'Besos Fumados' Premiere

Today the final countdown comes to an end, at 19.30h we'll premiere 'Besos Fumados' (Stoned Kissed) in ETSEIB inside the alternative section of Festival MUTIS VII.

There are several nerves, sweats and tears spread throughout the way, but everything seems that this will be a great premiere.

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What is 'Besos Fumados' about?

Chusa and her cousin Jaimito survive the last throes of Madrid's 'Movida' in a sadder and more mature city. Chusa is a cheerful artist who goes down to Morocco: she travels to the country, buys hashish occulting it in her intimate areas and then sells it in Lavapiés. Her cousin, Jaimito, is a tort artisan who makes and sells sandals in 'el Rastro,' and helps her to sell the drugs. Both cousins live with Alberto, Jaimito's best friend and Chusa's boyfriend, who's also an agent of the National Police.

One day, Chusa meets and takes home Elena, a high-class family young girl who has fled home and her mother. Elena wants to live Chusa's hippie life and, to do that, she will join Chusa in "going down to Morocco" in her following trip. Alberto and Jaimito disagree, but Chusa needs Elena to bring more drugs. The problem lies in Elena's virginity, so she can't become a drug mule. Given this situation, Chusa will look desperately for someone who takes her new friend's virginity off, though this will include her own boyfriend, the policeman.

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Thanks very much to all who came to this premiere and enjoyed with us on stage. It really made my hair stand to an end to see a filled theatre standing up, applauding all together, actually, it's one of the most gratifying as well as frightening things that someone can receive from audiences in this career. Congratulations to the rest of my mates, my strange dysfunctional family, you are such great artists, and you give it all on stage with me, I also want to acknowledge the big effort made by my fellow mate Sergi Delgado (Alberto) on stage, because today he has performed giving 39ºC on the thermometer and besides his fever, it didn't affect him at all. Things like this show me again that theatre is therapeutical, and it doesn't matter how you are or feel before the show, the stage makes you forget all your problems and fears.

Some pictures of the play's premiere