Azar Teatro

SYNOPSIS by Juan Carlos Moretti.

Elderly Peggy and Betty are living in an old people’s home and they survive their old age creating fantasies about the past and the present. Since their lives have been very crazy and funny, their hallucinations are so as well. Their nurse July, who protects them with affection, goes into all their dreams with them.

When we chose this play, the feature we were more interested in was the tenderness with which the playwright, Ana Magnabosco, treats the feminine world through the special relationship among the three women, who are in a special moment in their lives. Humour humanises the situations they go through, making them funny and credible. On the stage we are presented with the main topic of old age – the struggle against oblivion –, always bathed and enriched by humour.

HAND PROGRAMME by Ana Magnabosco.

I don’t believe in didactic theatre, nor in the one that pretends to tell a message. The role of theatre is entertaining. However, unintentionally, the playwright ends up being the mirror of their time.

Time for delusions, this I’m living in. Time in which war and cruelty are part of the mediatic show of everyday life. Time where people live longer and better, with the paradox of not knowing what to do with so much life. Where family units are dispersed and the elderly fight on their own, like Quixotes against their own giant windmills.

Perhaps, as we all are going towards that battle, we could only be saved by creating today, now, good memories. Our windmills of tomorrow.

DOSSIER FOR PROGRAMMERS by Ana Magnabosco.

Several of my plays have been brewed among the heat of pans and pots because, besides writing, I earn my living preparing titbits and handcrafted sweets. While the hand moves the wooden spoon until the colour of caramel is obtained – alert the senses to the aroma and the bubbling– the head flies imagining characters and situations. “Woman Delusions” has been born like that, among pans and spices. It is quite like the lemon caramel. A bit of the bitter sourness of life and much of the sugar of dreams. All this in the humour sauce and, let’s stir!
As it is known, the just right touch of a great caramel is always a secret. In this case the touch of aroma has been given by the palate of its director, Juan Carlos Moretti. Needless to say that theatre directors are a bit of a cook. They read, “taste”, the play and, then, suggest: I find a bit of nostalgia here, I would add a grain of insanity there…

The good director always happens to be an accomplished gourmet who smells acutely, recreates, seasons. It is said foodstuffs have a lot to do with affection. Thus, it is not a coincidence that these “Woman Delusions” have fallen into Moretti’s hands, thanks to the steps by a beloved friend we both have in common, before knowing each other. And through the internet, the contact, the play, the sweet, were getting their just right state until reaching this you can taste today. And all I just can hope is you like it and enjoy it.