Colour milk
Company: Tanttaka theater.
When: 3 December.
Where: Teatro Arriaga (Bilbao).
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The force of counting experiences. Even the need and privilege of speaking in writing. Mary is part of a simple statement of this kind of story narrated in the first person. Mary lives in rural England in 1830. She's a homemade girl with milky hair. She lives with her sister, her parents and her grandfather and doesn't know the culture of work. Mary cannot read or write. Mary gets literate at a very high price. This traumatic process allows him to bear witness to what happened to him. Mary climbs to the stage to make a claim of the facts.
What happened to Mary? I've been immersed in the work driven by curiosity and passion for traveling through the character's insides. The Arriaga Theater in half, premiere in Basque, adaptation of a novel and six Basque actors on stage.
Class conflict, work culture, family strength, gender violence, power, faith... There are many of the potomy topics that go through the work, which can be understood even two centuries later. Mary is young, intelligent, imaginative, brave and rebellious. Misery and injustice mean that the life of the girl child is constantly at risk and confronts the reality that she lives.
Today, Aitziber Garmendia is Mary. Mary is humorist, alive and very smiling, although some are striving to eliminate her in this story.
The father sends Mary to work as a maid to the vicar's house. Mary hates life in the farmhouse, but soon discovers the lack of her daily crude. It accidentally submerges into a strange area. The vicar teaches you how to read and write, so it gives you the means to tell your story. It is also the centre and responsible for Mary’s terrible fate. Mary is pushed into the abyss by the strength of the vicar and her future is blackened.
Mary is clear from the beginning: “I’m going to tell you my story so I can put it on record. I tell you in writing because words are lost.” Counting is Mary's freedom and condemnation, destiny punished her body and released her stories today, here and now. He talks about why and writes in him what happened to him. In December 2023, at the Arriaga Theatre, what happened in the England of 1830 has a tremendous force in the words of Mary. The spectator echoes Mary's legacy until she gets into her skin.
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