Roger Casamajor makes his debut as a theater director with Quatre dones i el sol, a contemporary classic by Jordi Pere Cerdà that is presented at the Akadèmia theatre. The play explores the dramas and passions of four women who live isolated in a valley in the Pyrenees.
In the isolated house, men are a present absence, which runs through the lives and thoughts of these four women: the mother, the daughter, the daughter-in-law and the sister-in-law, all of them with an incomplete love, marked by the war, by the misunderstandings and the isolation of living in a gloomy valley in the Pyrenees.
Annabel Castan, Irina Robles, Jèssica Casal and Núria Montes give life to these four women with remarkable solvency, controlled by the head of the house, who ties everyone around her short, and who seek the sun from the mountain ridges like someone looking for manna to survive.
For his directorial debut, Roger Casamajor has chosen a text from 1964 by Jordi Pere Cerdà, pseudonym of Antoni Cayrol, a writer from Northern Catalonia that is relatively unknown around here.
A poetic and at the same time moving text, which stirs the entrails and which the actor and now director of Alt Urgell claims. It is a good opportunity to discover this pearl of Catalan theater of the 20th century, at the Akadèmia theater in Barcelona until February 19, with a production by Escena Nacional d'Andorra.
Catalan version, here
