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November 28, 2021

Africa Moment'21

Living Arts International Gathering Africa Moment'21 celebrates this year its 5th edition in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, an unprecedented edition with a double itinerary, which presents proposals of great innovation and artistic quality by leading figures on the...

Edipo (A través de las llamas) ©Jesus Ugalde

Theater

September 29, 2021

Edipo (A través de las llamas)

Post-show talk

With author Paco Bezerra, director Luis Luque, actors Jonás Alonso, Mina El Hammani, Álvaro de Juan, Jiaying Li, Alejandro Linares, Andrés Picazo, Julia Rubio and Alejo Sauras and assistant director Álvaro Lizarrondo. Hosted by Lorena Berdún.

Kmedeus Africa Moment ©Edgar de Melo | 'Kmêdeus' en Mercat de les Flors, Africa Moment 2020

Africa Moment'21

Dance

November 27, 2021

Kmêdeus

by Antonio Tavares

On the island of São Vicente, in Cape Verde, a homeless person feels enigmatic mystical whispers. Some islanders consider him a lunatic, others an artist or a philosopher, but no one really knows the truth. They only know his name: Kmêdeus, which means "eat god."...

Africa moment - MÛ MBANA - 0 ©Joan Tomás

Africa Moment'21

Music

November 28, 2021

Mû Mbana

Mû Mbana is a composer and performer of multiple string instruments. A native of the island of Bolama, in Guinea-Bissau, he grew up influenced by the religious songs sung by the women of the Brame (Mancanha) and Bijagos (Bidjugu) ethnic groups. Multinstrumentalist...

A un endroit du debut Germaine Acogny ©Thomas Dorn

Africa Moment'21

Dance

November 25, 2021

À un Endroit du Début

by Germaine Acogny / Mikaël Serre

"A tree that has no roots cannot grow," recalls Germaine Acogny. This is how she tells herself: through the words of her father, the memory of her grandmother, this story rooted in Benin, where she was born, and in Senegal where she grew up, opens to all the lands of...

Uncles & Angles Still Broadway ©Nelisiwe Xaba & Mocke J van Veuren

Africa Moment'21

Dance

Living arts

November 26, 2021

Uncles & Angels

The central allusion of the piece is the 'reed dance', widely known in South Africa (and increasingly as an attraction for international tourists) as a colorful cultural celebration that aims to promote respect for young women and preserve the custom of girls remaining...

Africa Moment'21

Music

November 26, 2021

Daara J Family

Since their inception in Dakar in the 90s, Faada Freddy and Ndongo D have worked to create a bridge between their culture and the rest of the world. His engaging texts in Wolof, English or French have always conveyed the hope for a better world with unwavering optimism...

Taller Beatbox Africa Moment EMelo_AfricaMoments_2020_-6793

Africa Moment'21

Music

November 28, 2021

Beatbox workshop

with Ari Tavares

Born in Portugal, Ari Tavares started his music journey during his childhood in Cape Verde, where he specialised in beatbox and percussion. Drawn by samples and frecuencies, through his computer he found a way to produce all types of sounds, from afro jazz to funky...

Recital

November 17, 2021

Vano fantasma de niebla y luz

Poetic recital based on the works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

The pandemic made it impossible for 2020 to be the 'Bécquer Year' that the poet from Seville deserved. For obvious and inevitable reasons, cultural activities to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death ended up being rather lacklustre, when they didn’t have to be...

Theater

November 24, 2021

En tierra extraña

Post-show talk

With director Juan Carlos and actors Diana Navarro, Alejandro Vera and Avelino Piedad. Hosted by Lorena Berdún. Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol_madrid)

Dance

January 23, 2022

Galería

by José Maldonado

Galería is defined as a contemporary and multidisciplinary show in which three languages are combined: dance, which uses flamenco as an initial axis; plastic art, through an exhibition of pictorial work and the live creation of a new work; and audiovisual language, with...

Un cadavre exquis II ©Alejo Puerto @alejopuertok

Dance

January 30, 2022

Un cadavre exquis II

by Pau Aran

Un cadavre exquis II, a dance solo by Pau Aran is dedicated to encounters, to the direct link with our ancestors and to gratitude, in a subtle, shy and somewhat abstract way. Three gazes, three moments of life (past, present and future) mark our stories relentlessly and...

Conversando con Cecilia - Lídia Pujol. ©Marc Javierre Kohan

Music

February 13, 2022

Conversando con Cecilia

by Lídia Pujol

Cecilia's songs encourage us to shun intermediaries -whether they belong to the media, culture, politics, family or religion- in order to ask ourselves who we really are, what we think, and what our deepest desire is. When Lídia Pujol listened to some of those songs...

