Hecuba

Concha Velasco announced at the beginning of this 2020 his withdrawal with the work The funeral, directed by his son Manuel M. Velasco. a few years before, in 2013, had excited the audience at the Mérida Festival by interpreting this Hecuba that now we can see online courtesy of Pentación, so, This is a good way to see it in action again., although without the pulse and emotion of the live show. Juan Mayorga directs this Greek tragedy that we put in context so you don't get lost: Troy has fallen to the Greeks and their queen, the old Hecuba, She is confined on the beach with her daughter and other slave women.. They have killed her husband Priam and her son Hector, but he still doesn't suspect all the pain that is coming his way. The Greeks, to honor his hero Achilles, killed in battle, They decide to sacrifice the most beautiful of the Trojan women on her grave. This is the daughter of Hecuba, Polyxena. Here we witness Hecuba's first dialectical battle, this, to save his daughter; the next, seeking to convince Agamemnon, king of the greeks, to help him avenge his son Polidoro, cruelly murdered by the Thracian king Polymestor. She is a true master of rhetoric to whom the arguments, in this case, they will get you little comfort. Hecuba does not talk about the fall to hell of the former queen of Troy, later queen of the unfortunate, a mother from whom the war has taken everything and ends up cursing herself for not having known how to protect her children in a chilling final scene. Greek tragedy, Concha Velasco and Juan Mayorga form a trident that is difficult to resist. S.M.