Going to the theatre is always a good plan, but it is even more so when it is cold outside and we feel the need to do something outside the house. This season there are many theatre premieres that we can enjoy in our cities. five dramatic works The dates we have chosen are just a small sample of them. Check out the venues they will be visiting; we have listed the dates up to the end of the year, but their respective tours will extend beyond those dates.
La Golondrina
“What makes us human? Of all that we are and do, what do you think truly defines our humanity?” For Amelia, a mother wounded deep in her soul, the answer lies in pain. What truly makes us human is the ability to feel the pain of others as our own. That is what sets us apart from the beasts, she says. And that is the feeling that runs down Amelia’s spine. La Golondrina, the latest text by Guillem Clua directly inspired by the terrorist attack from the Pulse bar in Orlando (USA) in June 2016.
The play brings together two characters, Amelia and Ramón. The first, a severe singing teacher, welcomes Ramón into her home, who wishes to improve his vocal technique to sing at the memorial service for his recently deceased mother. The chosen song has a special meaning for him and, apparently, for the woman as well, who, despite her initial reluctance, agrees to help the young student. As the class progresses, the two characters reveal details of their past, deeply marked by an Islamist terrorist attack that the city suffered the previous year. The real meaning of that attack, the terrorist's motivations and the long shadow of his victims provoke a confrontation between Amelia and Ramón that leads them to discover the truth about those terrible events. This truth forces them to reflect on their own identities, the acceptance of loss and the fragility of love, stripping themselves bare to such an extent that their destinies will be forever united in a common song to life.
Author Guillem Clua
Address: Josep Maria Mestres
Actors: Carmen Maura, Felix Gómez
Dates:
- From 26/10/2018 to 27/10/2018 - Teatro Principal - Alicante / Alacant
- From 31/10/2018 to 04/11/2018 - Olympia Theater - Valencia
- 10/11/2018 - Chapí Theater - Villena (Alicante / Alacant)
- From 30/11/2018 to 01/12/2018 - Principal Theater - Zaragoza
- 06/12/2018 - Breton Theater of the Herreros - Logroño
Dollhouse 2
It begins with a knock on the door, the same door Nora slammed 15 years ago just before the curtain fell. And it is now a contemporary author who takes over from Ibsen and develops the action, exploring the resulting emotional chaos by Nora's homecoming.
After leaving her home, her husband, her children and her nanny, the protagonist has become a successful feminist writerThe reason for her return is to formalize the divorce papers, for which she needs the signature of her ex-husband, Torvald. During the course of the play, Nora will be questioned about her actions and the time she has been missing (even to the point of being presumed dead), as well as reprimanded for the consequences of her escape, expressed from each of the characters' points of view.
Author Lucas Hnath
Company: Goblin Productions
Address: Andrés Lima
Actors: Aitana Sánchez-Gijon, Roberto Enriquez, Maria Isabel Diaz, Camila Viyuela
Dates:
- 20/10/2018 - Jovellanos Theater - Gijón
- 27/10/2018 – Romea Theatre – Murcia
- 09/11/2018 - Villamarta Theater - Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz)
- From 16/11/2018 to 19/11/2018 - Liceo Theater - Salamanca
- 24/11/2018 - Pedro Muñoz Seca Municipal Theater - El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz)
- 01/12/2018 - Gaztambide Theater - Tudela (Navarra)
- 15/12/2018 - Basauri Social Theater - Basauri (Bizkaia)
La Strada
Poetry and misery come together in this work that reflects the Postwar Italy. It all begins when a naive and calm girl is sold by her mother to a bully and violent circus strongman to help her in her traveling show. Along the way, a hint of love arises between them, which fails to emerge because of his pride and her shyness.
They both share a deep loneliness and a life of marginalization, uprooting and misery, until they meet El loco, another circus artist, who will provoke Zampanó's jealousy and a tragic outcome.