Theater

February 20, 2022

Un hombre de paso

by Felipe Vega

In the bar of the Roma Hotel, in the city of Turin, a journalist is talking to her newspaper’s editorial staff while she waits for two people to arrive for what is to be a really important interview. The first to appear from among the shadows is Primo Levi, a world...

De algún tiempo a esta parte... Fracaso? ©Manuel Fiestas

Theater

January 25, 2022

De algún tiempo a esta parte... Fracaso?

Post-show talk

With director Maite Pérez Astorga and actors María Pujalte and Ana Rujas. Hosted by Lorena Berdún. Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol_madrid)

Inma Cuevas Animales Mixtos ©Bentor Albelo

II Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

January 26, 2022

Inma Cuevas & Alarmantiks

Anïmales Mixtøs

"Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always dreamt about getting up on a stage and singing. I remember sneaking into the assembly hall at my school one break time. Everything was dark but I switched on the lights, grabbed a microphone and started singing to rows and...

II Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

February 2, 2022

Vicente Navarro

Anïmales Mixtøs

Vicente Navarro’s music flows between Spanish and Latin American folklore and urban and electronic music. In June 2019, Vicente released his first album, Casi Tierra, on the El Tragaluz label. It was nominated for best world music and fusion album at the MIN Awards and...

II Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

February 16, 2022

Leon Impala

Anïmales Mixtøs

Leon Impala, a name that refers back to the surnames of its founder members, emerged in Madrid in the winter of 2016 and is the musical project of actors Chema León and Diana Palazón. It wasn’t long before Queque Maroto and Ester Rodríguez joined the project. They...

II Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

February 9, 2022

Natalia Dicenta & Vicente Borland Trio

Anïmales Mixtøs

A FESTIVAL OF JAZZ, SOUL, R&B AND BOLEROS Thanks to the Anïmales Mixtøs series for getting the band back together again. For the past 20 years or more, we’ve played together in all manner of jazz clubs, concerts and jazz festivals whenever I’ve been able to get away...

II Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

March 2, 2022

Vicente Navarro

Anïmales Mixtøs

El mal de la montaña ©Jose Alberto Puertas

Theater

March 8, 2022

El mal de la montaña

Post-show talk

With directors and actors Francesco Carril and Fernando Delgado-Hierro and actors Ángela Boix y Luis Sorolla. Hosted by Lorena Berdún. Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol_madrid)

II Vividero

Theater

Family Theater

October 23

November 14, 2021

Vividero México

Cycle of Dramatized Readings

Fortuna y la máquina de lluvia (23 and 24 October) Author: Eleonora Luna Reyes Directed by: Cynthia Miranda With: Elisa Forcano, Adí Bar-Gera, Roberto Enríquez (voice over) and María Morales (voice over) This play tells the story of the emotional and vibrant journey of...

Theater

September 16, 2021

Despierta

Post-show talk

With author and actor Ana Rayo, director Natalia Menéndez and choreographer Mónica Runde. Hosted by Lorena Berdún.

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

July 17, 2021

Dancing With Frogs

by Sol Picó

A reflection, questioning and analysis of the masculine world; that other half, the biological complement of the feminine. What is masculinity without femininity? Are there boundaries between them? How does the 21st-century man live, feel, act, suffer, relate to the...

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...

Theater

April 24

May 16, 2021

La casa de los espíritus

by Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende wrote The House of the Spirits in 1982. In it, the author tells the story of the Trueba family over the course of four generations, a period spanning nearly a century, in a country undergoing enormous socio-political changes that culminate in a...

Theater

June 24

July 4, 2021

A nosotros nos daba igual

by Helena Tornero Brugués

First there were rumours. No one took them seriously, but you immediately felt goosebumps. Something old, learned from your parents. Others took it as a joke. Wrong. Many terrible things also seem like jokes at the beginning. But when the letters started to arrive, no...

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

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...

Museo de la Ficción Crédito Foto ©Rolex & Reto Albertalli

Living arts

June 13, 2021

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

June 18

July 25, 2021

De la mano

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...

Theater

27 MAY - 13 JUNE

El silencio de Elvis

Vicentín es un chico diagnosticado de esquizofrenia. Es muy alegre, le encanta cantar y bailar. Tiene el alma de Elvis en su interior. Su don es saber lo que la gente va a decir, su deseo, concursar en todos los realities de la tele. Su cruz, y la de su familia, Sufrir...

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...

Ciclo de actividades

Temporada 2020

La Sénior

The memory of our more senior actors

This is a time of memory and opportunity

We believe that the Teatro Español of Madrid is honour-bound to salvage the memory of our more senior actors. Several generations of actresses and actors whose talent and efforts have helped make our society more...

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...

Thirst for Theatre

Location