the ivy of emotion

There are features that hit the viewer; others shake it, remove it, make it uncomfortable. And others, like “El sonido oculto,” tangle like ivy until they excite him. The work of Adam Rapp (Chicago, USA, 1968) tells the story of a 50-year-old university professor of creative literature who leads a lonely life with the only company of books and one day visits one of her students to ask her for help because he is writing a novel. A special relationship develops between the two and the life of the teacher seems to be energized.

The lyrics are sweet, painful, beautiful, devastating, tortuous, funny, sour, poetic, disturbing, magnetic, albeit with a somewhat smug ending… The author almost sets it as a interrupted monologue; It is the protagonist herself who tells the story, the backbone of which is loneliness. A loneliness that the teacher is unaware of until something shakes her and makes her aware of her situation.

Juan Carlos Rubio -who made the show “Spanish” and placed the plot at the University of Salamanca – has created a minimalist yet elegant show that illuminates the word and interpretation, enveloping the characters in a symbolically run-down office-library-classroom. In it, Toni Acosta confronts his character, who seems to have been drawn with a single color but with an infinite palette of shades; he shades it, colors it, sketches it in outstanding and moving performance. For his part, Omar Ayuso always gives the right answer.