“Verónica’s room” on stage

The actress will be accompanied by Fabio Aste, Fernanda Provenzano and Adrián Lazare, under the direction of Virginia Magnago.

The play was a hit on Broadway in the early 1970s and was later performed in London, but Ira Levin always refused to make it into a movie because he said that the magic of “Veronica’s Room” had to be in person at a theater hall

The action takes place in the city of Boston where a 20-year-old girl is approached while having dinner with her boyfriend in a restaurant, invited by a charming old couple who are impressed by the girl’s resemblance to Veronica, their long-deceased daughter. weather.

The couple accompanies the old people to their mansion to observe Verónica’s portrait and verify the resemblance, and the theatrical nightmare begins there.

Levin, who died in 2007, is the author of some novels that became big movie hits. The most famous of these was “Rosemary’s Baby”, made into a film by Roman Polanski, with Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes (1968), where he also dealt with the link between two marriages, one older and one younger, and the third in discord was the son of the devil.

He was also the author of “The Possessed of Stratford”, twice made into a movie (in one case with Katharine Ross, in 1973, and in 2004 and in 2004 with Nicole Kidman), and “The Children of Brazil” (1978), with Laurence Olivier.