Tittle: “El zoo de cristal”

Author: Tennessee Williams

Date and place of the representation: 15 of December of 2005, in the “Teatre Principal”

Distribution: Luis Tosar (Tom), Cristina Rota (Amanda), María Botto (Laura), Juan Carlos Vellido (Jim).

Artistic team: scenery and dressing room(Ana Garay), assistant of scenery and dressing room (Teresa Rodrigo), lighting (Felipe Branches), original music (Mariano Marín), recording musicians: trumpet (Patxi Urchegui), high saxophone  ( J.M Pérez Sagaste), piano ( Mariano Marín), recording study (Sound Garden), sound engineer ( Pepe Manchado), choreography of the waltz (Mónica Runde), graphic design (Luis Castro), photograph and portrait of the father of Tom (Jean Pierre Ledos), press (CNC/María Díaz), communication (CNC/Alicia Ovando), assistant of direction (Amanda Rodríguez), head of production  (Carlos Montalvo), executive production and distribution (Contemporary Theatrical Productions, S.L., Productions Cristina Rota, S.A.).

Technical team: realisation of set design (Montenegro,S.A.), realisation of dressing room (Cornejo), utilería (Mateos), transport ( Transpet), expert of lighting (Teatrek), machinist (Javier Pastrana), direct (Carlos Aparicio), manager (PCR).

The personages of this play of theatre are beings marginalized of  extreme sensitivities in general, they are victims of a rigid and castrated society, whose rules challenge in the middle of a dying world.

Amanda is a woman, faithful representative of the legendary south of the yesterday, with her fabulous delirium, it already lost. The image that she gives us is pathetic and painful with a comprehensive and impiadosa look at the time. Laura is a woman with her absolute incompetence to confront and compete the world of outside. Tom is a man that he deposits in him his anxieties, experimented in his youth, of being evaded of the familiar yoke to take it to the adventure of the live. And finally, it is the fourth personage that it symbolizes “the delayed something, but it always waited by the which we live”.

The author wants to reflect the painful experience of the life and he makes it with beings that they desire it and whose drama is that  they can't surrender  mutually what the others need.

Personal opinion: I had liked a lot of this play of theatre. It is very entertaining and it quite original.