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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
More than being, they were. Survivors of a war that nobody remembers, in spite of their relentless yet futile attempt to win the battle against oblivion by magnifying those skirmishes, mere ephemera of no interest to anyone. From the final stage of their destinies, these Quixotes who seem to have been disinterred from the trenches of history, ask themselves: Would things have been different if we had been victorious in that long-forgotten war?
Was that the crucial battle or is the decisive one still ahead of us, the battle against death? The satire of power and faith as an act of resistance are the two poles that traverse these characters. Theirs is the desperate struggle for life itself, the battlefield, a tireless fight for the conquest of a destiny.
Zaranda’s three classically trained actors, its hard core, are the army in retreat from this long and arduous battle. Their recognisable language is their bedraggled flag in a world at war against the poetic meaning of existence. Skirmishes, desertions and fronts that open up in their own consciousness. The metaphor of a combat, the beauty of defeat and the triumph of those who never lose sight of the horizon, despite that defeat.
At a time when we have been defeated by pessimism, sadness and despair, La Batalla de los Ausentes raises the sword of light against those dark riders, in a hymn to human dignity and against all those who hide their horizon when the dawn breaks.
By: Eusebio Calonge
Directed by: Paco de La Zaranda
With: Gaspar Campuzano, Enrique Bustos y Francisco Sánchez
A production by La zaranda - Teatro inestable de ninguna parte
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