Angélica Liddell is a name inextricably bound up with the avant-garde theatre. Since 1993, when she founded the Atra Bilis theatre in Madrid (‘altra bilis’ is Latin for the black bile that ancient medicine considered the cause of melancholy), the larger-than-life Spanish artist has remained a forceful presence on the avant-garde scene, writing, directing and acting in her own works. “A resisting citizen”, as she introduces herself, she is still inspired by the horrors of our era and has never stopped sharing her pain with others through her subversive plays and a poetry of words that does not pull its punches.

In Todo el cielo sobre la tierra (El síndrome de Wendy), she combines in her own inimitable way the story of Peter Pan, the boy who did not want to grow up, with the tale of death sown by the fanatical Anders Behring Breivik in Norway; Neverland with Utoya island, where the massacre took place; Wendy with the syndrome named after her, which describes a profound fear of abandonment and rejection, the moving waltz “of all the things I’ll do for you” in a monologue which can be likened (mutatis mutandis) to Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis.

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