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Susana Hornos directs this show starring Raquel Pérez and Nacho Guerreros

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The Fernán Gómez theater, Centro Cultural da Villa presents “In the turtle's shella work of Ignasi Vidal, directed by Susana Hornos and with Raquel Pérez and Nacho Guerreros as protagonists. The work can be seen Until April 23rd 2023 in “Jardiel Poncela Room” this space depends on the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Madrid City Council.

The play tells the story of Alícia and Heitor, a divorced couple for a long time, who met again to talk about her daughter's emotional imbalances. in the background the Maundy Thursday of a Sevillian Holy Week, in the foreground the story of the family life of a marriage full of ups and downs, in which their profession occupied most of the shared time. The two protagonists hide their feelings of guilt in a tug of war of reproaches that culminates in the discovery of an event that should never have occurred.

One day I decided to write about the contradictions of human beings, those that lead us to say one thing and do the opposite.

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Ignasi Vidal tells what led him to writeIn the turtle's shell” and what are the main ideas that are addressed in the work.”One day I decided to write about the contradictions of human beings.those that lead us to say one thing and do the opposite“, comments the author. And expresses”that urgent need we have to appear exactly the opposite of who we are, which taken to extremes where a lack of empathy occupies the place that compassion should occupy in the soul, can result in the most aberrant of situations“.

The author adds that “when these characters are developed in a liberal, artistic and apparently liberal environment, they take on grotesque tones. And it is in this environment that I develop this work that puts on the table a universal social scourge and how the executioner, the victim and the spectator coexist”.