The Eyes: A Telluric Melodrama

Argentine playwright and director Pablo Messiez's Los ojos (2011) adapts to the theatre the classic nineteenth-century Spanish novel Marianela (1878) by Benito Pérez Galdós. In doing so Messiez gives the narrative a political twist, questioning the extent to which the domain of sight, or that which is superficially evident, is an accurate representation of reality.

In equal parts disturbing and provocative, the play received critical acclaim following its theatrical premiere in Madrid's Teat...