El Faro de Mara Torres | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón | 15/12/2021

Under the pseudonym Glauca, the character in José Luis Sampedro's "The Old Mermaid," actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijón (Rome, 1968) shared an evening with Mara Torres at the Faro. Using the image of a girl stepping into a seaweed-covered sea "as if it were a soft carpet," the actress spoke about her intense relationship with the sea, the role model her father, a history teacher who eventually donated all his books to a public library in Madrid, has had for her, and her love of acting, "which continues to excite me so much that if I didn't do theater, I think I'd have to go bungee jumping." Aitana Sanchez-Gijón has turned the Faro into a place for conversation, laughter, and reminiscing (the summers of her adolescence, the housing development of her childhood, the cat she lost in Zahara de los Atunes...), where the silence while listening to the song "Io so che ti amerò" (I Love You) says much more than words. The actress said goodbye at the Trafalgar Lighthouse singing alone Desde mi libertad: "Since my freedom, I am strong because I am a volcano, they never taught me to fly, but I must take flight."