It’s 11 in the morning. A theater class ends at Cristina Rota’s school, in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid, and a dozen boys and girls dressed, in other words, in pure summer, troop out to relax in the patio. It’s nice to see them. Soon, the head of all this, Cristina Rota, arrives, carrying her daughter Nur, little sister of Juan Diego and María Botto, with whom Rota was pregnant when she arrived in Spain in 1978, after the disappearance of her husband, Diego Botto, on March 21, 1976, in the first days after the military coup in Argentina. Dressed in a flowing skirt, a sailor blazer and ultra-light sneakers, as fragile in appearance as she is strong in verb, Rota, who has raised generations of actors and actresses in this incubator of talent, from Penélope Cruz to Antonio de la Torre, including her own children, comes to talk to us about her book: A story of theater and resistancewhich collects some of the many lives he has lived at 81 years old.
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‘A STORY OF THEATER AND RESISTANCE’
Not even in the title of her autobiography did Cristina Rota (Buenos Aires, 81 years old) want to fail to name the two passions and vocations that have guided her life. From her childhood, marked by a cyclothymic father addicted to gambling, and a resistant mother, to her adolescence and youth, marked by political and artistic commitment, to the day that changed everything: March 21, 1976, when her husband, Diego Botto, did not call at 10 at night and never did so again, missing due to the repression of the Argentine dictatorship. Rota, exiled in Spain with her children María, Juan Diego and Nur, since 1978, has educated generations of actors and actresses who have learned the trade from and with her. He continues to go to school and teach every day.