Viaje a la Luna
Teatre Lliure. IT Teatre. Institut del Teatre
2021
Oklahoma. 1989. Someone finds a manuscript on a nightstand. This is Viaje a la Luna, an unpublished film script by Lorca —the only one written by the Granada-born poet and playwright— that had remained hidden for 60 years. The text was owned by the widow of Emilio Amero, a Mexican surrealist painter and director who met Lorca in 1929 in New York. Lorca wrote 71 sequences by hand in a lined notebook and gave the text to Amero. "Do what you want with this," he seems to have told her. Amero never made it to the film.
Trip to the Moon is a succession of seemingly unconnected surreal scenes, but which actually make up a dense network of symbols that fully connect with Lorca's universe: women in mourning, harlequins, nocturnal frenzy, a crying child, men in dark alleys, vomit, violence... Written during his stay in New York, it seems that Lorca poured into this text certain shocking symbols and images that he distilled from his New York imaginary, although at the same time he could not or did not want to escape the rich symbology related with his childhood, his childhood frustrations, his pain. When reading the text, one has the sensation of entering a world affected by speed, technique and aggressiveness, where the notions of travel —through space and time—, displacement and dislocation, take on great importance. also inside.
In this dreamlike framework, sexual images are combined with violent images of mistreated people and animals and disturbing, dangerous situations, but flowers and "cheesy" movie kisses also appear. We will never know how or why Lorca wrote this film script. In some sequences the text has the appearance of automatic writing or first draft. In any case, it is not a film script to use. Although some technical indications appear, it is essentially a poetic text.
At times dream, at times nightmare, Trip to the Moon was sleeping for many decades waiting to be awakened.
Text
Federico García Lorca
Dramaturgy and direction
Marta Pazos
Cast
Laia Alberch, Marc Domingo, Rut Girona, Cristina Martínez, Clara Mingueza, Mariona Rodríguez, Gal·la Sabaté y Paula Sunyer
Scenography and lighting
Cube.bz
Original music
Hugo Torres
Costume
Alejandra Lorenzo
Choreography
Amaranta Velarde
Dramaturgical support
Montse Triola
Assistant directors
Sadurní Vergés y Àlex Pereira
IT Theater Project Coordination
Joan Cusó y Ramon Simó
Production
Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona
Coproduction
Teatre Lliure y Voadora
