RAFAEL ALBERTI RETURNS TO IBIZA

Rafael Alberti, accompanied by his first wife, Maria Teresa Leon, visited the island of Ibiza in 1936. Which, At first, What was going to be a pleasant vacation for the famous couple soon became the beginning of a nightmare., not only for them, but for all Spaniards: the civil War.

So that, in that summer of 1936, love and war, moments of contemplation and moments of risk, They ended up mixing to constitute a powerful aesthetic and vital experience for Rafael Alberti..

Produccions Aïllades reconstructs that stage in the life of the Cadiz poet in a new installment of the series The monologues of history. An actor plays the poet who, through a dramatized reading of some 35 minutos, takes us into a private story, of love and poetic contemplation in the Ibiza of the first cosmopolitan travelers of the 1930s, as well as in the ideological tensions of that decade that ended up exploding in some terrible days. The production is directed by Ramon Mayol. The adaptation of the text is by Carlos Garrido, based on the book by Antonio Colinas “Rafael Alberti in Ibiza. “Six weeks of the summer of 1936” (Tusquets).