That night, when he returns home, Javier gets a big surprise: Cata, as she tells him, has dreamed of Benjamin. She has dreamed the same thing, in an identical room, with marble walls. Coincidence or first indication of a secret bond that neither his wife nor his best friend have dared to confess? That is unimportant. What has weight is that, as the viewer already notices, for none of them life can continue the same.
The appearance of Ana, who in a dialogue with her husband pronounces the phrase that was quoted at the beginning, puts into action the vertigo of a drama that, as was said, transcends the mere conflict of marriage as an institution to rise to a higher instance, existential. His characters do not represent two couples in crisis, much less two “dysfunctional families”, that expression to which today’s playwrights have become so addicted; Contrary to Ingmar Bergman, “Marble” is not “scenes of conjugal life” but “scenes of conjugal death”. In the same way, unlike in Ibsen, the slamming of doors that Cata and Benjamín can slam are not the one that Nora slammed almost a century and a half ago in “A Doll’s House”, but the passage to another state as unpleasant as the previous one, although now without the support of the “comfort zone”. Freedom is not on the other side of the door: in the author’s worldview, the imaginary world, that of erotic dreams, is nothing more than a fantasy that is not opposed to the “grey” reality of everyday life but rather , when you try to put it into practice, it continues by other means and with other faces. Not only do God and marriage not exist; Neither is complete happiness.
Oscar Barney Finn’s stupendous staging is as stripped back as it is dynamic; his enormous craft conveys the drama with sustained, poignant nerve. His own version, and the translation by Cecilia Chiarandini, are two other props. The interpretations of Chiarandini herself (Ana), Diego Mariani (Benjamín), Pablo Mariuzzi (Javier) and Alexia Moyano (Cata) have a similar level of excellence.
“Mármol”, by M. Carr. Dir. and version: OB Finn. Trans.: C. Chiarandini. Int.: C. Chiarandini, D. Mariani, P. Mariuzzi, A. Moyano. (El Tinglado, Mario Bravo 948. Thursday at 8 pm).
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