Bees, topos, crows
Gaizka Sarasola
Edo! Editorial, 2016

He has brought us three plays of Gaizka Sarasola. Editorials, Bees, topos and crows, gathered and stripped by the title: The water is small, underground and Talca. The first and third were premiered in 2013 and 2015, while the second was awarded in 2013 at the Café Bilbao competition.

This edition contains three G points of the current Basque theatre: The author Gaizka Sarasola, the preamble of Galder Pérez and the discourse of Oier Guillan, which combines comedy and drama, absurdity and politics, tradition and modernity.

Drink from the Basque culture by using elements taken from the basket or from the rural environment, but also from the experimental, committed and avant-garde theater, such as the two characters awaiting Godot, the social criticism of the conversation of characters with the trace of the subterranean insects, or the crazy linked to the chain that shouts the truth.

For many, the function of today's theater is to move the interior of viewers, to generate emotions, to awaken consciences. In these works, we'll find that. Sarasola will not give us any chance at the distance we make when reading news from newspapers or watching television news. The crisis, the war, the death will bring us on a board of crudes served. We are presented with lives without heaven, very tied to the earth, and all in darkness. In the forest, in the bar-zulo, in a desolate countryside.

In the work The waters shine we will find the Moon and Willi on the edge of the forest road. A dance of despair and hope will spread over time, and the weight of the past will condition the future by questioning whether change is possible.

In Lur azpian, retired miners Martin, Pedro, Luciano and Lucas will meet in an empty bar to play the mus in the middle of the night. The fight and accidents of the miners will spin with the socio-economic crisis in the talks, and they will also refer to the metamorphosis of Kafka.

Finally, in the Talaka, we will have “character” only on the stage. It is tied to a collision with a chain and a (radio) voice tells us the story of the miners killed by the police in South Africa. Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock will be some of the protagonists of the series, which will try to distance the characters from the field. It will also equate work with slavery, putting the current neo-liberalism at the centre. The poor conditions of the working class, alienation and the call for class struggle will be explained. In the words of the character that can be you or me: “The trenches are everywhere. Everyone is in their trenches. The world is a war camp!”