It’s Dangerous to Look Outside (Es peligroso asomarse al exterior)

A SOPHISTICATED, PSYCHOLOGICAL, HUMOROUS AND SENTIMENTAL COMEDY
Enrique Jardiel Poncela’s comedy is built on this guiding principle: “No one is what they are: everyone is what others see in them. Every human being is a mixture, and, like a chemical agent, this mixture reacts to external factors. Depending on his or her nature, qualities and personality, he or she is not the same for all other human beings”.

THE INVEROSIMILE
A woman falls in love with three men in three different places in the world in a short space of time. In three different places, three men fall in love with the same woman. Isabel, the main character in the play, doesn’t have three different personalities; and the three men, for their part, don’t have three totally different personalities, they simply adopt and take on the personality that Isabel “gives” to each of them, the one she “sees” in them. She is very clear about this: she insists that she “wasn’t pretending” when she changed when she was with Gerardo, Federico and Mariano, it was just that, without meaning to, she found herself being “the way they wanted me to be”.