LAS PEQUEÑAS MUDANZAS

dramaturgia y dirección de Vanessa Espín

REPRESENTATIONS

TEATRO DE LA COMEDIA

SALA TIRSO DE MOLINA
From 13 to 30 March 2025
Meeting with the public: Wednesday 26 March 2025

SYNOPSIS

Valeria is a woman who suddenly loses everything: love, home and work, so she returns to her mother's house at the age of almost fifty with the fear and shame of being a loser. She can't get back on her feet and thinks she is going crazy like her aunt Paca or that she is going to end up alone and with her honour broken like her mother. Valeria sets out to find that which is broken and which has remained stagnant. She will dive into the dark forest of her past and search for the father she knew little and badly, hoping to fix what is still broken, but it will be too late. The decision will be hers. Who does she want to be? Whose life does she depend on?

ARTISTIC/TECHNICAL TEAM

Cast
Cristina Blanco, Marta Calvó, Julia Rubio

Direction and dramaturgy: Vanessa Espín
Scenic art: Elisa Sanz
Lighting: Pedro Yagüe
Musical composition and sound space: Antonio de Cos
Movement: Amaya Galeote
Assistant director: Aurora Parrilla
Production Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico y Elena Artes Escénicas

Vanessa Espín (Madrid, 1973) has a degree in Stage Direction with a specialisation in Dramaturgy from the RESAD, and also studied Dramatic Art at the Cuarta pared school. Her work as an author is linked to the creation of an integral and harmonious vision of the human being, both on a social and personal level, and her work as an actress branches out through directing, teaching and writing. She has been teaching acting and dramaturgy at Juan Codina's studio for actors since 2015.

He is in the programme of the 24/25 season of the Teatro Clásico with Las pequeñas mudanzas. A play that he writes and directs. He has written 400 días sin luz as part of the Centro Dramático Nacional's 2022 programme, winner of the MET 2022 award for best playwriting and best show. He has also written Los suspendidos with the New Playwriting 2021 grant, awarded by the Victoria Eugenia Theatre in San Sebastian, the Teatro Principal Antzokia in Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao. He has written and directed Un animal en mi almohada, programmed at the 40th Autumn Festival and at the Teatro Fernán Gómez. First prize in the XXIII Certamen Nacional de Teatro para directoraas de Escena Ciudad de Torrejón organised by the ADE. Finalist in the MET theatre awards. This play has the help of the CAM for the creation of theatrical texts 2019 for writing. She has directed Casa Matriz by Diana Raznovich programmed at the Teatro Español.
También ha escrito las obras de teatro: La mujer de tejero, Nada es normal, La memoria azul, Una bolsa de hielo en un corazón vacío.

Words by the author and director

I admire the women of the golden century. I admire their bravery, I always wanted to go and tell the tale to all the cretins who took my honour. The biggest of them all, that was my father. He moved out before I was born and the ground has been shifting in my wake. My father left my mother without honour and that's where it all comes from. The doubt, the fear, the shame, and the pain. In 1973 a woman's honour still existed. If my mother had been Doña Juana, would she have disguised herself as a man? I want to tell the story of a woman who grew up without a father. I want to talk about the emotional changes that turn into abandonment and lead us to the first abandonment. The one that is nuclear and that marked us forever. I want to talk about the abandonments in my family. About family moves. I want to talk about living, loving, the fear of living. About hate and revenge. I want to talk about break-ups. I want to talk about goodbye and the door that opens after goodbye.