The most interesting plays on the billboard

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The Madrid theatrical billboard continues to enjoy excellent health, with a varied repertoire that touches all the sticks: from improvisation to jealousy, passing through female empowerment, adoption or the influence of authors such as

or

.

Theater in balls (Teatro Lara)

The actor

and the musician

make their debut at the

with a carefully improvised show:

.

This is the essence of a montage in which the public is the key protagonist of the plot, always with the utmost respect and affection.

Rabaneda and Legido try to catch a first idea among the public that inspires the staging of the work.

"It is a function imbued with kamikaze humor in which we make use of the generosity of the public, the true protagonist.

," says Rabaneda, a familiar face for the Madrid public thanks to his work as a reporter in

from Telemadrid.

will be at the Lara every Saturday until June 11.

Luck (Theatre of La Abadía)

The work talks about the experience of

and

as a homoparental and interracial family.

An emotional and vital vicissitudes, but also a long administrative and judicial journey with one goal: to form a family.

Through their personal experience, the creators talk about diversity, other family structures, racial issues, representations and identities.

.

On the one hand because of the difficulties to which the adopters had to submit and, on the other, because of the environment from which the minors come.

Decades ago it was an almost taboo subject and the negative connotations of adoption are still frequent.

If anything characterizes the profile and needs of adopted persons and their families, it is their variability and the absence of a homogeneous typology.

It cannot be ignored that

", explains the playwright Juli Disla. Until May 8 at the

.

The Swarm (Little Theater Gran Vía)

The Basque company

returns to the capital with a fresh comedy, "braided with a lot of humor and emotion", which reflects on issues such as motherhood, sisterhood or female empowerment, and which has had a resounding success in its premiere at the Victoria Eugenia Theater in Donosti in 2018 and on its subsequent tour in Basque and Spanish.

A group of childhood friends go to a rural house to celebrate the bachelorette party of one of them.

But the years do not pass in vain, and although they continue to feel a very strong bond, nothing is what it was.

And what

dirty laundry, confessions, alcohol, drugs... Directed by

, one of the most prominent figures in the performing arts of the Basque Country, stars

and

.

It can be seen at the Little Theater Gran Vía in Madrid from May 4 to 29.

Shakespeare's Tragic Clowns (Price Circus Theatre)

Four clowns who love Shakespearean dramaturgy barricade themselves in a theater on the outskirts, about to be closed down, to present their versions of

,

and

.

Hiding their true intentions behind an innocent night of bingo,

.

The most poetic and theatrical moments are combined with a hilarious succession of gags and misunderstandings typical of the world of clowns.

However, the fear of being arrested by the security forces that come to the building is sometimes stronger and, at times, clouds the performance.

With this initial approach,

, a benchmark for clowning and physical theater in Europe and Latin America, will present on May 13 and 14 at the

a show that combines gestural theatre, humor and the work of the clown with the classic tragedies of

.

The Lady in White, Emily Dickinson (Quique San Francisco Theater)

The Madrid company

premieres in Madrid

, a personal vision by director

of

.

In this montage,

immerses herself in the character of Dickinson and discovers in the voluntary isolation of the poet the parallelism experienced by herself in the pandemic.

In this way, she will be able to turn her confinement into a creative and revealing experience.

The show presents

, in a groundbreaking encounter with what is considered the greatest American poet of all time.

The play will be from Wednesday to Sunday at the

until May 8, 2022.

The wind is wild (Fourth Wall Room)

With

behind it, and endorsed by several awards, such as the

, a story of universal passions told from "a small place in the South of the South" arrives in Madrid.

It tells the story of two friends, so close that they are sisters, united since childhood by unbreakable love and fidelity.

They share everything: toys, clothes, cigarettes, rouge... There is only a shadow over their friendship: "While one grew trusting / Spoiled by life and smiling / The other felt miserable."

A tragedy crossed by laughter, bright and wild, narrated with its own language that

.

"Our new show is a playful and

reflection on luck. On jealousy and guilt, passions and forbidden loves. It is a tragedy, in verse, with all the classic elements of the genre, but shot through with laughter, like It could not be otherwise in a show of ours. Because we know that in every terrible story there is a paradox that can lead to comedy; and on the contrary, in every outburst of humor there is a background of tragedy", explain Las Niñas de Cádiz.

It can be seen from April 28 to May 15 in

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