Nostalgia for water

Manuel Galiana, winner of the 1998 National Theater Award, and Marta Belaustegui play the main characters in Nostalgia for Water. A meeting in a stone picnic area, on the shore of a swamp. He, a sullen fisherman. She, a mysterious woman who shuns silence. A confusing relationship that is discovered through humor, fear, differences and also what unites them.

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MOVING PERFORMANCE

"I never imagined that this piece made of atmospheres, silences and diffuse presentiments could materialize and, even less, in such an eloquent and moving way as in this staging by Jesús Salgado, in which two extraordinary and admired interpreters shine: Marta Belaustegui and Manuel Galiana. It is difficult to express so much astonishment and gratitude.

Ernesto Caballero, author of the play Nostalgia for Water

THE SHOW

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ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL DATA SHEETS

A play by Ernesto Caballero

Director: Jesús Gª Salgado

Production: Teatro Del Duende

Scenography: José Luis Raymond

Cast: Manuel Galiana, Marta Belaustegui, Natalia Fernandez

Lighting design: Ciru Cerdeiriña

Wardrobe: Malgorzata Zak-Eva Iszoro

Photography: Eduardo García

CAST OF ACTORS

Manuel Galiana and Marta Belaustegui play the main characters in Nostalgia for Water, two characters with different lives that converge in a common search.

		Manuel Galiana (Madrid, 1941) is known for his recognized work in theater, film and television. In 1998 he was awarded the National Theater Award "for his professional career in all theatrical genres and his high acting quality". He has also received other prestigious awards such as the Gold Medal of Valladolid, the Silver Minerva of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Rojas Zorrilla of Toledo and the Ricardo Clavo Performance Award of the Madrid City Council. In addition, he has been awarded as best actor at the Palencia Theater Festival and has received the Award for Quality in Theater from the Asociación de Amigos de Teatro de España. His passion for theater also led him to open his own company, Martes Teatro, and to set up the Estudio 2 theater in Madrid, where he teaches acting classes and gives performances.
		Marta Belaustegui (Madrid, 1966) began her professional career in 1984 and since then has worked both on stage and in film and television studios. As a theater actress, she has worked in plays such as The Cherry Orchard, by Chekhov; Lovers, by Vicente Aranda; Tell My Daughter I Went on a Trip, by Denis Chalem; The Comedy of Errors, by Shakespeare; Live Like Pigs, by John Arden; Santa Cruz, by Max Frisx; La cabeza del dragón, by Valle Inclán; Las troyanas, by Euripides; Los balcones de Madrid, by Tirso de Molina; Las picardías de Scapin, by Molière; Los escándalos de un pueblo, by Goldoni, among others. In 1994, together with Jesús Salgado, she founded the company Teatro del Duende. Currently, she also directs the International Film Festival Mujeres en Dirección and the traveling exhibition Mujeres en dirección nómada. In this context, she carried out the campaign against gender violence Somos más libres sin violencia (We are freer without violence). She also directed the short film Bajo la Máscara together with Jesús Ruiz, for which she received the ES + award from the Ministry of Equality in 2009 for her commitment to the eradication of violence against women.

JESÚS GARCÍA SALGADO. DIRECTOR

Jesús Gª Salgado began his career in 1981, when he joined the Teatro de Cámara de Madrid, where he remained until 1993 and from 2012 to 2015. Graduated from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid, he founded in 1993 the company Teatro del Duende, together with María Belaustegui.

He has directed all of his productions: La Tinaja by Pirandello ( 1993); La cabeza del dragón by Valle-Inclán (1994); Santa Cruz by Max Frisch (1998); Los chismes de las mujeres by C. Goldoni (1999); Vale, cuéntamelo pero rapidito (2002); Vivir como cerdos by John Arden (2003); Cervantes entre Palos (2004); La comedia de las equivocaciones by W. Shakespeare (2005); The Comedy of the Baby, by Edward Albee (2006); Tell My Daughter I Went on a Trip by Denise Chalem (2007); Sabiond@s by Molière (2008); Spring Awakening by Wedekind (2009); Massacre Game by Ionesco (2010); Máscaras Desnudas (La Tinaja) by Pirandello (2011); El Retablo de las Maravillas by Cervantes, a production produced in Peru (2012). MaTRIOska, three short stories by Chekhov (2013). Don Dinero based on El vizcaíno fingido by Cervantes and poems by Quevedo, Arcipreste de Hita and Góngora (2015).

In addition, since 1993 he has been teaching Acting at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid, where he is currently head of the Acting Department. Until 2008 he was a professor at the ESAD in Torrelodones (University of Kent, Canterbury), where he also headed the Department of Acting and Stage Direction from 2000 to 2008.

He has also directed El abanico by C. Goldoni, (1996), for the TVE program Lo tuyo es puro teatro; A puerta cerrada" by J. P. Sartre (1997); El Tartufo by Molière, for Lo tuyo es puro Teatro (2001); Querido, estuviste maravilloso, by S. Berkoff (2004); El pájaro azul by M. Maeterlink (2007); What a formidable brothel by Ionesco (2012); "Fotomatón" by Gustavo Ott (2010); "Por el sótano y el torno" by Tirso de Molina (2012); The Three Sisters, by A. Chekhov (2013); Terror and Misery of the III Reicht, by Bertold Brecht (2016).

He currently combines his acting classes with the direction of Teatro del Duende.