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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.

Ciclo de actividades

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...

II La Sénior

Installation

December 1, 2021

July 31, 2022

Las cosas de mis abuelos

Artistic installation in Pepe Show

LAS COSAS DE MIS ABUELOS A glimpse inside the Teatro Español by the theatre team Following on from our previous exhibition, Alegría , which owes its existence to the ideas, words and hands of the entire team at the Teatro Español and the Naves del Español at Matadero...

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...

II La Sénior

Exhibitions

December 17, 2021

July 3, 2022

Verano, te quiero

By and large, we associate the summertime with good humour, holidays, fun and games, high temperatures... And, above all, with life in the great outdoors, which draws people to the pleasures of the beach, the mountains, the parks... We are reminded of the Swedish...

Theater

December 21, 2021

La infamia

Post-show talk

With author Lydia Cacho , director José Martret and actor Marina Salas . Hosted by Lorena Berdún . Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol_madrid)

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...

Family Theater

April 27, 2022

II 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 more...

II Anïmales Mixtøs

Music

March 2, 2022

Vicente Navarro

Anïmales Mixtøs

Noche de Reyes Foto de equipo ©José Alberto Puertas

Theater

February 22, 2022

Noche de reyes

Post-show talk

With adaptator Álvaro Tato , director and adaptator Helena Pimenta and actors Haizea Baiges, Carmen del ValleJosé Tomé, Rafa Castejón, Patxi Pérez, Sacha Tomé, Victoria Salvador and David Soto Giganto. Hosted by Espido Freire . Post-show talk will be broadcasted online...

Theater

Dramatic reading

April 22

May 1, 2022

Lecturas alemanas

Cycle of Dramatized Readings

22 April: Apeirón Author: Anja Hilling Directed by: Pilar Valenciano With: Joaquín Notario, Jaime Soler, Ana Caleya and Víctor Palmero Recomended age: +16 years 24 April: La polla de oro Author: Rebekka Kricheldorf Directed by: Celia Morán With: Ana Caleya, Juan Carlos...

II Plataforma

Theater

May 29, 2022

8,56

by Julio Béjar

This is the story of a boy who had to travel two hours by bus and then walk three kilometres on foot every day just to get to the stadium to train. He jumped from Avilés to the world podium with a score that was impossible for a white man, a historic leap of 8.56 metres...

II Plataforma

Theater

May 8, 2022

A muerte

by Hermanas Gestring

To the Death as a rallying cry. To the Death as a way of life. That’s how we believe a play should be, that’s how it should be performed: to the death. We carry the irony of humanity in our veins, we are daughters of the 21st century, we are the result of all the crap...

I Come to You River Ophelia Fractured ©Kazimierz ździebło

II Plataforma

Theater

May 15, 2022

I Come to You River: Ophelia Fractured

by Studio Kokyu

In I Come to You River: Ophelia Fractured we re-tell the story of Ophelia, giving her the voice of modern young women who search for the meaning behind this ‘romantic’ figure. We cast the light on her, making it fracture and reveal what is normally hidden in the shadows...

II Plataforma

Theater

May 22, 2022

Dolores, con las alas del amor salté la tapia

by Selu Nieto

Summer of 2024. The political-social-economic-cultural panorama we find ourselves in is asphyxiating. Dreams? Unattainable. No one has managed to become what they really wanted to become. Vocation is a thing of the past, especially for anyone involved in theatre. Anyone...

II Plataforma

Theater

May 31

June 5, 2022

Il nostro amore schifo

by Maniaci d'amore

An irreverent investigation, as well as a corrosive satire, on the intricate sentiment of youth, dissected and torn to pieces by two children of our time, naive and ruthless. Only five chairs and a table on stage. It is on the table that everything is consumed. It is...

II Plataforma

Theater

June 12, 2022

Ser

Collective creation by Tabula Rasa

Is life a constant reworking of what we always thought it should have been? Is fatherhood a way to make amends for one’s childhood? What will a child inherit from its parents? Their dependencies? Their submissions? Perhaps a project to reform and improve education can...

