Roque Six

A comedy based on the novel of the same name by José López Rubio, adapted by Ignacio García May and directed by Juan Carlos Pérez de la Fuente. It follows a grey civil servant who is reborn again and again as he learns to take risks in life.

The show brings to the stage Roque Fernández, a dull civil servant who dies of an illness. Having failed to fulfil the mission entrusted to him from heaven, he returns to life incarnated in another man, and resists carrying it out with absurd deaths that force him to be reborn in different characters, up to six times.

López Rubio presents Roque as a fool, but uses that word in a sense different from the usual one. According to the text, God finds it easier to create a genius than a good fool, because to achieve the latter he would first have to fabricate a genius and twist his talent until it became a masterpiece of foolishness. The paradox serves to dismantle any disparaging view of the character.

More than a ridiculous character, Roque emerges as someone profoundly human, whose failing lies in having let life pass him by out of fear. The work maintains that making mistakes and committing small acts of madness is part of living, and that the real error lies in avoiding risk. The humour, tender and intelligent in tone, accompanies that journey of death and rebirth in the Sala Guirau of the Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa.