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December 17, 2020

January 24, 2021

Los asquerosos

by Jordi Galceran and Jaume Buixó. Based on the novel by Santiago Lorenzo

Manuel has injured a police officer and fled the scene, hiding out at his uncle's house. He doesn’t know the extent of the injury, but his uncle advises him to disappear: no matter how serious it is, they will find him and he will spend a long time in prison. Manuel’s...

Theater

Musical theatre

September 17

October 11, 2020

Fariña

by Jose L. Prieto and Nacho Carretero

Fariña does not let the members of the audience to get comfortable in their seats. A sizeable shipment arrives, followed by conversations between young people and townspeople discussing, buying, consuming and confidently handling the famous “Winston de batea”...

Theater

Musical theatre

September 24

October 3, 2020

As One

by Laura Kaminsky

As One is a chamber opera in which two voices, Hannah Before (baritone) and Hannah After (mezzo-soprano), share the role of a single transgender protagonist. Fifteen songs comprise the three-part narrative; with empathy and humour, they trace Hannah’s experiences from...

Theater

October 16

November 8, 2020

Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

One of the essential works of 20th-century Latin American literature; a story of stories where tenderness and violence are combined to condemn abuse of the oppressed and corruption. It is brought to the stage by a Catalan playwright. A simple man, Pedro Páramo, manages...

Dance

November 15, 2020

Instrucciones para mejorar la vida

by Carmen Werner

Given that sometimes there is no way to define situations in life, we enter a state of mental calm. Because if we don't believe in anything, we don’t come into conflict with anyone. We become sceptics, disagreeing with that which is generally accepted as true. We don’t...

Theater

December 10, 2020

January 17, 2021

El salto de Darwin

by Sergio Blanco

El salto de Darwin [Darwin’s Leap] warns us that the condition of humans as a species can revert to an animal state at any time. In road movies, the characters always leave their homes in search of a better world – a promised land – to build a better life. This is what...

Theater

January 27

February 7, 2021

Mariana Pineda

by Federico García Lorca

Sometimes love is a deep ocean where we die by drowning, a place that is simultaneously a prison and a horizon, a period where time stops and even the air is still. Sometimes love is a snowy summer... a chimera, a story we tell ourselves so we can stay alive. Mariana...

Theater

November 26, 2020

Galdós en el Español

Centennial of Benito Pérez Galdós

A group of your girls, like those of Almodóvar, “the Galdós girls”, have gotten together to pay tribute to you and thank you for giving them life. Isidora, hard-working and obliging. Electra, magnetic and revolutionary in spite of herself. Laura de la Cerda, ill and...

Theater

January 13

February 7, 2021

El caballero incierto

by Laila Ripoll, based on a character by Rosa Montero

Rosa Montero's excellent novel, La carne [The Flesh], contains a small hidden gem. It is the imaginary history of Josefina Aznárez, a formidable, passionate, magical character, one of those that appear very infrequently but stay with you forever. Josefina is a luckless...

Musical theatre

Family Theater

December 27, 2020

Beethoven #ParaElisa

by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa

Teresa Malfatti, Ludwig van Beethoven’s platonic love, asks the Viennese genius to compose a piano piece dedicated to a young prodigy who has just arrived in the city: Elisabet Barensfeld, who she affectionately calls “Elisa”. Teresa Malfatti confesses to Beethoven that...

Theater

Musical theatre

February 18

March 7, 2021

Tórtola

by Begoña Tena

A photograph, La danza de la serpiente [The Snake Dance], sparked my curiosity. Then I went looking in archives and newspaper files. I teased out the verses dedicated to her. I listened to the music she danced to. I visited her costumes, her residence, her letters...

Theater

February 28, 2021

Siveria

by Francisco Javier Suárez Lema

On 23 July 2019, the well-known activist Yelena Grigoryeva was assassinated in St. Petersburg. In the years leading up to her assassination, Yelena had dedicated herself to defending the rights of the Russian LGBTI population. Grigoryeva, 41, had reported that she had...

