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Las asambleístas (Those who stumble)

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

Our protagonists have spent years and years, centuries really, stumbling over the same stones, making the same mistakes. Most of these mistakes have been mainly caused by the laws created by men.

The goddess Nemesis, fed up with this injustice, decides to cast a spell on women so that they unite and become aware. Together they must steal the men’s clothes and seize the assembly in order to change the established laws for more just and egalitarian ones.

But they will only have one night to cross the great forest that leads to the hill where the assembly is held at daybreak.

The road is dark and full of dangers, all mirrored to them wherein they see their own lives reflected. Facing their fears, they must figure out which laws need to be changed to have a lasting effect, once and for all.

The members of assembly will make us reflect and laugh at our roles in society, forcing us to get involved and take sides whether we like it or not.

Duration: 90 minutes.
Age: older than 12 years old.

The Comedy of Errors

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

What is the truth? What is the origin of all that we agree to call “true”? Where do the foundations of the correct answers lie?

Dear public, is not error, perhaps, the answer to all those questions? What would be true and correct, if it were not for error? Would they exist as such? Truth owes its existence to falsehood and error, since the very idea requires the opposite to exist. The authentic and the correct are always so flat, so…so boring, don’t you think?

In The Comedy of Errors we start with a death sentence and everything turns into a party by mistake. By mistake we change partners thinking we are right and by mistake we end up in jail thinking we are honest. We learn from our mistakes, but it is a mistake to think this if we aspire not to make mistakes.

Greece, cradle of our culture, mother of Aristotle, Pericles and the Dionysian festivals, grandmother of Zorba the Greek, Varoufakis and the raves of Barceloneta. Four twins, that is to say, two pairs of twins related to two twin girls, who mistakenly pair up with the twins who are not their partners while their real twins disguise themselves as the wrong twins to seduce their twins, impostors of themselves…? or is it not? …no, I’m wrong, I’m wrong. In reality, they are a pair of twins, who are not twins to each other, but to another couple who are not twins to each other either, but to the other couple, who acquire a debt with a jeweler, a friend of an exorcist who lives near an Abbey where there is a Mother Abbess who is married to a merchant traveler whom she believes to be dead and is therefore more mother than abbess…or not, am I wrong again? The fact is that everyone wants to party by the sea in Ephesus… Does Ephesus have a port? It has a library and a beautiful theater, but… the sea?

I hope that Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Mikis Theodorakis join us on this journey and that you, dear audience, enjoy the party.

Andrés Lima and Albert Boronat

Duration: 110 minutes (approx).
Recommended age: Over 12 years old

Los Titanes. The Fury of the Gods

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

The Titans were the children of Gaea and Uranus according to mythology. When the two joined together they created “The World”. The Roman Theater of Mérida’s watchman is in charge of telling the incredible story of The Titans. He tells of how they were the first settlers on Earth and why we know of them in this day and age. Adventures, songs, fighting, humor, magic, and dancing all come together to teach us why we are the way we are today.

Duration: 1h 35 minutes.
Recommended age: All audiences.

Zeus’s gift

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

Deucalion dreams of going to Mars, speculating on that distant planet and returning as a hero. Pirra, like her mother Pandora, is an explorer and dreams of digging up and resurrecting the history that sustains us and then live peacefully on the hump of our mother Earth. He knows he has to keep conquering. She knows that, in the depths of time and on distant Olympus, a vessel keeps the philosopher’s stone of Hope and she is sure that by rescuing it, she will relax Zeus and his vengeful lightning. Thus we will rest from all the punishments that beset us today.

Talia, the Muse of comedy, feels inspired by this couple and sees a way to take revenge on her sister Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, who terrifies humanity and also always reaps success. Talía goes down to the arena to breathe her version of events into the young people, she manages to get them in a car and take them to Olympus. Here they come across magic, the most difficult game yet, entertainment, tension and everything necessary to change history; always with the help of her mother, the Muse of Memory, and her father, the mighty Zeus.

The story is always the same, because it is written about the deeds of a hero from the eyes of a poet, from the soul and bowels of the artist, and inspired by the Muses of Olympus. Here Zeus, the immortal cloud-gatherer, still rules and has sent men the best of gifts, woman.

Every explanation, with its prejudice or veneration, is part of the imagination, the subconscious, the legend. Everything is fiction and true at the same time. Put disbelief aside and enjoy a comedy integrated with dance, circus and a magical universe.

Duration: 110 minutes.
Recommended age: For all audiences.

Zeus’s gift

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

Deucalion dreams of going to Mars, speculating on that distant planet and returning as a hero. Pirra, like her mother Pandora, is an explorer and dreams of digging up and resurrecting the history that sustains us and then live peacefully on the hump of our mother Earth. He knows he has to keep conquering. She knows that, in the depths of time and on distant Olympus, a vessel keeps the philosopher’s stone of Hope and she is sure that by rescuing it, she will relax Zeus and his vengeful lightning. Thus we will rest from all the punishments that beset us today.

Talia, the Muse of comedy, feels inspired by this couple and sees a way to take revenge on her sister Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, who terrifies humanity and also always reaps success. Talía goes down to the arena to breathe her version of events into the young people, she manages to get them in a car and take them to Olympus. Here they come across magic, the most difficult game yet, entertainment, tension and everything necessary to change history; always with the help of her mother, the Muse of Memory, and her father, the mighty Zeus.

