Valladolid will see the long-awaited premiere of the theatrical adaptation of “Holy Innocents.”

National premiere of Miguel Delibes’s work Holy Innocents A beautiful bee flies on the stage of the Calderon Theater in Valladolid from April 8 to 10 in a work that is “still in force” as directed by Javier Hernandez-Simon and his two protagonists this Thursday, at a press conference by Javier Giaubier Dacierre Gauber.

It was Gutierrez, who plays Paco El Baggio in the play, who admitted to being inspired by Mario Camus’s film and the character played by Alfredo Landa on the big screen, which won an award at the festival. Skin.

“Landa inspired the interpretation of a character who emphasizes inequality, and it is happening nowadays, with certain forms of superiority over one part of the population,” Gutierrez said.

Expensive private production

The Austrian actor, born in Luanko 51 years ago, highlighted the “enormous courage” of the production, with nine actors and high costs, which, in his opinion, offers a public staging when it is private.

Hernandez-Simon assured that the theatrical version of the play is an “extraordinary challenge” and, in his view, it is also “something from the past, but a warning for the future, because it encourages us to think about what we want.” “Let it be,” he clarified.

The director asked the journalists how it took so long for the play to be staged and performed in a theatrical language.

He added that Delibes in his novel does not show the circumstances and characters that were and are no longer; On the contrary, he warned that these circumstances and those characters “never ended up leaving, they are still there, even if it means otherwise.”

For his part, Jacobo Dicenta, who plays the senior Ivan, whom Juan Diego put his face and eyes on in the cinema, described his character as “life-distorted”, with behavior that evokes a “very deep” reflection. this time.

Adapted by Fernando Marias

Innocent saints, It was published in 1981 by the Editorial Planeta and is the first story by a Valladolid writer to be transformed into a film and theater, with this premiere directed by Javier Hernandez-Simone, with version author Fernando Maria.

In Extremadura in the sixties of the last century, Delibes created this novel as a result of his raiding in this part of the country and condemned social injustice, illiteracy, unequal distribution of land, dehumanization and subjugation of the lower classes, the rich.

It was filmed with great success in 1984 and is now still in the news with this adaptation, in which Luis Bermekho portrays Azarias, who calls the unforgettable “Beautiful Milan” in the mouth of Paco Rabal. He has won several awards and he also named his house in Aguilas (Murcia) where the actor was born.

In addition to the aforementioned Javier Gutierrez as Paco El Baggio and Jacobo Dicenta as Senior Ivan, the main characters are Pepa Pedroshe, who plays Regula, and Yune Nogueiras, who, among other actors and actresses, will perform Nieuve Nouveau. All of them are at a press conference this Thursday.

Holy Innocents Is the latest adaptation of the literary work of Miguel Delibes (1920-2010), which has previously seen theatrical performances. Five hours with Mario (1982), Red leaf (1987), The wars of our ancestors (1990) and Red lady on a gray background (2008).