The empty temple wants to be an essential journey into oneself, to the emptying of the ego. As guides, Mexican Brenda Escobedo chose Saint John of the Cross, Central European Dominican Eckhart de Hochheim, Aragonese Quietist Miguel de Molinos, Andalusian Sufi-Muslim Ibn Arabí, and other heterodox mystical poets and philosophers. The beginning of the function is exemplary. But when Lluís Homar, his interpreter, puts his glasses on carefully, grabs a sheaf of sheets of paper containing the rest of the show’s lyrics and begins his dramatized reading, the magic that had ensued dissipates.
Conflict dinners are a genre in themselves. A group of people gather around a table, drink and laugh until a comment explodes everything. Carmen Marfà and Yago Alonso write four-handed comedies in which the genre’s alibi hides deep reflections on relationships, from the bond between siblings to parenthood and death. La pell fina is about the friendship of two couples who are friends who have met for dinner in the house of new parents. The conflict arises when the guests say that the hosts’ baby is ugly: it has big eyes and a face that is difficult to see.
Lluís Homar is an enormously talented actor who would shine even more if he had memorized the many texts by poets and mystical philosophers brought to him by Brenda Escobedo. Review by Javier Vallejo.
According to the comedy’s alibi, Carmen Marfà and Yago Alonso’s proposal for a conflicted dinner hides deep reflections on friendship. Criticism by Oriol Puig Taulé.
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