La desconocida

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Note of intent

When we arrive to all what we had dreamt about, Where we arrive? Hardly anything that what we have dreamt about in the past, will look alike now. Along the way of life certain parts become lost. There are unavoidable resignations, changes in the sense of way, unexpected discoveries, developments that transform us. And maybe something essential has been left behind during the voyage. To meet someone else, somebody who has been close to us, may move us to look back. Watching at all that someone isn’t, the mirror-like vision becomes evident. The shock forces us, at least, to rethink the situation. And maybe it gives us a chance to incorporate that very important thing we had forgotten about.

Synopsis

Clara (39) is a well-known illustrator that less than a year ago won a very important prize that changed her economic status and found herself on the public eye, so she moved with her family to a suburb to be more focused on her work. Her husband, Francisco, is her pleader and defender, sometimes over-protective. Also Sammie, her agent. Between both of them, kind of handle Clara´s life. Among this adaptation and discovery, she goes to the town to buy something, and finds Ariel, the butcher, her old boyfriend, with whom 20 years ago, dreamed of living in that place. The impact is mutual. Ariel doesn’t know anything about the public life of Clara and she enjoys this on top of everything. They start a series of random encounters, continued by some programmed ones, doing things that they used to do and are no longer part of her current life. Ariel lives one day at a time, without thinking or expecting too much. Something that contrasts a lot with Clara’s family and working life, full of important and exposed events, as well as tidy up and tight orders. Clara goes into crisis with what she has to draw next, finding herself in an unknown place, where she finds out from Ariel who she was and who is she now. What changed, what is her essence, what she lost? Who she wants to be from now?

Visual concept

Starting the play about a leading female character, an illustrator, I’m interested in exploring the gaze of somebody who draws, who imagines, and the interplay between the movie image’s internal reality and its possible proximity to her imagination. Since everything happens against a placid suburb resembling a village, there is a chance for beauty, a green landscape with fruit tress as contrast, of natural color spots that may be close to or a counterpoint to the drawings. The village where she meets her former boyfriend has to be something stopped in time; this can make more sense with the feelings she is reliving and a contrast to her house, more refined in terms of aesthetic beauty.