'Mathausen: the voice of my grandfather' arrives at the Pérez Galdós Theater as a serene testimony of horror

'Mathausen: the voice of my grandfather' arrives at the Pérez Galdós Theater as a serene testimony of horror



The Pérez Galdós Theater premieres the play Mathausen, the voice of my grandfather'next March 5 at 7:00 p.m. Produced by Trajín Teatro and directed by Pilar G. Almansa, the play is based on the testimony of Manuel Díaz Barraco about his days in the Nazi concentration camp told by his own granddaughter, the actress Inma González. This function is part of the Platea program of the Inaem, the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music, dependent on the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

The work is a song to life, to the strength of the human being, to solidarity and humor as a strategy, literally, of survival. The text conveys the real experiences of the protagonist from the memories recorded directly by himself before he died, which are brought to life on stage by his own granddaughter. Mathausen, the voice of my grandfather It is conceived so that the horrors of our contemporary history and the heroism of a generation that still overwhelms us are known and assimilated at the same time.

The show is unipersonal so Inma González uses humor, oral narration, clowning, storytelling and multi-character monologues on stage to tell us the story. The word is accompanied by objects and symbols on which the interpreter leans to evoke images that can describe the situation that her grandfather and the other prisoners of the Mathausen concentration camp had to live through, where thousands of Spaniards were sentenced to work in the quarries to exhaustion. "The first impression I had, as I arrived at night, does not count. And since when it dawned it was Sunday, a day of rest, I didn't really know what that was until Monday morning."narrates Inma González with the same naive astonishment that Manuel must have felt then, having just turned 18.

Bustle Theater was born in 2018, precisely, to premiere this work, a personal project due to Inma González's need to give shape to the story of her grandfather. After 20 years in the profession, the company has become a commitment to the future with which to continue research into theatrical events. The piece was a candidate in the Max 2019 Awards for Best Breakthrough Show and Best Breakthrough Drama. In 2020, he repeated his nomination for Best Newcomer Show. Recommended by the Red de Teatros and SAREA, it has won the award for Best Hall Show at the Castilla y León Theater Fair in Ciudad Rodrigo (2019) and the award for Best Text and Show at the TOC Festival (Teatro de Obras Contemporáneas ) of El Puig in 2019.

The journey of Manuel Diaz

Under cover of fog, Manuel Díaz swam the three or four kilometers that separate the Line of Conception from the Rock of Gibraltar, where the British police detained him on August 4, 1937. So that the consul would not return him to territory conquered by the insurgent military, he lied and said that he had just turned 19. His journey had only just begun and he found himself fighting against the Francoist side in Tortosa, Almuniente, Huesca and Zaragoza. Enlisted later in the French army, he was taken prisoner while his battalion tried to contain the attack of the Wehrmacht during the Blitzkrieg and became a "postchaca", a slave labor unit created by the SS to replace the Austrian workers of the quarry of Nazi industrialist Anton Poschacher.

Tickets are already on sale and can be purchased at the box office of the Pérez Galdós Theater, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday; as well as on the websites of the Alfredo Kraus Theater and Auditorium.



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