Jéssica Martínez Villalba (ES)
Authors / Theater
is a producer, playwright and actress. She lives and works in Valencia, Spain.
She is currently Executive Director of the Association of Performing Artists in the Valencia Comitè Escèniques and co-director of the Creador-es Residencias Teatrales project. Previous cooperations include f.i. Roland Schimmelpfennig, Paco Zarzoso, Xavier Puchades, Esteve Soler, El Pont Flotant, Edgar Chías and Christian Drut.
Publications (selection):
2019 AHÍ VA ELLE
2017 JULIA ARÉVALO: mujer de y miel
LA TORMENTA DE NIEVE (The Snowstorm), together w/ Roland Schimmelpfennig, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s short story of the same name
Works
THE EMPTY LAND, German by Roland Schimmelpfennig
2019
Spain. A lost stretch of epmty land called the Lapland of the South. After the great rural exodus, there are no more than eight inhabitants per square kilometer.
Alejandra, in her mid-thirties, is coming here for the first time willing to sell her mother’s empty house, who had lived here a long time ago. But the house is not empty at all: old Tomás, the only person still living in the village, opens her the door. Alejandra does not understand what is going on: what does this man do in her house? Who is he?
What at first seems like a somewhat strained but polite conversation turns out to be a battle between two models of life; the distance between village and city, which today seems unbridgeable, becomes a mirror of the distance between generations.