« SENDERO FORTÚN”: MARÍA FOLGUERA AND THEATER AS RESEARCH

Abstract

From November 2019 to March 2020 the Valle-Inclán Theatre in Madrid hosted «Sendero Fortún», a theatrical diptych integrated by Celia en la Revolución and Elena Fortún, aimed to recover and disseminate the figure of Encarnación Aragoneses –alias Elena Fortún– and her work. Through the text and direction of Elena Fortún, María Folguera uses the theatrical device as means to develop a research project that emanates from the revision of Elena Fortún’s public and private texts, postulating itself as a new source of study of the author and her context. This article analyzes the twofold results of Folguera’s work: on the one hand, the posing of a series of observations about the act of writing and female authorship; and on the other, how this necessarily relates to the creation of a collective memory of characters and places pivotal to the life and times of Fortún, among which the importance of the Lyceum Club and its environment stand out.