garden in Madrid, sets out to write her memoirs. Among memories of a chaotic childhood, the figure of a winemaker father and a grandmother marked by the loss of her husband, the story moves through a career full of ups and downs, from children's advertising to television soap operas, the theatre and awards.

The production sits in the register of comedy, with humour that coexists with harder moments and makes the tragedies that keep piling up easier to bear. The piece ironically traces the world of actors and the gap between the glamour and the miseries that surround it, across the last years of Spanish show business and Hollywood.

The cast is headed by Mirian Díaz Aroca, in a role written to measure for her. The play is by Santiago Escalante, also the author of Madre Amadísima and Paco España.