Alfredo Valenzuela I Seville, (EFE) They will tell their lives based on monologues not exempt from drama but full of humor.
“Old Pride”, which already has a run of a year and a half and which will premiere on March 1 on the tables of the Alameda Theater in Seville, is also a decalogue in which these women set conditions to materialize their desire to to live, to be happy and to have fun, and aspires to become a platform, since they understand that both their theatrical show and their film are a call “to the old ladies of the world”.
With the theatrical premiere on March 1, the filming of the film “Old Pride” will culminate, directed by Chema Rodríguez and featuring the performance of the musician and actor Falín Galín, who today assured that working with these women “has been a a gift, an adventure, a year and a half of roller coaster, emotions, learning, seeing life from another perspective and coming to the conclusion that you have to enjoy and be well with others”.
Of the eight monologists, seven – only Pepi was missing – have appeared today before journalists and television cameras with the naturalness of someone who has been doing it all their lives, although their only experience with the public was last September when, in the Triana neighborhood, offered a preview of “Old Pride” for family and friends.
Tinder to boost self esteem
Pepa, 74, has told journalists that when her husband died she “flew away, after so many years in the cage” and then she has assured that she had done a Tinder to raise her self-esteem, and that this application gave her he likes it more than the so-called “Adopt an uncle” because, he exclaimed, “we have been adopting uncles all our lives”.
Remedios, 66, has the particularity of having four fingers on each hand -which she proudly shows when she tells it- and that if it is said of some people that when they are born they break the mold, she must have been born in a broken mold, and that her monologue is titled “Chance” because she came to this group by chance.
Ángeles, who is a transsexual woman, has not said her age, but she has said that she is the youngest in the meeting and has recounted with fine irony: “I am the youngest of five sisters, so you can imagine the illusion that made my father when the child was finally born.
The dean of “Old Pride”, Rafaela, with six great-grandchildren, is going to turn 97, spent ten years as an immigrant in Germany and on her return bought three apartments in Seville and a small rice paddy, she could not go to school as a child but with the Over the years he came to write his own memoirs, and has concluded by exclaiming: “If I can at 97, we all can!”
living man widow
Catalina, 69, has referred to the decalogue of “Old Pride” to ask for justice, dignity, pensions and decent meeting places and that “they do not treat us like girls”, and then she said that to the question of “dependents? ” You have to answer: “Yes, but from Zara”, in order to have modern clothes and shoes.
Esperanza, 84, has recounted that when she had been a widow for 33 years she met Manuel -Manuel was among the informants attending the presentation, full of pride and satisfaction- to whom she put three conditions: “The first that each one in their home, the second that he did not take away my freedom and the third that, of sex, nothing….. but in the third we have failed”.
Antoñita, 78, has defined herself as a “widow of a living man” because, she explained, she decided to “bury him alive” and never see him again, so she has lived without a husband for 35 years and, now that her children are have become independent, it is your turn to be happy.
The film director Chema Rodríguez has highlighted “the strength and joy of living” of these women, and has assured that, unlike what happens with men, when old age comes they go out, they wake up. EFE
