The Axe

By: Antonio Morcillo Lopez

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Synopsis: Two peculiar mechanics in any garage of any town in Spain discover, in the car they are trying to fix, something that will change their humdrum lives and that will get out their darker side. Violence is increasingly present in our daily lives, in our workplace, in our relationships and especially in the media. Gradually serious events like a terrorist attack are becoming in our daily bread, which makes us more increasingly insensitive to them. The play aims to be a mirror in which the spectator looks and recognizes that dark side that none of us are willing to see: Really you would not be able to kill someone? Are we all so civil as not to cross the line that would make us terrorists? How much blame the media have all these? To what extent are we able to exercise this violence on ourselves?.