The Almagro Festival will celebrate 50 performances in the next edition from July 2 to 26, and will honor the actor Pepe Viyuela with the Corral de Comedias prize and the set designer and costume designer Elisa Sanz Homenaje of the festival.
Performers such as Ana Wagener, Secun de la Rosa, Mina El Hammani, Marta Poveda, David Lorente, Itziar Miranda, Lola Baldrich, Joaquín Notario and directors such as Juan Mayorga, Rakel Camacho, Alberto Conejero, Rosa León or María Goiricelaya will be some of the authors most represented, with the protagonists of this year’s edition of Certes
Festival director Irene Pardo presented these plays at the Teatro de la Comedia, a program that invites you to “play to find yourself in the labyrinth of the Baroque”, with 16 absolute masterpieces and three in Spain, which will be represented in new spaces that integrate certainty.
The host for this edition is located there own “redescubrimiento” Corral de Comedias in 1952. The use of an 18th-century set of cards – often abandoned by theater companies in contexts in which the play was banned – made it possible to identify the location as a stage space. Pepe Viyuela’s visit will not be just to accept the award, in which Rosa León will play Here I will count my questions, concert-recital beginning romances around love.
Irene Pardo was thrilled to announce that the Corral de Comedias award would go to “a comedian, a person supported by us again”.
“Being an actor, a payaso and a poet is a huge blessing, not only because of what he has in his career, but also because of the way he has it, because of his coherence, because of his honesty, because of this way of being on and off the script.”
The Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (CNTC) will open the festival with a performance of “El caballero de Olmedo”, first directed by artistic director Laila Ripoll.

The actor Pepe Viyuela (c), who will be awarded the Premio Corral de Comedias of the 49th Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, receives the applause of the assistants during the presentation of this festival this year at the Teatro de la Comedia de Madrid. Photo: EFE/ Marcos Villaoslada
He will write the new promotion of Young CNTC with ‘The Secret and the Tapada’, a version of Carolina Africa directed by Beatriz Argüello. Lope de Vega will be present Wife of womenwhich Alfonso Plou and María López Insausti aspire to the suffragists of the nineteenth century.
PUSH Laurencia de Alberto Conejero, played by Ana Wagener, joins Manuela Barrero and beyond Bruh! through dance the contemporary feeling of the great female figures of the Golden Age. Love for everyone. Lope de Vega and the CNTC: 40 years of harmony It is an exhibition that commemorates four decades of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico.
The author star of this issue, Cervantes, takes the hand of Raquel Camacho Word of dog, reimagining The conversation of pears written by Juan Mayorga. They will suffer from the script as well Trujaman between Cervantes and Shakespeare; and also El compuesto milagroso de Cervantes y Saavedra; it is also pointed Captivas por Cervantesstarring Mina El Hammani. And you can catch up on a free-to-air movie session if you schedule a movie bailiff, by Alejandro Amenábar.
The historic Italian puppet company Carlo Colla & Figli will produce a version Don Quixote not published since 1879; Julieta Soria is incorporated into the las Quijotesques. Y, inside the Barroco Infantil League Son of Cervantes. Basic titles of Zlaté znemi a.s Bob the ladyLope de Vega directed by Josep María Mestres; Pure Don Diegoby Agustin Moreto; There is a game between the beansde Rojas Zorrilla.
WashMolière, in the Théâtre de la Tempête version, too R&J, trip to tuerca Romeo and Julietfrom Shakespeare, with whom María Goiricelaya searches for a new romantic paradigm of the XXI. century. The verses of Calderón, Lope and Quevedo are translated into it The noble art of engaño, piece by Laura Ferrer and Arturo Martínez Vázquez. Ferrer is also one of the three directors Fiestajoined by Marta Poveda and Natalia Llorente.
International cooperation is concentrated in China with Written in audiofrom Shanghai Opera Troupe y company romance. Between East and Westwith which Fahmi Alqhai returns with Pleasure Academy.
“Now that we live immersed in algorithms that anticipate what we think and in artificial intelligence that orients how we think, the festival offers something different, a place where we can feel things, play and discuss them freely as a larger spirit enclosure,” concluded the director.

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