Jose Fernández will premiere “Max’s Concave Dream” on stage at the Carthima Theater.

El actor Jose Fernandez estrenará la obra «El Sueño Cóncavo de Max» en el teatro Carthima (Cártama) el próximo 11 de Febrero con la compañía Teatro Káustyko.

Synopsis:

Max, a blind writer plagued by disturbing dreams, rents a house with open doors, living there with Helena, his wife—his emotional and physical support, his lifeblood. They are visited by Pepe, a paraplegic, a close friend of both of them, and a habitual drinker. Together, they dream of the imminent arrival of Claudinita, the couple’s daughter and Pepe’s best friend. They read her letters and mourn her absence. They are visited by Donato, an unscrupulous executive who seeks to profit from the sale of the house and the kidnapping of Claudinita. The poetic, intimate, and complex atmosphere in which the first three characters move is immediately shattered by the unwelcome presence of a morally ruthless individual to whom they are unwilling to make any concessions.

ABOUT THE PLAY

“Max’s Concave Dream” begins with a clear nod to Valle-Inclán and, specifically, to “Luces de Bohemia.” Max and Helena play with this reference and pay homage to the great master both repeatedly and at specific moments—sometimes reciting brief passages from the original work, other times using words and aphorisms clearly recognizable as characteristic of Max Estrella or Don Latino. Examples include the expressions: “don’t get too full of yourself,” “it’s his turn to lead,” or “eureka.” The intention was to establish a certain associative parallel between the Max of this play and Valle’s Max. Both are poets, both are blind, and both have a daughter named Claudinita. Starting from this explicit and resounding tribute to Ramón, we delve into a distorted and metaphorical universe—singular, at times grotesque, dreamlike, and poetic—deliberately anchored in an undefined era so as to further explore the distortion of the formal and discursive elements that underpin the intricate relationship between Max, Helena, and Pepe. All three live in hope of Claudinita’s hypothetical arrival. All three suffer from her absence. This almost endogamous connection will be disrupted by the presence of Donato, an unscrupulous young man who will try to take advantage of the apparent weakness of these beings “unadapted” to the times, of these people with disabilities (including Helena, who exhibits some neurotic behaviors), over whom he feels clearly superior. That is why he dares to say at one point: “A blind man, a paralytic, and a fairy godmother. What a bunch of heroes.” The distortion of reality played with in this production may lead the audience to ask the following question: Is Donato, perhaps, the only one with a disability?

Dirigida por Eduardo Duro y protagonizada por Antonio Caparrós, Mari Carmen Fernández, Andrés Gálvez, y Jose Fernández.

Available tickets:

https://entradium.com/es/events/el-sueno-concavo-de-max

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