And Cisco has some secrets of his own, too… His position is complicated even further when Primo de Rivera issues a pardon: Accept it, and you can go free, but only by admitting the crime in the first place. He gets, at least at first, lobster and sunbathing and visitors and camel rides on the beach. Correa’s play doesn’t hide from the intricacies of the situation: Unamuno doesn’t look like a prisoner. In the script by Irma Correa (with English subtitles by Heather McKay), the relationship between the two men forms the crux of the story as they debate, scheme, compare notes, and share experiences. There, while plotting his escape, he meets and befriends Cisco (Víctor De La Fuente, expressive and human) a local who has read exactly none of his works - but Cisco can name all the stars, and has plans for becoming a great whale hunter. It’s a tropical vacation - with a high IQ.ĭirected by José Luis Arellano and going on now until March 3 at the Gala Theatre, The Old Man, the Youth, and the Sea tells the story of Spanish poet, novelist, and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (Horacio Peña, who spars and fences like a pro), who was banished to the Canary Islands in 1924 by the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera for writings deemed injurious to the public good. But The Old Man, the Youth, and the Sea wouldn’t be nearly as gratifying if it didn’t also have a good head on its shoulders. The military complex imprisoning them both.

The impassioned women who love the former. A young man, who’s never left his tiny homeland, dreaming of traveling the world and finding the face of God. Stuff To Do In DC Theatre & Dance 0 2 min readĪ famous writer, exiled to a distant island in an act of political censorship.

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