Meet the Hilarious Characters of the Artwork Play
Main Characters:
MARIANA: A girl who, considering her family, isn’t very rare. She’s dreamy and always wants to know everything. Very impulsive, she doesn’t think things through.
CLOTILDE: A woman who likes to laugh at people and make jokes about everything she sees or hears. She always says the first thing that comes to mind and, like Mariana, is very impulsive. She thinks everything around her is crazy, not realizing she’s the one causing it.
MICAELA: The most obsessive and insane of all, she has no objection to achieving her objectives by force. She’s the craziest in the house, though not always apparent, and is very suspicious, except with her two dogs and Abel.
FERNANDO: He’s very dreamy and unsure of himself, largely due to his girlfriend Mariana’s attitude. He has many obsessions and troubles in his head and never loses hope of achieving his objectives.
EZEQUIEL: A man without complexes, very sure of himself and living life to enjoy, not to worry. He underestimates things whenever he can and is very stubborn.
EDGARDO: He thinks the solution to all his problems lies in resignation, so he leaves the world lying in bed. He takes radical decisions but always thinks well before taking the plunge.
Supporting Characters:
LEONCIO: He’s amazed at such folly and easily scared. He scares easily but doesn’t abandon his commitment easily.
FERMÍN: With so much time serving in the madhouse, he’s catching some of the madness and easily insists on his purpose, despite any obstacle.
PRAXEDES: A very manic and talkative girl who, like Fermín, has absorbed some of the madness of the house where she works.
JULIA: She’s very traditional and indecisive, yet amorous. She gives importance to things that are important and attributes importance to things that don’t have it.
LUISOTE: He’s very smart and eager. He tries to show off to others to demonstrate what he knows.
Comical Situations in Artwork
In the play, we find numerous comic situations, such as:
- Senseless dialogues, like the interrogation of Leoncio by Edgardo, or Edgardo speaking on the radio.
- Conversations in which the theme is repeated many times, like refrains.
- Meaningless phrases that, in another context, make sense: “I was talking to a suitcase.” “Dogs are learning to speak to vent.” “Has trouble shooting?” “No, he gave me a pleasant feeling.”
- The speaker and he are incompatible.
- Various follies of each character, like Praxedes speaking to herself, or Fermín, who thinks he is going to end up “pudding head”, or Michelle, who believes that every Saturday afternoon thieves will steal from home.
- Attribution of importance to things that don’t have it (“and go traveling thieves who plays on”) and the downgrade if they have it (I’ve gone three years and now that back we met throughout the whole family).
There are many funny situations in this book, but it would be physically impossible to express them all, since the entire work itself is pure humor. I have summarized them into several groups, setting out some examples.