MAIDEN
In a country existing with no army for more than 50 years, Greta
has a dream that she holds inside as fiercely as her virginity: to
become a soldier-woman. In order to make it real she secretly
performs a desperate attempt: she wants to get accepted into the
body of the "Civil Guard" . Apparently, she is listened and
understood by the police chief, Ramon.But he is a rather corrupt
man. The young girl is just overwhelmed by an orgy of words that
make her believe in a true interest coming from the man, and she
trusts him. Nevertheless, Ramón will take her by force, as in a
ritual sacrifice. Are these roots of a "happy past that has
produced unhappy people" to bring Greta to the end, crushed by the
memory of a lost and sincere time. Only at the end the play will
reach the conclusion that gets a genious tone, that of a
revolution. The revolution of "the different", the last possibility
to resist, albeit unnecessarily, to the barbarism that is
approaching. So Greta ransoms her lost dream of becoming a soldier;
without complaining she greats herself and the things she has lost
along the way, although with a deep wound in her heart.
MAIDEN is a theatre production
by Teatro Popular Melico Salazar, Ministry of Culture &
Youth, FIA International Festival of Arts and with
the support of Italian Embassy in San Jose, CNT (Compañía
Nacional de Teatro) under the patronage IILA (Istituto Italo
Latino-Americano).
Dramaturgy and
Direction: Giuseppe L. Bonifati
Translator: Zingonia
Zingone
Actors: Alberto
Martinez Guinaldo (Spain) and Maria Laila Fernandez (Argentina)
Photo: Esteban
Chinchilla
Student's Jury Award - Puppet is A Human Too Festival 2012
(Warsaw, Poland)
Special Mention at International Theatre Award 2013 "Teresa
Pomodoro" (Milan, Italy)
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