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Texts from classics such as Calderón de la Barca, an adaptation of Juan Mayorga's entrance speech in the RAE, Shakespeare, the return of La Zaranda,

Julio Llamazares's

Yellow Rain

, Max Aub ... More than 60 projects from

more than 50 authors

has programmed the Spanish Theater and Naves del Matadero, Natalia Menéndez, its artistic director, has announced.

Theater in all its formats, author, family, musical, document, dance,

performance

... And the flamenco world through the eyes of the photographer Colita.

With the epigraph of Breathe theater, the new season will begin on September 8 with

Oedipus. Through the flames

of Paco Bezerra and directed by Luis Luque

where sacrifice and renunciation are addressed to try to change the world through the myth of Oedipus. Two days later,

Despierta

, by Ana Rayo, a montage where therapies, disorders, mistreatment are addressed.

.. "A history of overcoming sexist stereotypes, turned into educational errors, in order to advance with equal rights and obligations", in the words of Natalia Menéndez, who is directing the assembly.

From

Colita

, the great Catalan photographer, you can see

79 snapshots of flamenco

taken from the Somorrostro in Barcelona to Jerez and Madrid, and from the early 1960s to this century. His portraits of Carmen Amaya, Antonio Gades, La Piriñaca, Paco de Lucía or El Chocolate ...

The Yellow Rain

, the 1988 novel by Julio Llamazares in which he already addressed depopulation

through two residents of a forgotten town will be exhibited. , will be adapted and directed by Jesús Arbués. No less interest arouses

For some time now

, a

monologue by Max Aub

that he wrote in Paris in 1939 in which he recounts the anguish of a woman with Jewish blood who has lost everything after the annexation of Austria by Germany.

The magnificent text by

Juan Mayorga that he read as admission to the Royal Academy of the Language and entitled

Silence

will be interpreted by Blanca Portillo

.

The monologue makes us travel through different theatrical silences, from

Antigone

to

Life is a dream

.

It is noteworthy, and not a little, the return of the group

La Zaranda

, this time with

The Battle of the Absent,

which will try to answer the question, would anything have changed if victory had been achieved in that distant war?

A satire against power and a plea for resistance.

Surely

The house of Bernarda Alba

de Lorca, with a cast led by Ana Fernández and Ruth Gabriel

and directed by José Carlos Plaza, will achieve a good response from the public. An unbeatable classic.

This night

Pirandello's

comedy is improvised

, it will investigate the theatrical world, just as the Italian Nobel Prize winner did with

Six Characters in Search of an Author

. Here, a director forces his actors to improvise. Directed by Ernesto Caballero.

The theatrical season includes

Nocturnos

, the story of the end of

the relationship between the novelist George Sand and the pianist Frédéric Chopin,

written by Irene Correa and directed by Alicia Gorina. Jesús Cracio recovers the

Style Exercises by

Raymond Queneau in the montage

¿Qué no ...?

, that is to say: almost infinite variations of the same theme that will be accompanied by different versions of the popular

Bach

Toccata and Fugue

. And for not leaving music,

Mario Gas

returns (never left) with

Amici miei

, where he sings and recites in a show also created by him and accompanied on piano by Bárbara Granados.

Burdina / Hierro

is presented in a more serious tone

, "the story of an Andalusian migrant in the Gallarta mining basin (Vizcaya); that is, the pain of being uprooted, the encounter with another culture." Directed by Adriana Bilbao and Beñat Achiary. It also faces the cruelest aspect of reality

The infamy

of journalist

Lydia Cacho, based on her book

Memorias de una infamia

; corruption of the Mexican State for trafficking in girls

.

Natalia Menéndez also directs

Life is a Dream

, Calderón's classic, in a Spanish co-production with the Stanislavski Theater in Moscow and with the support of the Cervantes Institute and the Spanish Embassy in Russia. And the montage of Calixto Bieito

Reino

, based on the historical dramas of Shakespeare

Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III

, that is to say

the War of the Roses,

the contest between the House of Lancaster and the of York. Pure tragedy. It stars

Josep Maria Pou

. More Shakespeare:

Twelfth Night

directed by a true Bard specialist, Helena Pimenta.

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

also returns

with

Malvivir

, a show based on the secret life of the mischievous Elena de Paz, a thief and free woman who represents the dark side of the Golden Age. And another important name, Carlos Hipólito, who in

Oceania

draws

the Artistic and vital testament of the long-awaited playwright who died of the virus Gerardo Vera.

In the dance section, do not miss Rocío Molina and her

Trilogy on the guitar

and the now classic

May B

choreography

by Maguy Marin on the work of Samuel Beckett.

And a musical appointment: a theatrical concert by Silvia Pérez Cruz.

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