El Malentendido, the International Hispanic Theatre Festival's Spanish-language version of Albert Camus's dipped-in-irony-titled play The Misunderstanding, opened last night at the Arsht Center.
El Malentendido tells the story of Pedro (Julio Rodriguez), a middle-aged man who decides to return home to his younger sister and widowed mother after having been living oversees for decades. He essentially abandoned them as a young man and so, much to the chagrin of his doting wife (Zaida Castellanos), packs a bag and flies to find them and maybe mend some fences.
Unbeknownst to Pedro, however, is the fact that his sister and mother are now making their living taking in lodgers and then rubbing them out for their cash and valuables.
As is typical of anything by Camus, the play is wrought with characters finding themselves in situations that philosophizes human plight as brought upon by absurd providence.
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