Four Hearts with Restraint and Reverse

The Play

Two couples of lovers and a postman. An impossible heritage, an isolated island and the formula of the eternal youth. eternal happiness, also? Inmortal love? maybe yes, maybe not or maybe the opposite. Because everything is possible in “Cuatro corazones con freno y marcha atrás”, one of the most popular and hilarious comedies of the genius Enrique Jardiel Poncela. In “Cuatro corazones con freno y marcha atrás” we find and explosive and philosophical script, here it is everything that really matters: love, truth, beauty, but also the pass of time, the loss of illusions, and death. But, over all of these, for Jardiel it is a chaotic adventure with no sense that makes you laugh, because laughing is a very serious thing.

The Author

Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1954)

Funny and bright, lover the unbelievable things, risky, popular comediant, vanguardism forerunner, the man of the brilliant brain and the fleeting poetry, Jardiel is the spanish Oscar Wilde. A man linked with Ionesco, with the Marx brothers and with the comedy from Hollywoods in the 30s. He is an essential in the History of the Theatre and the Spanish Literature.