Author Federico Fellini
Address: Mario Gas
Actors: Alfonso Lara, Veronica Echegui, Alberto Iglesias
Dates:
- 27/10/2018 - Paco Rabal Cultural Center - Palomeras Bajas (Madrid)
- 10/11/2018 - Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Center - Avilés (Asturias)
- From 22/11/2018 to 30/11/2018 - La Abadía Theater - Madrid
- From 09/05/2019 to 12/05/2019 - Arriaga Theater - Bilbao
The blame
Guilt counts story of a psychiatrist that he is called to testify in favor of a patient of his accused of committing an authentic massacre. His refusal triggers an earthquake in his professional and personal life, questioning his ethics and causing a conflict with the person he loves the most.
Author David Mamet
Address: Juan Carlos Rubio
Actors: Pepon Nieto, Magüi Mira, Ana Fernández, Miguel Hermoso
Dates:
- 30/11/2018 - Palacio Valdés Theater - Avilés (Asturias)
- 01/12/2018 - Serantes Kultur Aretoa - Santurtzi (Bizkaia)
- 07/12/2018 - Where: Municipal House of Culture - Sagunto / Sagunt (Valencia)
- 08/12/2018 - Juan Bravo Theater - Segovia
- 15/12/2018 - Social Center Afundación de Pontevedra - Pontevedra
- 16/12/2018 - Afundación de Vigo Cultural Center - Vigo
- From 08/01/2019 to 24/03/2019 - Fine Arts Theater - Madrid
Working world
Café La Tranquility, Avenida del Parallel, Barcelona, 20s of the last century. A beggar approaches a table and asks a man for a coin. He takes a gun out of his jacket, puts it in the beggar's hand and says: “Go to a bank and get what you need. It's yours". The music begins. Thus begins this story, which will go back to the last third of the XNUMXth century, to the creation of the labor movement, and will advance, through the struggles in the countryside and in the city, towards the 30s of the 50th century, the moment of maximum social effervescence, the extermination of war and the war after the war, the first cracks in the silence at the end of the XNUMXs, the immense wave of anti-Francoism, the end of the dictatorship and of the social mobilization that had ended it, the victory of the socialist party, the end of the workers' movement, "the four best decades of our history", and again, the same old struggles but now in a different world, post-industrial, technological. All through historical figures but also through a series of anonymous, invented, very close characters.
Author Alberto San Juan
Company: Neighborhood Theater
Address: Alberto San Juan
Actors: Alberto San Juan, Luis Bermejo, Marta Calvo, Pilar Gomez
Dates:
- From 04/10/2018 to 04/11/2018 - Spanish Theater - Madrid
- 15/11/2018 - Teatre de Salt - Salt (Girona)
- 16/11/2018 - Teatre Joventut - L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona)
- 17/11/2018 - Teatre Principal de Badalona - Badalona (Barcelona)
- From 01/12/2018 to 02/12/2018 - Central Theater - Seville
- From 20/12/2018 to 22/12/2018 - Arriaga Theater - Bilbao
- From 08/03/2019 to 09/03/2019 – Alhambra Theatre – Granada
Every night of a day
Surrounded by housing estates, somewhere near us, survives a old garden with its greenhouseBut it has been a long time since the neighbours last saw Silvia, the owner of the house. Only Samuel, the gardener, remains there, busy preserving this forgotten corner. Every night of a day It begins when the police come to the house to try to discover Silvia's whereabouts. A battle between life and memories, between love and its ghosts, begins.
Author Alberto Conejero
Address: Luis Luque
Actors: Carmelo Gomez, Ana Torrent
Dates:
- 18/10/2018 - Apolo Theater of Miranda de Ebro - Miranda de Ebro (Burgos)
- 19/10/2018 - Caja de Burgos Cultural Center in Aranda de Duero - Aranda de Duero (Burgos)
- 21/10/2018 - Principal Theater of Burgos - Burgos
- 26/10/2018 - Liceo Theater - Salamanca
- 02/11/2018 - Auditori de Torrent - Torrent (Valencia)
- 03/11/2018 - Torre-Pacheco Performing Arts Center - Torre-Pacheco (Murcia)
- 08/11/2018 - La Merced de Cazorla Theater - Cazorla (Jaén)
- 09/11/2018 - New Infanta Leonor Theater - Jaén
- From 10/11/2018 to 11/11/2018 - Miguel de Cervantes Municipal Theater - Malaga
- 16/11/2018 - Quijano Municipal Theater - Ciudad Real
Will you dare to go see any of them at the theater? Let us know!