The story is always the same, because it is written about the deeds of a hero from the eyes of a poet, from the soul and bowels of the artist, and inspired by the Muses of Olympus. Here Zeus, the immortal cloud-gatherer, still rules and has sent men the best of gifts, woman.

Every explanation, with its prejudice or veneration, is part of the imagination, the subconscious, the legend. Everything is fiction and true at the same time. Put disbelief aside and enjoy a comedy integrated with dance, circus and a magical universe.

Duration: 110 minutes.
Recommended age: For all audiences.

Los Titanes. The Fury of the Gods

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

The Titans were the children of Gaea and Uranus according to mythology. When the two joined together they created “The World”. The Roman Theater of Mérida’s watchman is in charge of telling the incredible story of The Titans. He tells of how they were the first settlers on Earth and why we know of them in this day and age. Adventures, songs, fighting, humor, magic, and dancing all come together to teach us why we are the way we are today.

Duration: 1h 35 minutes.
Recommended age: All audiences.

Miles Gloriosus

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

Pyrgopolynices is the new Miles Gloriosus, the ruler of the city for the next four years. Everyone doesn’t agree and no-one is quite sure how he got the job.

Palestrión, my infiltrator, and Periplectómeno, the leader of the opposition, with the help of a whole team, will try to obtain confidential papers that will help condemn Pyrgopolynices’ behaviour. Through a hole between the walls of the dispatch offices, Filocomasia will try not to let him find out while he goes from place to place with the information to get what he’s looking for.

Politics has never been so spectacular.

Zeus’s gift

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

Deucalion dreams of going to Mars, speculating on that distant planet and returning as a hero. Pirra, like her mother Pandora, is an explorer and dreams of digging up and resurrecting the history that sustains us and then live peacefully on the hump of our mother Earth. He knows he has to keep conquering. She knows that, in the depths of time and on distant Olympus, a vessel keeps the philosopher’s stone of Hope and she is sure that by rescuing it, she will relax Zeus and his vengeful lightning. Thus we will rest from all the punishments that beset us today.

Talia, the Muse of comedy, feels inspired by this couple and sees a way to take revenge on her sister Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, who terrifies humanity and also always reaps success. Talía goes down to the arena to breathe her version of events into the young people, she manages to get them in a car and take them to Olympus. Here they come across magic, the most difficult game yet, entertainment, tension and everything necessary to change history; always with the help of her mother, the Muse of Memory, and her father, the mighty Zeus.

The story is always the same, because it is written about the deeds of a hero from the eyes of a poet, from the soul and bowels of the artist, and inspired by the Muses of Olympus. Here Zeus, the immortal cloud-gatherer, still rules and has sent men the best of gifts, woman.

Every explanation, with its prejudice or veneration, is part of the imagination, the subconscious, the legend. Everything is fiction and true at the same time. Put disbelief aside and enjoy a comedy integrated with dance, circus and a magical universe.

Duration: to be confirmed.
Recommended age: For all audiences.

The Comedy of Errors

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

What is the truth? What is the origin of all that we agree to call “true”? Where do the foundations of the correct answers lie?

Dear public, is not error, perhaps, the answer to all those questions? What would be true and correct, if it were not for error? Would they exist as such? Truth owes its existence to falsehood and error, since the very idea requires the opposite to exist. The authentic and the correct are always so flat, so…so boring, don’t you think?

In The Comedy of Errors we start with a death sentence and everything turns into a party by mistake. By mistake we change partners thinking we are right and by mistake we end up in jail thinking we are honest. We learn from our mistakes, but it is a mistake to think this if we aspire not to make mistakes.

Greece, cradle of our culture, mother of Aristotle, Pericles and the Dionysian festivals, grandmother of Zorba the Greek, Varoufakis and the raves of Barceloneta. Four twins, that is to say, two pairs of twins related to two twin girls, who mistakenly pair up with the twins who are not their partners while their real twins disguise themselves as the wrong twins to seduce their twins, impostors of themselves…? or is it not? …no, I’m wrong, I’m wrong. In reality, they are a pair of twins, who are not twins to each other, but to another couple who are not twins to each other either, but to the other couple, who acquire a debt with a jeweler, a friend of an exorcist who lives near an Abbey where there is a Mother Abbess who is married to a merchant traveler whom she believes to be dead and is therefore more mother than abbess…or not, am I wrong again? The fact is that everyone wants to party by the sea in Ephesus… Does Ephesus have a port? It has a library and a beautiful theater, but… the sea?

I hope that Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Mikis Theodorakis join us on this journey and that you, dear audience, enjoy the party.

Andrés Lima and Albert Boronat

Duration: 110 minutes (approx).
Recommended age: Over 12 years old

Los Titanes. The Fury of the Gods

Posted on: April 16th, 2024

The Titans were the children of Gaea and Uranus according to mythology. When the two joined together they created “The World”. The Roman Theater of Mérida’s watchman is in charge of telling the incredible story of The Titans. He tells of how they were the first settlers on Earth and why we know of them in this day and age. Adventures, songs, fighting, humor, magic, and dancing all come together to teach us why we are the way we are today.

Duration: 1h 35 minutes.
Recommended age: All audiences.

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