Theater

February 24

March 28, 2021

¡Nápoles millonaria!

by Eduardo de Filippo

The great Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben says that Neapolitans are experts on holding broken things together; on keeping a broken family, neighbourhood, community, country, or continent together. Eduardo de Filippo tells us about this and more in a work written and...

La señorita Doña Margarita ©Susana Martin

Theater

March 28, 2021

La señorita Doña Margarita

by Roberto Athayde

“El buey solo bien se lame” [roughly, in this context “An unyoked ox can look after itself”], especially in the company of other oxen. We like to start introducing the play La señorita Doña Margarita this way because, aside from anything else, it certainly is humorous...

Theater

May 19

June 13, 2021

Levante

by Carmen Losa

Levante [The East] is a play that speaks of places, of people, of our history, of passions, of struggles, of hopes. Levante speaks of sentiments and sensations. Levante is an inconceivable love story in an impossible time. In Levante, the image of the daughters of...

Theater

June 18

July 11, 2021

Siempre Chéjov

by Anton Chéjov

The genius of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is as precocious as these short pieces written before he turned thirty. None of his major plays had yet been staged, nor had he been recognized as the most distinguished short story writer of all time, as he would be later...

Theater

February 28, 2021

Siempreviva

based on 'Love-Lies-Bleeding', by Don DeLillo

Born in the Bronx into an Italian Catholic family, Don DeLillo (1936) is one of the United States’ most important living novelists. A confessed admirer of Norman Mailer, Franz Kafka and Thomas Bernhard, from them he drew his style, the psychological analysis of the...

Theater

Musical theatre

January 19

February 14, 2021

Marat ~ Sade

by Peter Weiss

Marat ~ Sade is the abbreviated title of one of the crowning works of 20th-century European theatre. For a few weeks, the Sala Fernando Arrabal of the Naves del Teatro Español will become a huge mental health centre where a group of patients/actors act out scenes set in...

Theater

March 21, 2021

Raphaëlle

by Raphaëlle Pérez, Carles F. Giua and Eugenio Szwarcer

Is the division into genders a cultural construct? What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man? In this last piece in the trilogy on women, identity and history, we have focused on the life path of a young transgender woman, Raphaëlle Pérez. The...

Theater

March 13

April 11, 2021

Prostitución

by Albert Boronat and Andrés Lima

Our show is based on a process of exploring prostitution. An issue that makes us ask ourselves many questions, on different levels, regarding our vision as citizens, as human beings and as artists with the desire to reflect our society. And we will do this by giving a...

Theater

March 25

May 2, 2021

Antígona

by David Gaitán

Discussing democracy, identifying its problems, has been a topic of guaranteed relevance for centuries. Nonetheless, as theatre must necessarily speak to the audience in attendance, it is not enough to assume that a topic will fit into the immediate socio-political...

Theater

April 22

May 23, 2021

Las dos en punto

by Esther F. Carrodeguas

Poetic justice at two o’clock sharp Las dos en punto [Two O’clock Sharp] is an exercise in poetic justice that takes its place beside many others that little by little have shed light on the life of the renowned Marías of Santiago de Compostela. It is high time they...

Theater

May 29

June 5, 2021

Tránsito

Chamber opera based on the work of the same name by Max Aub

At a time when many Spanish republican ex-combatants and exiles still held out hope that the allied armies of World War II would put an end to the Franco regime, Max Aub anticipated the total stoppage of time to which history would condemn all of them in a labyrinth of...

Theater

October 9

November 8, 2020

Las criadas

by Jean Genet

Sisters Claire and Solange Lemercier are maids in the employ of a lady member of the French high bourgeoisie. Every night they begin a perverse ceremony, a ritual in which reality and fiction merge in a deadly game of switched identities. Claire is the lady and Solange...

Theater

December 27, 2020

J'attendrai

by José Ramón Fernández

A 90-year-old Republican who survived Mauthausen closes a chapter in his life that has tormented him for many years. And he does so shortly before his death, when he visits a small rural hotel where someone lives to whom he still owes a moral debt: the granddaughter of...