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)

Erresuma-Kingdom-Reino CAST ©E.MorenoEsquibelTeatro Arriaga

Theater

March 22, 2022

Erresuma / Kingdom / Reino

Post-show talk

With actors Eneko Sagardoy, Miren Gaztañaga, Mitxel Santamarina and Koldo Olabarri . Hosted by Lorena Berdún . Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol_madrid)

Theater

March 31, 2022

Oceanía

Post-show talk

With actor Carlos Hipólito , director José Luis Arellano and co-author José Luis Collado . Hosted by Lorena Berdún . Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol_madrid)

II Plataforma

Theater

June 23, 2022

II Marathon Platform

European meeting of programmers

Marathon Platform aspires to be a new space for dialogue that will provide an international showcase for the independent theatre scene in Spain. The vast majority of the selected projects originate in Madrid’s fringe theatre circuit, small-format stage plays that have...

Theater

April 20, 2022

La bella Dorotea

Post-show talk

With director Amelia Ochandiano and actors Manuela Velasco, Raúl Fernández de Pablo, Rocío Marín, César Camino, Mariona Terés, María José Hipólito and Belén Ponce de León . Hosted by Lorena Berdún. Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol...

Theater

May 25

June 4, 2022

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

May 27

June 3, 2022

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

May 10, 2022

Animal negro tristeza

Post-show talk

With director Julio Manrique and actors Mireia Aixalà, Joan Amargós, Màrcia Cisteró, Norbert Martínez, Jordi Oriol, Mima Riera, David Vert and Ernest Villegas . Hosted by Espido Freire . Post-show talk will be broadcasted online on Instagram (@teatroespanol_madrid)

Theater

September 8

October 9, 2022

La noria invisible

by José Troncoso

The invisible wheel moves everything, it moves us all, especially when we are teenagers. We turn the spotlight on isolated characters who nevertheless generate considerable empathy with the audience due to their great capacity to suffer common and familiar evils. We...

Theater

September 15

November 6, 2022

Queen Lear

by Juan Carlos Rubio in collaboration with Natalia Menéndez based on Shakespeare's play

What differentiates a king from a queen? Why use the past to discuss complacency and arrogance? Does the exercise of power from the patriarchal model lead to violence or does it seek peace? Is there perhaps a hidden desire to talk about an education that is still...

Theater

October 14

November 13, 2022

El encanto de una hora

by Jacinto Benavente

Two porcelain figures come back to life for one night. Two fragile and forgotten bodies in a room where nothing happens but time itself, where life goes on all around them, yet their lot is merely to be impassive spectators. In the Spain of 1892, El encanto de una hora...

II La Sénior

Theater

November 17, 2022

January 8, 2023

París 1940

by Louis Jouvet

París 1940 In these times we live in, when society is increasingly forgetful of its history and, thanks to big data, big pharma and big finances, seems to consider tweets or fake news as an example and maximum value of the hyper-mediatic, instant and massive triumph...

Music

September 18, 2022

Género imposible

by Sílvia Pérez Cruz

Dance, theatre, film... These disciplines have crossed the path of this singer more than once during her career. And they do so once more in a creative laboratory run by artists from different backgrounds that is a celebration of interdisciplinarity. Throughout her...

Theater

September 7

October 23, 2022

La voluntad de creer

by Pablo Messiez

In the transcript of the trial of Joan of Arc, when asked how she knew that the voice she heard was that of Saint Michael, she replies: “−Because he had the voice of an angel. −How do you know it was the voice of an angel? −Because I had the will to believe it.” Ever...

La luna en un cazo - La petita malumaluga ©David Ruano

Theater

Family Theater

September 11, 2022

La luna en un cazo

by La petita malumaluga

Live music, dance, theatre and technology come together in this delicate and yet intense proposal. La luna en un cazo (un espectáculo incomprendido) is a trip through the deepest emotional corners of a moon in constant search for its essence. Happiness as an...

II La Sénior

Theater

September 29

October 23, 2022

Celebración

by Álvaro Lizarrondo and Luis Luque

Celebración is a play in documentary theatre format and the first stage project in the La Senior series of events: In this performance we will hear and see our protagonists -actors and actresses over the age of seventy- recount their experiences in the world of theatre...