The Matilde Salvador room at the Cultural Centre hosts today Thursday, 28 February, the play 'The Pelican' by August Strindberg, played by Escena Cero and directed by Tono Berti. The play is part of the Aula de Teatre programming, part of the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture, Equality
and Communication of the University of Valencia, which includes thirty plays until next May.
All performances take place at 19:30 in the Sala Matilde Salvador at La Nau and tickets, free with invitation, can be collected two hours before the start of the play at the Cultural Centre of La Nau of the University of Valencia.
In this play, Strindberg shows the last days of a Catholic bourgeois family in the turbulent beginning of the last century. A family in which coldness prevails and hunger is imposed by a mother who eats everything. A family that is a living picture of the society in which it lives. 'The Pelican' is, therefore, a metaphor of the collapse of capitalism which Strindberg himself so much desired as a socialist supporter.
The family is shown as the capitalist representation of political and economic order, and its disintegration can refer to the necessary loss of existing political order to be replaced by socialism. A play in which Strindberg conceals in the plot of his Pelican
not only moral or ethical ideas but a political analysis of their innermost desires.
'The Pelican' was released in the Intima Teatern Stockholm in 1907 in an attempt for Strindberg to find new ways in his dramaturgy. The work is ascribed to the so-called chamber theater that materialized in the last dramatic stage of this great author. In Escena Cero's proposal, 'The Pelican' is developed in an underdeveloped Mediterranean environment in the early 20th century. It is in this environment, where family drama takes on mythic dimensions due to the cult to the mother that is professed in these regions.
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Last update: 28 de february de 2013 08:19.
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