Inspired by the life and work of Rosalía de Castro, "Rosalía" is a theatrical show that portrays the writer's last years at Casa de La Matanza, in Padrón, until her death in 1885. Performances take place in any unconventional space, such as institutions, museums or even in private homes.
Born in 1837 in Santiago de Compostela, Rosalía is considered the first Galician feminist and one of the pioneers in Spain. She was the greatest representative of the Resurgence, a movement that elevated Galician to a cultured language after years in the shadows.
With the creative actress Cristina Cavalcanti and the artistic and research collaboration of Henrique Pina, the work is woven from poems, songs, manifestos, letters and facts from Rosalía's life. It seeks its convergences with today and with the actress's life story, and investigates how the woman and the artist intersect.
It goes through the history of Galicia, the birthplace of the Galician-Portuguese Romance language, and also draws a parallel between the lexicons of Galician - Rosalía's mother tongue - Portuguese, the actress's mother tongue, and Castilian - the language in which Rosalía wrote part of her work. Passionate about the word and its variations, the actress explored the language in dramaturgical construction. To do this, he also delved deeper into the study of Spanish.
Through the knowledge of these very important but little explored matrices, there is a search to deepen the understanding of an essence that even precedes the one that connects Brazil and Portugal. Uncovering these connections is like looking at yourself and your ancestry.
After the show, there is a debate on Galician and Lusophony, and a libretto program with the poems presented is distributed to each spectator.
Rosalía de Castro's poetry revived the literary identity of her people. He was the greatest representative of the Resurgence, a movement that proposed the literalization and dignification of the Galician language, until then seen as an oral and popular dialect. Her poems no longer sang about the maiden's love for the boy, but rather rescued the Galician identity: the woman took on a voice not to mourn the beloved who had passed away, but to sing about her land, her struggles.
The work moves between a social concern for the harsh conditions of Galician fishermen and peasants and a metaphysical concern, which places it within existential literature.
It has been equated with that of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer as a late work of Spanish Romanticism.
A poetry that denotes anxiety, an anguished restlessness in the face of strange premonitions that one perceives as one's own. Likewise, his painful sensitivity projected a set of magnificent visions of the Galician landscape in which a gray atmosphere of indefinable sadness predominates. It was this sensitivity that conveyed a conception of nature as that of an animated, mysterious reality, and whose most visible signs speak of a painful life.
The performance takes place in an environment reminiscent of “Casa de la Matanza”, the place where the writer lived her last years, now transformed into a museum. The narrative is constructed through poetry, documents such as articles, manifestos, letters written by her, and songs composed with lyrics from her poems. Tragic facts from the author's personal life come to light in certain scenes, such as the moment when she loses her two-year-old son Adriano in a terrible domestic accident, an event from which she never recovered, followed by an abortion and cancer that led to her death. his death at the age of 48.
