This monologue, performed by Jesús Torres, has been awarded the Premio Teatro 2019 Autor Exprés por Fundación SGAE, a Finalist for the 2021 Max Awards and the 2020 Nazario Award by the Southern European Festival “Cultura con Orgullo”.
Puños de harina is a work that reflects on racism, homophobia, violence and masculinity. It presents two stories in which we will meet, in parallel, two characters related to the world of boxing and gypsy culture: on the one hand, the true story of Rukeli, the German and gypsy boxer who challenged Hitler himself during the time of Nazi Germany and, on the other, Saúl, a young gypsy who, in rural Spain in the 1980s, searches for his identity and confronts his family.
Puños de harina is the story of how Rukeli, Saúl and other gypsies fought, resisted, died and survived the Holocaust and society, but it is also the story of how some men strive to fit into the ideal concept of “being real men” in a context that rejects them for their race, culture or sexual orientation. Language: Spanish. Recommended age: over 12 years old.
