The longevity of Griselda Gambaro It serves the cause of the transcendence of his work, the variety in his literary development and his figure as a chronicler. Only that a writer and playwright like her is due to another type of account of the events far beyond the official chronicles. A narrator like her ends up telling the single truth, namely, the intra-stories with their folds, their paradoxes and their conflicts.
Nothing better than the theater so that the relevance of the characters become more relevant. Because it is not the same to listen to the protagonist of a plot from the inner voice of each one than to attend to a soliloquy reverberating from the top of the tables, declaiming the tragedy of the moment, making it pain or pleasure accompanied with gestures and movement .
From Shakespeare but also Valle-Inclan, every play reaches us and invades, assaults our consciousness and is capable of making the message come more alive. The same goes for a Griselda Gambaro who seems filled with that gift to visualize her works as they are written to make them rabidly authentic.
Top 3 recommended books by Griselda Gambaro
The sea that brought us
The past may be on one side of the sea, on the shore where life resonated with other waves. While the present ends up unraveling in the mist of a future that ends up dragging tumultuous. Because everything is irreconcilable when one decides to leave right after trying to find some kind of roots that clings to life ...
The newly married Agostino leaves his young wife, Adele, on the island of Elba to seek a better fortune beyond the sea. The distance, and with it the oblivion, push him to start a family in Buenos Aires, molded in the harsh conditions offered by strenuous and poorly paid work, strangeness and nostalgia. But suddenly the past appears in the people of Adele's brothers, who return Agostino to Italy and force him to fulfill his commitment.
From that life split in two, from those comings and goings across the sea, from those trips on the poorest wings of ships, the story that this deep, delicate and true novel tells is born. A family story, of feelings as intense as they are hidden, of daily acts that determine the lives and destinies of vulnerable and hardened beings, a mirror of so many of us.
Say yes. The bad blood
"Say yes" and "La malasangre" premiered during the last dictatorship; the first in 1981 within the Open Theater cycle, which sought to break the silence imposed by the military, and the second in August 1982, when the Falklands War had just ended. Both pieces were very successful with audiences and critics, and since then they have been frequently performed on national and international stages.
In "Say Yes" we find a frequent pattern in some of the author's works: an innocent man arrives at an apparently harmless place, a hairdresser. An absolutely routine act serves to speak of repression and violence, of submission and servility, of victimization and its result. Behind the simple story of "La malasangre" (a loving couple eloped in the face of the young woman's father's opposition to the love relationship) hides a denunciation of the arbitrary exercise of power, both in the private space of the family and in the socio-political of the State.
The gift and Dear Ibsen, I am Nora
Margara is a woman with the gift of prophecy. Like Cassandra, they don't believe her either, although what she predicts is the hope of the world. In order to save us -he opens-, it is only necessary for humanity to hear and understand that goodness brings profit.
Nora, the character created by Henrik Ibsen in Dollhouse, decides to confront her own creator and discuss his sayings and actions with him. In doing so, she becomes the author of her identity, while turning the playwright into a character.
Two women, two voices that rise up and grow like a storm to show the faces of violence and try to rebel against oppression and mandates. Griselda Gambaro once again dazzles with two poetic, incisive, original theatrical works, in which with extreme lucidity she investigates the folds of power and domination.
