Due to an unexpected accident, one of the cleaning women who works at the RAE, with little training, becomes a consummate scholar of language and grammar. A renowned neuroscientist offers to subject the woman to a unique process of linguistic deprogramming. Will it be possible to unlearn what has never been learned?
Grammar is a satire that pays homage to our relationship with the legacy that, according to Lázaro Carreter, constitutes our most solid heritage: language. Can linguistic competence generate marginalization? Can the use of impeccable syntactic correctness be offensive to some?
Ernesto Caballero writes and directs this comedy, with touches of dystopian parable, about the limits of language and, therefore, of our world. An acid portrait of today’s Spain, reality TV fodder, which uncovers the impoverishment of our language and shoots with exquisite aim at some of its culprits. In the tradition of George Bernard Shaw, Caballero returns to authorship with this amusing “anti-Pygmalion” about a nobody-doe forced to follow the rules of grammar, as if it were a centuries-old curse, from Antonio de Nebrija to the present day.
