Vivir el teatro

After more than fifty years dedicated to the world of theater, José Luis Alonso de Santos, one of our most acclaimed playwrights in the world, has felt the need to review his career. Or, rather, his life. And here is the result: a kind of summary, or memoir, of his adventures with, in, within, by and for the theater. Thus, Living the theater is not a play or an essay about it. Although it is a compendium of what this means for the author, his vivid and unique experience of what it is to live in the middle. Because, as he knows well, you have to risk your life in every sentence you write, in every performance on stage, in every sign of direction, in every communication through art. If not, the game is just a simulation and stops making sense. Because, in other words, the first thing is to put your heart raw and show it to the public. Or, paraphrasing Calderón de la Barca, as will be understood when reading this work, we must always "return to our conversation." What is theater and what is it for? Can it be learned? How can we give scenic form to the formless and make the invisible visible? What is time, on stage and in life? How to enter the authentic dimension of beauty? This book is, dear reader, the legacy of a great playwright, the life in the stage of José Luis Alonso. Do not miss it.