PESSOA - Since I’ve Been Me

Robert Wilson's production pays tribute to the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, starring the actress and singer María de Medeiros. It is the Spanish premiere of a contemporary theatre piece on the plurality of the self.

This production takes the work of Fernando Pessoa as its starting point to reflect on the plurality of the self. Directed by Robert Wilson, who died recently, the piece is presented as a tribute to the Portuguese writer and makes its Spanish premiere as part of the Festival de Otoño at the Teatros del Canal.

María de Medeiros stars in the show, which is organised into scenic tableaux. Texts by Pessoa and three of his heteronyms, Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro and Ricardo Reis, appear at times fragmented, repeated or diluted within a visual and sound device, so that the word loses its usual linearity.

The show is performed in French, Italian, Portuguese and English, with Spanish surtitles. The tone swings between irony and melancholy, and Wilson's stage language rests on the architecture of light, frontal compositions and slow, precise movement. Wilson, a leading figure in international theatre, builds here a poetics open to the ambiguous and to what remains unresolved.