The mythical 'Espies de veritat' arrive at the Beckett to try to save the world

Upon entering the room, one finds the authors and directors of Derecho a pataleta. La missió més trepidant de les Espies de veritat sitting on one side of the stage, as if it had nothing to do with them. They watch with little interest as the audience takes their seats, while they tell each other something, laugh, even get bored waiting. When everyone is in their place, Berta Prieto and Lola Rosales, alias Las Chatis de Montalbán, take the mic, monologue style, to tell the anecdote behind the title, with little to do with the play's plot, but which summarizes the spirit: have fun like they did on the drunken night when the police caught them and, after making a scene, an agent told them something like "everyone has the right to a tantrum."

Having explained the title, far from spoilers because, as they emphasize, they don't really know how to define what the play is about, Prieto and Rosales begin to direct, literally, the show, raising and lowering the stages, doing the voices that dictate orders to the characters and deciding, with a video game screen in between, what they have to do. The protagonists are the Espies de veritat that many remember seeing on K3, played by Belén Barenys (Alex), Natàlia Barrientos (Sam) and Paula Vicente Mascó (Clover). Converted into flesh-and-blood anime characters, the series' tics are exaggerated without complexes, taking the viewer where they want, without explaining much of the reasons, just making them laugh, even at themselves.

Rescuing the entire universe of Totally Spies!, with Jerry, Gladys, WOOHP, and the eternal rivalry with Mandy, Alex, Clover, and Sam find themselves trapped in the most difficult mission of their career, having to save the world from its irremediable end. Why lie, they're a bit reluctant to get serious and do it, and the random decisions made by the directors don't help either, with no very logical options but choosing the most absurd one. The play jumps between screens, allowing itself to go back and forth, playing everything for easy and extreme humor that doesn't know about political correctness, simply giving voice to those who don't take themselves too seriously but also don't care much about anything. They complain and joke about anything, from job insecurity and feminism to spiritual journeys, while singing Nochentera, working at a McDonald's, with the smell of a cigarette from the break reaching the audience, and eating a Vicio. They even dare to mock the snobs from Autodefensa (Filmin), played by the same Prieto and Barenys who are on stage, and the nepo babies.

No one comes out unscathed, not even the protagonists themselves, and it doesn't even matter how the mission to save the world is resolved, something everyone knows becomes impossible as time goes on, no matter how many gadgets are invented at WOOHP. Derecho a pataleta, until May 14 at the Beckett, is an opportunity to have a good time and laugh at everything, a concentrated letter in just over an hour so as not to become tiresome, with creators who have already given much to talk about in a career that has only just begun.