Mort de dama

Llorenç Villalonga

Theatre The adaptation of a contemporary classic of Catalan literature comes to the Sala Petita, in co-production with the Teatre Principal de Palma. Mort de dama was the first novel by Llorenç Villalonga (Palma de Mallorca, 1897-1980) and meant his entrance, through the front door, into the literary world. Written in 1931, it works as a splendid satire on Majorcan bourgeois society and covers the history, culture and society of the island while portraying the Majorcan School with pitiless cruelty. Dona Obdúlia Montcada, a lady of the Majorcan upper aristocracy, is about to die. Her suffering conceals a regionalist Majorca, which Villalonga brilliantly parodies in a series of archetypical characters who dispute the succulent inherence of the lady: Dona Maria Antònia, Baroness of Bearn; Remei Huguet; and Aina Cohen, a folkloric and rural poetess and the greedy and Sapphic author of the famous poem La camperola, a composition full of ingenuous grace. A magnificent review of Majorcan history and culture, written with a mastery and sarcasm that many on the island never forgave.