From Literature to Stage. Description of a Personal Creative Process Based on the Show «La mujer y el pelele» by Isabel Bayón Company

Abstract

Under the prism of the artistic research, this text intends to show the different stages, the creation processes, the connection and the justification between elements that may constitute the purpose of bringing a literary work to the stage; in this case, using flamenco as a scenic language. This contribution is a window where the ingredients that may be present within a creative process are shown. The approach is formed as a proposal for analysis, where it refers to how the process of creating a show was in terms of the justification and plot adaptation, the choreographic approach, the musical proposal and the stage direction.

This work contains a description of the elements that lead to and define the different paths which converge on every creation process. It is, therefore, the result of a personal analysis and observation process within a specific framework. It is intended to tell what elements were necessary and how they are marking and delimiting the different paths that converge on the path of creation. Thus, this study is based on a work based on the analysis and observation of a personal process, within a particular framework.

To do this, I have taken as a practical example the show La mujer y el pelele, the homonymous title of the novel by the French writer Pierre Louÿs, on which it is based. The adaptation of the novel takes place in a flamenco key, showing a particular model of the archetype, already mythemical, of the femme fatale. The show was premiered in 2004 by Isabel Bayón Company at the 13^th Seville Flamenco Biennial, with the theatrical adaptation of Antonio Álamo and under the stage direction of Pepa Gamboa.