Says Toni Casares, director of the Beckett room, that they have managed to get José Sanchis Sinisterra to accept the word "recognition", because he does not want to hear about homage, that he is not dying. The fact is that the emblematic room that the Valencian playwright founded in 1989 has decided to recognize him for his enormous task as a "playwright, educator and activist".
If in 1996 Sanchis Sinisterra and his team organized Tardor Pinter, a playwright that he discovered to the public here, now he is leaving Tardor Sanchis, which will program shows, readings and activities around his work and "the influence on Catalan theater and contemporary Spanish", says Casares. Works that will be seen in Barcelona at the Beckett, but also at the Tantarantana, Goya, Versus Glòries and La Gleva; in Madrid, in the Teatro de la Abadía; in Valencia, in the Rialto; and in Alicante, in the Arniches, thanks to the collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Culture.
In an interesting two-hour conversation, the founder and the current director of Beckett reviewed the former's professional life, while presenting the shows and activities of this Tardor Sanchis. There will be no shortage of the great works of the playwright, as well as other related ones, a few days of study at the Institut del Teatre and the reading of his latest work: Running after a wounded deer, although he confesses that he is working on three others.
This recognition will begin with "a gift" that the organizers want to give you. The person in charge will be Pablo Rosal, "an author who reminds us of him," says Casares, and who will be presented by Castroponce. Theory and praxis for a 21st century vanguard. Rosal already dazzled the Beckett audience this winter with the unclassifiable Murder of a Photographer.
Carles Alfaro will direct El lector por horas, which Sanchis says is "a plagiarism of Pinter". On stage, Pep Cruz, Pere Ponce and Mar Ulldemolins. Yolanda Porras is in charge of directing ¡Ay, Carmela!, with Paula Iwasaki and Guillermo Serrano, the work that provided good income to Sanchis, thanks to those who were able to open the first Beckett theater, in the neighborhood of Gràcia.
Deserts Grow at Night will be directed by David Lorente and Clara Sanchis, the author's daughter, who will also interpret her, with Concha Delgado and José Luis Patiño. Sanchis' first success, Ñaque o de loice y actores, will be directed by himself with Daniela De Vecchi, with the actors Javier Godino and Joan Martínez Vidal. And with Eva Redondo he will direct Vitalicios, with Magdalena Broto, Marta de Frutos and Santiago Nogués.
There will be dramatized readings of other works by Sanchis Sinisterra, or adaptations such as Bartleby's, l'escrivent, by Melville. Everything to recognize the influence of this giant of the theater, now that he has turned 83 years old.
Catalan version, here
