Ingmar Bergman, theater creator of “Tras el ensayo”.

Seduced by the autobiographical court film that I proposed to stage the head of the Spanish theater Eduardo Vasco, Ernesto Caballero published a dramatized version of this story on April 4 (and until May 17). in which the author He whispers and whispers perform an act of regret.

Trans el thinko it is the story of a famous director, Henrik Vogler (Emilio Tomé), Bergman’s alter ego, who reflects on his career and obsessions. Willing to write a play, he is interrupted by the entrance of Anna (Elisa Hipólito), a young actress who has lost the memory of her mother Rachel (Lucía Quintana), also an old celebrity, creating a kind of sentimental triangle in which the past and the present intermingle in explicit form and suggestion.

“The plot of Toda revolves around this director who sums up what happened at the beginning of the story and explains art as life and life as art.” In this case, Bergman uses the work as a remedy for redemption. “If you expose yourself to this mask and see the lights and shadows of your profession and how this story could lead to emotional corpses in the hearth”.

And it is that, although there is a story from someone from the decade, “the reality is that at this moment they form part of the great omnipotent figures of theater and cinema that define and mark the rumbling of the entire European scene”, reminds Caballero above. This type of director who also reacts to the model auctoritas it is under review today. Now, if it works more horizontally, the director is not such a helpful figure, in the wrong sense of the word.”

“Bergman reflects on how his profession might leave emotional corpses.” Ernesto Caballero

Fiction or reality reveals the boundary between characters or actors, Bergman and his alter ego, in this evocative work, for which Caballero, through the work of Víctor Longás, transformed Margarita Xirga’s room at the Teatro Español into a small room of a room. ad hoc.

“Bergman also does a great exercise in honesty here. And finally, by problematizing these relations between art and life, which are now so valid, I think about the case of Picasso-Rosalía and have an emotional reflection on this problem, which was once also a difference in life and all the conflict that today this theme refers to power relations, “explains Caballero.

Anyway, that’s it Trans el thinko everyone knows the story of Vogler, Caballero – who will also appear in another great reference work at the end of the year, Largo viaje hacia la nocheby Eugene O’Neill – it also strengthens the presence of female characters.

“I mostly looked at Anna above, for example Oleanna de Mamet. And in Rachel’s case, she’s hiding a job with a despedida where we don’t really know if it’s the real Quintana actress or the fictitious one we’re talking about. Thus I tried to ignore the casualty status on paperwhich is sometimes very appreciated in the original,” he says.