Possible loves in impossible situations
El Teatro de la Ciudad will once again appear at La Abadía. After travelling to the cradle of Western theatre with a Greco-Latin tragedy, it has now delved into the realm of comedy.
Two newly-created shows will play around, each in their own way, with the motifs and mechanisms employed in the comedies of William Shakespeare, the undisputed master of this genre, who not only brought together the tradition of the Ancients, but also that of the commedia dell’arte, travelling players and the late Medieval stories of figures such as Boccaccio.
The first production will be by Alfredo Sanzol, whose rereading of Shakespeare, in his own words, will include the following: “I want La Ternura (“Tenderness”) to be a romantic comedy replete with desert islands, monumental shipwrecks, fragile kings and dreamy queens, fearful woodcutters and tempestuous shepherdesses, magical creatures, changes of identity, unfettered passions, irrational hatreds, incendiary desires, surprising twists, drunken ghosts, apparitions, disappearances, encounters, disagreements … and one desire to bind them all: that of finding Tenderness, by whatever means possible, wherever it may be and whomever it may be with.”
El Leñador Verdemar Paco Déniz
La Reina Esmeralda Elena González
La Princesa Salmón Natalia Hernández
El Leñador Azulcielo Javier Lara
El Leñador Marrón Juan Antonio Lumbreras
La Princesa Rubí Eva Trancón
Texto y dirección Alfredo Sanzol
Espacio escénico y vestuario Alejandro Andújar
Iluminación Pedro Yagüe
Música Fernando Velázquez
Ayudante de dirección Beatriz Jaén
Ayudante de escenografía y vestuario Almudena Bautista
Producción ejecutiva Jair Souza-Ferreira
Ayudantes de producción Elisa Fernández / Sara Brogueras
Dirección de producción Miguel Cuerdo
Comunicación El Norte Comunicación
Fotografía Luis Castilla / María Calderón
Estudiantes en prácticas Tomás Cabané, Celia María Morán y Alejandro Pérez
Agradecimientos Teatro Español
