{"id":30792,"date":"2026-03-02T08:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/projects\/la-extincion-de-los-dinosaurios-texto-teatral\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:11:11","slug":"la-extincion-de-los-dinosaurios-texto-teatral","status":"publish","type":"articulo","link":"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/en\/projects\/la-extincion-de-los-dinosaurios-texto-teatral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extinction of the Dinosaurs (La extinci\u00f3n de los dinosaurios) (play)"},"template":"","art_tag":[1344,1042,826,1314,1378,1152,1180],"genero":[49],"licencia":[],"localizacion":[],"produccion":[],"subgenero":[],"tipo":[5],"class_list":["post-30792","articulo","type-articulo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","art_tag-black-mood","art_tag-business","art_tag-class-difference","art_tag-crime","art_tag-social-en","art_tag-society","art_tag-treason","genero-dramedy","tipo-proyecto"],"acf":{"generos_tax":[49],"subgeneros_tax":false,"tipo_tax":[5],"tags_tax":[1314,826,1344,1042,1378,1152,1180],"produccion_tax":false,"licencia_tax":false,"localizacion_tax":false,"articulo__titulo_extendido":"","articulo__extracto":"","articulo__contenido":"<b><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">A struggling cleaner is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: an executive promotion in exchange for killing his boss\u2019s mother. Driven by an overdrawn bank account, he accepts. But after committing the crime, he discovers that the system does not reward loyalty\u2014it only exploits those willing to get their hands dirty.<\/span><\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n<b><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">A thirty-five-year-old cleaner, burdened with a mortgage, a work uniform, and a miserable salary, works at a real estate agency that turns cramped rooms into \u201ccharming lofts.\u201d One day, he is summoned to the CEO\u2019s office. There, over cognac, motivational clich\u00e9s, and corporate humiliation, the boss tells him he cleans toilets because he lacks character\u2014but hints that he might have a future in the company.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">At home, his wife reviews unpaid bills like autopsy reports and reminds him they cannot go on like this. When he mentions the possibility of a promotion and she announces an unexpected pregnancy, the couple sees\u2014for the first time\u2014a way out of their misery.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">That way out comes with a condition: the CEO wants him to kill his own mother. The elderly woman is sick and extremely wealthy; he needs his inheritance to cover the company\u2019s financial holes and keep selling apartments as if nothing were wrong. In exchange, he promises the cleaner a deputy directorship, an executive salary, and a brand-new life.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Tired of barely surviving, the wife runs the numbers and concludes the deal makes sense. They need to stop counting coins; the boss needs liquidity; and his mother, after all, has lived her life. The cleaner accepts and\u2014accompanied by his alter ego, a conscience that shows up late and unhelpful\u2014breaks into the house and suffocates the old woman, trying to think about the nursery for his future child.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">The promotion comes quickly. A new suit, visits to luxury apartments, plans for the future. They begin playing upper-middle class: house hunting, discussing schools, behaving as if they finally belong to the world they used to clean.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Until the CEO reveals his real plan: the company is bankrupt. There has been embezzlement, and it will shut down. He will take whatever money remains and flee the country before Monday, using the weekend to prevent employees and suppliers from reacting in time.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">The protagonist\u2014who has just killed for the company\u2014realizes he is about to be left with nothing. He tries to negotiate, speaking of his unborn child and his mortgage, but his boss only thinks of airports and offshore accounts.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Desperate, in the nearly empty apartment he has just bought with his wife, he hangs a rope from a beam in the living room and lets himself drop. He begins to suffocate, kicking for the chair that has fallen aside. At that moment, the real estate agent\u2014who has a spare key and occasionally hides there when his wife throws him out\u2014walks in. Without drama, he nudges the chair back under him with his foot. The protagonist steadies himself, removes the rope, and downplays the suicide attempt.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">The scene devolves into an absurd conversation about life insurance policies, commissions, and whether\u2014or not\u2014it\u2019s convenient to commit suicide in a newly purchased property.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">The play ends without redemption or poetic justice. The protagonist does not die\u2014but neither does he rebel. He accepts defeat and adopts the same corporate language that destroyed him. A ferocious black comedy about precarity, ambition, and a system that turns ordinary people into commodities.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\">RELEVANT INFORMATION:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Francisco Nortes is a Spanish actor, playwright, and stage creator whose career spans theater, film, and television. He gained public recognition for his roles in television series and stage productions. His work has earned him the <b>Premio Berlanga for Best Actor<\/b> and a nomination for the <b>Premios de la Uni\u00f3n de Actores <\/b>in the category of Best Breakthrough Actor.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">In parallel with his acting career, Nortes has developed a trajectory as a playwright. 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