Theatrical critics of the week: the failed comedy by Alfredo Sanzol, a sainete by Natalia Menéndez and the goodbye by Dagoll Dagom

Fundamentally fantasies for resistance,

written and directed by Alfredo Sanzol, is a mixed bag in which a supposedly tragic plot about the war in Ukraine and another extremely parodic intermingle without harmony or concert.

On the one hand, the author and director from Navarre tells the adventures of Patricia, a Kievite author who is writing a comedy for her company entitled

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while on the other she stages said comedy.

The serious part of his show is full of meta-theatrical considerations, but the comic part is purely caricatured.

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ends with shots, stab wounds and blood.

But without dramas, because it is basically a comedy of entanglements.

Of course, well constructed, with various biblical and popular references and exciting for its savagery: not so much because of its too obvious attacks against fanaticism as because its author, the Uruguayan Gabriel Calderón, did not shake his hand when it came to suspending the reality, mix genres and twist situations to the max.

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, which will be their last show after fifty years of activity, the Dagoll Dagom company proposes a typically modernist allegory that confronts the bohemian artist with society.

The best of this performance are all its performers, who demonstrate an excellent level of singing and dancing in a proposal that at times may seem designed for an adolescent audience, with a plot whose simplicity is underlined by music heavily influenced by hip hop.

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