RNE premieres the sound fiction 'In Cold Blood'

Nancho Novo leads the cast of this work directed by Benigno Moreno, directed by Mayca Aguilera and script by Alfonso Latorre.

RNE Sound Fiction and the Montemadrid Foundation they premiered yesterday In cold blood, adaptation of the novel by Truman Capote. The actor Nancho Novo He joined the Spanish National Radio team as one of the protagonists.

In the early morning of November 15, 1959, two armed men, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, entered a farm on the outskirts of Holcomb, a small town in southwestern Kansas, and murdered the Clutter couple and their two youngest children. That tragic massacre attracted the attention of the journalist and writer Truman Capote, who went to the place with the aim of writing a report. His stay lasted for weeks, during which the idea of ​​narrating something larger, more detailed and deeper matured. Thus 'In Cold Blood' would be born, which would become his most celebrated work, a work where the limits of journalism and the novel were blurred to create the paradigm of a new literary movement.

Capote narrated the murder of the Clutter family, but at the same time he drew a devastating portrait of human psychology, American society and the remains of the American dream. The murderers, Dick and Perry, will never reach that ideal because their lives are outside of opulence, equal opportunities and the idyllic image that the system offers of itself.

The sound fiction recreates those sad events and the investigation that Capote carried out on his protagonists. A sound tour through the south of the United States and Mexico, a detailed panorama of America halfway between two decades. A job with direction of Benigno Moreno, realization of Mayca Aguilera y script by Alfonso Latorre.

The actor Nancho Novo has played one of the protagonists, Perry Smith. Juan Megías completes the duo of assassins as Dick Hickock and José Martret has given life to Truman Capote.

RNE Sound Fiction

In cold blood It joins the wide repertoire of RNE adaptations, which has touched almost all genres with works such as Sherlock Holmes: the sign of the four, Psycho, The Exorcist, Dracula, Brave New World, Strangers on a Train, Young Frankenstein, The Life of Brian, The Last Journey of Horace Two o Blade Runner.

Other famous literary works have also had their sound version or have inspired other fictions such as Treasure Island, Platero and I, Jekyll and Hyde, Artists' Café, Much ado about nothing o Of the substance with which dreams are woven.

In addition, RNE and RTVE.es make sound fictions linked to renowned TVE series, such as The Ministry of Time o I'm alive. And RNE participates in Playzcast, an experience that offers a new dimension of sound thanks to the binaural (surround) format.