Aloma

Mercè Rodoreda

Musical Theatre Last season, the TNC inaugurated the Rodoreda Year with the staging of La plaça del Diamant This year it will close it with all honours and, to do so, it has programmed a new adaptation of a novel by the writer from Sant Gervasi. Dagoll Dagom brings to the Sala Gran Aloma, the book with which Mercè Rodoreda obtained the Crexells Award in 1937 and which she revised extensively in 1969, when in exile. A musical version that fuses two voices, that of the young Aloma and that of the mature Aloma, and transmits the richness of language characteristic of Rodoredian narrative. Aloma is the novel of the loss of childhood, of the passage to maturity and of the assumption of one’s own destiny. Focusing on a young girl, wholly devoted to her family and home, solitary and marked by the suicide of her brother Daniel, at the age of 18, Aloma says time and again that love disgusts her; but everything changes when she falls in love with Robert, a relative who has moved into her house. At the same time, all around her the family environment falls into a spiralling crisis that seems to have no end and will lead to loss of the family house in Sant Gervasi. Disillusioned, Aloma will have to use all her strength to move on.