With the title Songs on the bitch-witch women, which plays in English with the words bitch-wicth (whore-witch), Mariona Naudin presents a piece that arises from the case of Ana Orantes, the woman who in 1997 appeared in the program From afternoon to afternoon on Canal Sur to recount the constant abuse she had suffered for forty years at the hands of her ex-husband and, a week later, she was murdered by him, in the patio of the house they shared by order of a judge, she says. The dramaturgy.
“That murder promoted the first comprehensive law against gender violence in the State, approved in 2004 during the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,” continues Naudin, who with this work wants to pay “a tribute to Ana Orantes, who spoke although “I knew I would probably receive serious consequences for doing so.” Because, for the director and performer, “speaking and being listened to, believed, inevitably gives us dignity.”
The work premieres at the Fundació Joan Brossa – Center de les Arts Lliures and, through a hybridization of artistic disciplines, explores this heartbreaking story. On stage, together with Mariona Naudin, María García Vera and the percussionist Núria Andorrà perform. On the poster until April 21.
