Théâtre : Garbo
%AB Garbo %BB is a play about the art of lying, the power of the imagination, and the price one must pay to change history—but it is also a fable about doubt and the quest for recognition.
Madrid, 1940
Juan Pujol Garcia is anything but a hero. A failed chicken farmer and manager of a seedy hotel, this native of Barcelona has a knack for racking up professional failures. Yet in 1941, armed only with his boundless imagination and the help of his wife Araceli, he would achieve the impossible: convincing both the Nazi and British intelligence services that he was their best agent.
Under the code name “Garbo,” he orchestrated the greatest deception in military history: an entirely fictional spy network that deceived Hitler himself and ensured the success of the Normandy landings.
A play by Bruno Such