Platform

Theater

June 6, 2021

La rueda

by Irene Poveda

We let ourselves be dragged round this wheel without protesting, without taking any risks, without deviating from what has been previously established, from sanity, from what is morally acceptable... Increasingly faster, increasingly in a hurry. And we don't question it...

La plaga ©Daniel Garrido e Isaías Sadaña

Platform

Theater

May 30, 2021

La plaga

by Chiqui Carabante

Lice plague a state subsidised private school, one of those schools you can see from any ring road as you drive by. A biblical plague that has the teachers in a panic, mothers discussing stuff and nonsense as if their lives depended on it, and a school in chaos as the...

Theater

September 8

October 4, 2020

Contarlo para no olvidar

by Mónica G. Prieto and Maruja Torres

Reporters Maruja Torres (Barcelona, 1943) and Mónica García Prieto (Badajoz, 1974) discuss journalism, feminism and social transformation in a conversation published by Revista 5W as part of its collection ‘Voces de libros-diálogo’ [Book voices-dialogue] in 2017. Mónica...

Dance

November 14, 2020

Juana Inés

by Carmen Cortés

“If I raise my voice, it is because I can no longer endure it. Of what envy am I not the target? Of what evil intention am I not the object? There is no gift that suffers more attacks than Understanding.” Cornered by her enemies, Sister Juana rebels in this theatrical...

Theater

April 1

May 2, 2021

#PuertasAbiertas

by Emma Riverola

Among other things, theatre should stir up feelings and generate debate. The story we are going to tell is charged with tension and, as a result, with emotion. And it also includes some breath-taking plot twists. Puertas abiertas [Open Doors] talks about one of the...

En palabras de Jo... Mujercitas ©Esmeralda Martín

Theater

October 10

November 8, 2020

En palabras de Jo... Mujercitas

version by Lola Blasco

En palabras de Jo... Mujercitas [In Jo’s Words… Little Women] narrates the writing process of the celebrated work by Louisa May Alcott that has so profoundly influenced different women in subsequent generations. Thus, drawing from the writer’s other works (also her...

Theater

October 8

November 1, 2020

Ambiente familiar (Mínimo 2 noches)

by Aitana Galán and Jesús Gómez Gutiérrez

Anita, a young tourist from Northern Europe, stays for a few days in a room she has rented in a private residence using a well-known internet platform. The events in her hosts’ lives thus become part of the happy, carefree days of her holiday. This is the starting point...

Dance

17 - 19 SEPTEMBER

A DOSE OF PARADISE

Sharon Fridman

A Dose of Paradise is Sharon Fridman’s latest creation, an exploration of love and relationships, in which she develops a dialogue with new technologies in search of emotional spaces, thanks to the collaboration of international artists from Belgium and Israel. This...

Theater

Musical theatre

4 SEPTEMBER - 4 OCTOBER

AND IT WAS ALL GOING SO WELL (ESTEBAN’S HARDWARE STORE)

Theatre Nueve de Nueve

Esteban and Marigel run a hardware store. Esteban and Marigel are in love. Esteban and Marigel are happy and don't ask each other all that many questions. Everything is going well. It’s just them, Esteban and Marigel; period. But one day the theatre comes to town and...

Café Teatro

October 14

December 2, 2020

Sufrida Calo

by Elena Lombao

A musical show of emotional actuality set to a background of rural surrealism. SUFRIDA CALO was born out of the need to express the pains of an infinite bosom, mine. Against all the odds, 2013 was so full of unexpected events that it led to the birth of this character...

Theater

9 OCTOBER - 8 NOVEMBER

THE MAIDS

By Jean Genet

Living arts

8 - 13 JUNE

Museum of fiction I. EMPIRE

Video installation performance art piece by Matías Umpierrez

In her work, artist Matías Umpierrez explores the contemporary modalities of the links between the spectator and fiction. Within this framework, her projects cross the borders that exist between the performing and the visual arts and cinema, activating a public-stage...

Theater

5 - 23 MAY

LOVE, LOVE, CATASTROPHE. Pedro Salinas between two women

Estival Producciones

In 1979, the Houghton Library at Harvard University received a mysterious donation: a package labelled “Letters from Pedro Salinas to Katherine Whitmore”. It contains an instruction that it should not be opened until twenty years have gone by. When the time comes, along...

