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Piarres Larzabal

El Auspoa, 1962

The theater is completely forgotten. May I just come here, but see who goes to the theater today, and see who takes the courage to read the text. On the contrary, we have the fast-paced theater writers, Piarres Larzabal, who this year was born the century. Ibon Sarasola: “Priest. The best author of this period. A hundred authors.” Confirmed by Larzabal: “I think I have written over a hundred and twenty works, large and small, long and short.” The first thing, Irri and Negar, was to enter the house from the market of a drunken man, who published in the journal Diseased Herria. 1934. Other Piarres, in Xarrito: “In the beginning they have nothing but the goal of making them laugh. Soon, between laughter and tears, he intends to make the viewer reflect. They are comedies that stir up social problems.” For Xarriton, the most serious in Larzabal: Orreaga, Paper mende, Sarako lorea, Urriki latza 1964, then Lana eri, Suedako neskatxa 1965, Ibañeta and perhaps the best, Matalas 1968 – Sarasola confirms the last: “His most interesting work”–. In short, what Larzabal himself says in volume 6 of the complete works: “I ask the Basques to teach us how they are and what they can do with what they are. May the theater accompany life, traveling with life. Let us fill the spectators not only with a beautiful past, but with ardent ends for everything that needs to be done.”

And I know they're from the apartment first, but what do you want me to say to you? More than the life and miracles of Matalas, unlike the patriotism of Ibañeta, I enjoyed much more with this Herriko Bozak on the return of the municipal elections. The characters, on the one hand the reds who drink from red wine on the voting days, and the whites who drink from white on the other. Everyone is looking for votes in their favour. More Paco drunk, of course: “The time has come to vote, so no king is more honored than I am”; “How sweet is it to see this, become a beggar of some great lords!” And Kattalin, the patron, who knows? “I want politics to be made, but political salsa… For the big ones, it’s politics.” After drinking Paco from red and white, the sentence: “Everyone can explode for me.” To put a rod in, I've had some doubt with a character, because it's a mockery. They mock him during a scene. “For dogs to be hooked with the bed sheet and children to be stoned.” However, the last episode makes you forget the bad guys. With the voice of Paco, the writing of the votes, great. Because Kattalin says well. “Don’t be afraid… This is called POLITICS.”