The Argentine playwright and director Mariano Tenconi Blanco premiered last night at the Romea Theater in Barcelona “The Phantom Woman”, a work of his authorship that he brings to the stage with his company Teatro Futuro and with the Catalan group made up of women T de Teatre.
“The Phantom Woman is a delirious and excessive comedy, an immoral satire on morality, a review of the function of fiction, a return to childhood, to first love, to the moment when everything was possible, as in the theater “, highlighted the Futuro Company about the work that Tenconi Blanco has been working on in Spain in the last two months.
The work revolves around four teachers in the late 70s, who lead an intense and melancholic life, marked by care
of their parents and their children, by the disappointments in love and by the challenges that their students cause them, when the extraordinary breaks out: the appearance of a ghost woman.
The ghost appears when Nadia, one of the teachers who has just had a nervous breakdown and must prepare a play with the students, begins to rehearse in the town hall room.
The first appearance is followed by others, these are four ghosts, members of a company of actresses who have been shot and left wandering like lost souls who, in order to rest in peace, must premiere their latest work.
“The Phantom Woman”, performed by Catalan actresses Mamen Duch, Marta Pérez, Carme Pla and Àgata Roca, is told through letters, diaries, student exams, language classes and monologues, with music by Ian Shifres and the live musicians Joan Palet and Rafel Plana
The Argentine company Teatro Futuro was created in 2013 and is made up of Mariano Tenconi Blanco, the musician Ian Shifres and the producer Carolina Catro. In recent years they have carried out projects such as “The extraordinary life”, “Everything would make sense if death did not exist “, “The captives” and “The natural sciences”.
The T de Teatre company is Catalan and was created in 1991 by five young actresses who had recently graduated from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. His first show, “Little misogynistic stories” (1991), was awarded the Barcelona Critics’ Prize for the best theatrical revelation of the season.
In 1994 they released “Men!”, which ran more than 850 performances. “Criaturas” premiered in Buenos Aires in April 1998 and, months later, in Barcelona and Madrid, with great success among the public and critics. It was followed by the telecomedy “Jet lag”, created with filmmaker Cesc Gay, which consists of 81 episodes, broadcast over six seasons, and the shows “Esto no es vida!” (2003), “15” (2006 ) and “How can it be that I love you so much”, among others.
Source: Ambito
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