El zoo de vidre

When Oriol Broggi asked me what I thought of the glass zoo, I had to be honest with him: I had read it for more than twenty years and more than ten years that I had seen a wonderfully free version at a theater in Buenos Aires... So I remembered very little of it, the image of a lame girl living in a glassy window. When I came home, I looked for her in my library, and in the years, I read another work. The work of a mother, Amanda, who drowns her children so much that she loves them, and a boy who can't do so, that thirst for freedom pushes her forward. The work of four good people who get hurt... I went to see Oriol and told her that I was excited, that I didn't think it would have cost the work the time, on the contrary, how many families, how many people live alone and surrounded, they in the middle of that greyness, without understanding, without the possibility of redemption, hopelessness, but also tenderness... So, Oriol, seeing my illusion and, not to say, my mental cocoa, gave me the best gift in the world. He proposed directing it, but not only that, he proposed directing it in the freest way, almost as if it were a rehearsal, a workshop, not an end, fail, play and experience, you will have time for success! I imagine in the days that we are running to find an artist with a company that encourages the hiring of another, almost unknown, and proposes that he play and make mistakes is not the most common. But this isn't a common place, The Library is a very unique space, and I hope our Zoo, it's a spectacular failure or a success, too.

Martina Cabanas Collell