“After dragging the dead around the world for so long, this is the gift of this present”, declares Lola Herrera in the presentation of Adictos, by Daniel Dicenta Herrera and Juanma Gómez. The dead man is Mario, of course, the one in the play based on the novel by Delibes Five hours with Mario, which Herrera has staged for decades.
The staging of Adictos, the play in which she is now starring at the Goya theater in Barcelona, ​​starts performances today (until June 4), after a tour that has taken her to half of Spain.
The veteran actress is accompanied on stage by Lola Baldrich and Ana Labordeta, under the direction of Magüi Mira. After La trena, the Goya returns with a work by women, which addresses the future that awaits us, marked by technology.
At 87 years old, Lola Herrera stars in a story “in which we talk about possible realities towards which we are headed”. The actress encouraged her son and Juanma Gómez to write this piece that she draws “where advances and their misuse take us.”
And he adds: “We found it very necessary to talk about it. In the theater the public comes and we tell them the story, and they will take something away about how the world is and where it will take us.”
Lola Baldrich believes that Addicted “talks about what makes us human beings slaves today. The dictators of this addiction to digital advances are ourselves, who bring loneliness and destruction.”
For her part, Ana Labordeta values ​​the fact that the show is led by three women, “already of an age; this is rarely seen in the theater and in audiovisuals.” And she considers that “you have to have a feeling of complicity and commitment and the three of us understand it that way: the stage has to have a ritual that has to be taken care of”.
“Addicts takes place in a very troubled society –explains Herrera–. We are many and the great powers manage to see how they eliminate what bothers them, what is left over. They take advantage of the progress of science to turn it into the key to open his path, which becomes something terrifying for the weakest in society”.
“I think we know almost nothing of what is in the minds of those who govern us –continues the protagonist–. It will favor the great powers, who are the ones who organize the world in their own way.” But she offers a glimmer of hope: “Like everything, if it was used well, it could be wonderful, but it is not used well. It creates the need that if you don’t have the latest you are a wretch.”
Lola Herrera considers that “talking about what happens is always good, and more so in the theater, so that it can make you reflect. We lack reflection because we are in a hurry,” she concludes.
