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THE OLD MAN, THE YOUTH AND THE SEA 
GALA HISPANIC THEATER
The world premier of  Irma Correa’s  El Viejo, el Joven y el Mar is an  occasion to celebrate the enduring truth and beauty of reason and empathy. 
El viejo is Miguel de Unamuno, an early 20th century Spanish existential philosopher and writer whose opposition to the regime  of General Rivera let to his imprisonment in 1924 on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands where he would remain for 6 years.   
El joven is Cisco, a young fisherman assigned to guard him.   
As Unamuno plots his escape from the sandy prison,  Cisco dreams of one day leaving to be on a whaling ship.  
El mar holds the answer for both.
Unamuno and Cisco develop a delicate balance in their relationship, which lead to choices which will have life changing consequences for both. 
The cast is outstanding with Horacio Peña as Unamuno and Victor De La Fuente as Cisco.  In dual roles are Delbis Cardona as Dumay,a journalist helping him with plans to escape and also as the General who imprisons him,  and  Luz Nicolas as his wife Concha and also as Delfina, a woman in love with his ideas who comes to offer her plan for his escape. 
José Luis Arellano directs this meditative play  with its ideas  as powerful as the sea which holds the way for both freedom and dreams.  The Old Man, TheYouth and the Sea at GALA is a gift for our time.

Photo credit: L to R. Horacio Peña and Víctor de la Fuente. Photo Stan Weinstein

THE OLD MAN, THE YOUTH AND THE SEA at GALA until March 2, 2019

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