When she was young, during a work stay in Paris, Rosa Renom met the actress María Casares. “It looked like twice as bright to her”, shyly admits the actress from Sabadell, who now, during the pandemic, dazzled with the letters that the Spanish actress and the writer Albert Camus sent to each other for more than fifteen years .
She, exiled in France, where he became a star of the stage, and he, far from his native Algeria following the Nazi invasion of France, lived a love and intellectual passion, which they reflected in a lot of letters (865), today collected in one volume.
It was Renom who thought that this was very good material to make a theatrical piece out of and she herself translated them into Catalan. Now, directed by Mario Gas, the actor Jordi Boixaderas plays the existentialist writer, author of La pesta, and she stops being the double of lights to become the actress she admires so much.
Regarding what the letters say, the actress thinks “that she is more direct, and he is more literary and reserved”, and considers that both are referents that “are missed at times like the current one”.
Boixaderas declares that in the montage they do not really play the two characters, but act as “two officiants who read and bring to life texts that have a life of their own”.
Gas defines Casares-Camus: a love story, co-produced by Temporada Alta and Teatre Lliure, as “a show in the flesh, subtle, but at the same time very simple”. The play premieres on December 2 and 3 at the Teatre de Salt, and will be presented from January 2 to 21, 2024 at the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia.
