TARARA – LA TARARA

Rosa, a young violinist who believes she sees Liszt and other deceased composers who help her play the violin, grows up in the heart of the SanFran district. La Tarara, a prostitute who works the streets, accompanies her in the struggle against her phantoms. The adult Rose and the child Rose are entwined in a coming and going of memories that linger over a secret barely perceived: fire, ashes and oblivion, which spread like a protective cloak. Until some love letters found in a drawer rescue the broken memory of a girl abounding with so much music and beauty that there is no room for fear.

This play by the author Josi Alvarado from Alicante won the I Premio SGAE de Teatro ‘Ana Diosdado’ 2019. With great sensitivity and elegance, the text goes far beyond what is written, capable of transmitting music through silences that resound emotion. It is a text with the vocation of a thriller dazed by the tremor of poetry. La Tarara is the untold story of so many children, an initiatory and addictive journey into the depths of the flesh. It is a tale about forgiveness, a hymn to differences in which Little Red Riding Hood finally plays the violin to the wolves.