La Estupidez (fr)

Las Vegas. A dingy motel is the setting for a whirlwind of scenes that compete with one another in their stupidity. All the characters are there looking for money, love and meaning.

But how much does meaning cost? And what is the meaning of money? Are cinema usherettes prepared to sell their bodies to find love? What is a painting worth when its colours have faded? Will the Sicilian mafia get into the radio Top 40?

‘Estupidez’ can be translated as ‘a blunder’, but also as ‘stupidity’. Taking inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch’s painting of the seven deadly sins, the Argentinian Rafael Spregelburd (1970) wrote seven plays about our present deadly sins. In La Estupidez he focuses on miserliness.

Twenty-four characters come on and go off again, played by just five actors. The result is an exuberant and entertaining theatrical feat. A mixture of sitcom, road movie and soap, which shows a world on the blink, wavering between chaos and order.