Sergio Jimenez Foronda
Logroño, (EFE).- The theatrical and musical work “Tan sabia como valorosa” stages “a hymn to freedom and courage” of the poets, writers and playwrights of the Golden Age, who “have been in the shadows for so long ”.
This was stated to EFE by the harpist Sara Águeda, who, accompanied by the singer Rita Barber and the actresses Carmen del Valle and Lara Grube, participates in this “feminist anthology”, carried out in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute.
This work is represented this Saturday in the La Rioja monastery of Santa María la Real de Nájera, within the initiative of the Government of La Rioja “Voces de la Lengua”, which is configured as a space for artistic creation that revolves around the Spanish language .
Agueda (Madrid, 1983) has explained that this work is “a very exciting spectacle”, which raises texts by writers from the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, from which she takes her title; María de Zayas y Sotomayor, Ana Caro de Mallén, Zaida, Concha Méndez, Sister María do Ceo, Ángela de Azevedo and Santa Teresa de Jesús.
“Very warlike” authors
He has indicated that the public that has already come to see “As wise as it is courageous” listens “carefully” to the recited words of these authors “very warlike and ahead of their time with incredible texts”.
This work, he has continued, is “a feminine and plural vision of all those spaces that they found to shout for their freedom within the convents, the stages and literature”, since they were “women capable of being ahead of their time to, a bit, to claim equality between men and women”.
He has indicated that “Tan sabia como valorosa” includes “fragments of his works, which are going to pass from one voice of the actresses to another, and the harp acts as a union and link between all these texts”.
“We have also set many of the writings to music and we sing them between Barber and me” and “all this gives connection and cohesion to all the texts of these women, who have nothing to envy to those of the men of that time”, has underlined.
love, freedom and rage
Águeda has specified that this initiative has “a very simple staging because what matters is cleanliness, simplicity and, above all, giving real importance to those texts, which will find their place and be said from different enclaves” of the monastery .
“It’s a ‘pass the ball’ from one to the other with a lot of sisterhood and listening. For us it has been a job to be involved in that ”, she pointed out.
Regarding the works that can be heard in this performance, he has indicated that they have common themes that “talk about love, freedom, knowledge and the brilliance that each of the authors has”; as well as “the rage of not being able to go out and express themselves and that her creations cannot be public.”
Among her future work projects, Águeda has indicated that next summer she is scheduled to participate in more than 40 concerts, both in England, Germany and France as well as in Spain, for example, at the Almagro International Classical Theater Festival, together with the actor from La Rioja Pepe Viyuela.