Theater

March 31

April 18, 2021

Ira

By Julián Ortega

In the middle of the night, Dolores calls her son Salvador to ask him to come home to see her; she has something urgent to tell him. Salvador, who is going to be promoted the next day, is in no mood to be distracted. However, what his mother is about to tell them will...

Teatro de la mano

Living arts

22 JUNE - 25 JULY

BY HAND

Installation. Teatro de la Mano Project

The Naves del Español in Matadero voyage to the interiors of the theatrical world with the Teatro de la Mano project, which aims to give value and show the public the technical and artisan work of the theatre. This project begins with a sensory installation that seeks...

Ciclo de actividades

WEDNESDAY FROM JANUARY 13 TO FEBRUARY 17

Anïmales Mixtøs

1st Festival of Music performed by actors and actresses

For years now, the most popular singers have made the leap to the cinema and the theatre and the same is true of actors, they move on to music, participate as singers, create their bands with other players, etc. In every age, artists from one side or the other of the...

Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

March 31, 2021

RAQUEL PÉREZ. ANÏMALES MIXTØS CONCERT

1st Festival of Music performed by actors and actresses

Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

20 JANUARY

ELZURDO. ANÏMALES MIXTØS CONCERT

1st Festival of Music performed by actors and actresses

ElZurdo plays Spanish, or rather, Mediterranean music. Songs that focus on the streets, their people and their nationalities, with love as the background colour. Rumba, Latin rhythms, tango or pop are eclectically fused into the songs. Through these rhythms, they give...

Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

3 FEBRUARY

CRISTINA & LOS GLORIA. ANÏMALES MIXTØS CONCERT

1st Festival of Music performed by actors and actresses

Ladies and Germanies, I’m Cristina Medina, the charismatic leader no less of the band Cristina & Los Gloria…A band that plays rock, pop, pank, punk, tuna sandwiches and all glory to you… I’ve been on stage since 1992, (not always the same one, I get around), and I’ve...

Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

7 APRIL

FRAN PEREA. ANÏMALES MIXTØS CONCERT

1st Festival of Music performed by actors and actresses

In his concerts, Fran Perea revisits some of the big hits from his albums 'La Chica de la Habitación de al Lado' (The Girl Next Door) and ‘Punto y Aparte’ (Full Stop, New Paragraph), some in new versions that bring them closer to his true style, as well as songs from...

Ciclo de actividades

19 MAY TO 14 JUNE

Platform

Promotion of and diffusion for emerging creators

The Platform Project is a series that presents small-format stage works that have stood out for their artistic proposals within the independent fringe scene in the city of Madrid.

In these post-crisis times, when there was a genuine explosion in creativity, but when...

Ciclo de actividades

30 MAY TO 28 JUNE

Vividero

Multidisciplinary family space

We already know that the arts are beneficial to human beings and that children grow best if they develop artistic activities. That is why we believe there is a need to create a project where boys and girls and their families are the protagonists.

Every day there is...

Galdós Sombra y realidad ©Esmeralda Martin

Theater

November 18

December 13, 2020

Galdós: sombra y realidad

by Ignacio del Moral and Verónica Fernández

In the words of Oscar Wilde, “all works are a form of autobiography”. Over the years, I have become increasingly interested in the person behind the verses or brushstrokes, and it never fails: I find Wilde’s statement truer and truer. Delving into the life of Benito...

Theater

December 5, 2020

January 3, 2021

El beso

by Ger Thijs

A mountain landscape. The Netherlands. In Europe. Two people walk up a path. A man, a woman, nature. She is on the way to pick up test results at the regional hospital. He, supposedly, is taking a stroll to find inspiration. The two walk along without knowing that they...

Theater

March 14, 2021

Curva España

by Chévere

Over the last few years, Chévere, winner of the 2014 National Theatre Award, has created a series of works that have explored the possibilities of Documentary Theatre and collective memory as triggers of theatrical fiction (Citizen, Eurozone, Eroski Paraíso). In this...

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