1936 - Centro Dramático Nacional

1936

Text: Albert Boronat, Juan Mayorga, Juan Cavestany and Andrés Lima Playwright Albert Boronat and Andrés Lima Director:  Andrés Lima

TICKETS

29 NOV to 26 JAN Tuesday to Sunday at 19:00 | Duration approx. 4h and 30 min.

Morning show: Tuesday 14 JAN at 10:30 Accessible performances: 19 and 20 DEC 2024

Valle-Inclán Theatre | Sala Grande

TEAM

Text

Albert Boronat, Juan Cavestany, Andrés Lima and Juan Mayorga

Playwriting

Albert Boronat and Andrés Lima

Directing

Andrés Lima

Cast

Antonio Durán “Morris”, Alba Flores, Natalia Hernández, María Morales, Paco Ochoa, Blanca Portillo, Guillermo Toledo, Juan Vinuesa and the Youth Choir Association of Madrid

Set design and wardrobe

Beatriz San Juan

Lighting

Pedro Yagüe

Musical composition

Jaume Manresa

Sound designer

Kike Mingo

Assistant director

Laura Ortega

Video Creation

Miguel Ángel Raió

Characterisation

Cécile Kretschmar

Producer

Joseba Gil

Producer

Centro Dramático Nacional, Check in Producciones and El Terrat.

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Writer and director’s note

1936 The military coup of 18 July 1936 in Spain led to a civil war that lasted three long years. If we define “shock” as a violent blow to a society that results in the implementation of an economic, political and social regime, Spain in ’36 is the beginning of a major shock that will last 40 years and that still has a decisive influence on all classes and levels of Spanish society.

For many years, the official history in this country has been told from the perspective of the victors (sad word), of the rebels. And this lack of historical education persists to this day. But the theatrical look of this staging is not based on the dichotomy of the winners and the vanquished, of friends and enemies. Our gaze will be analytical, critical and documentary. Our responsibility is to relive a war. And a war is not just a failure as a society, but a huge emotional gash. A civil war, among brothers, is possibly the worst of wars. Theatre can reflect that emotion. I want the viewer to reflect, for our teens and young people to understand, and for us all to be in the other’s shoes. How does it feel to be bombed, to shelter in a metro station, alongside your neighbours, who may report you for your ideas? How does it feel to escape on a road in Málaga while the German navy and Italian planes wipe out the disabled, elderly and children? What does it feel like to decide to level Guernica? How do you live in a trench while waiting for death? What is a “walk”? What is terror?

The conflict, its ramifications, causes and consequences are too great. But we’re going to give it a try through theatre. We’re going to try to paint a picture that is sufficiently eloquent to remind and imagine, to ask us questions that help us to understand better, to try to find out where the wounds are.

Because there was blood, a lot. The war led to a Francoist regime that was backed by the church, the army, the aristocracy and much of society. It is the people who make me wonder the most. How and why is a regime that relies on repression supported? How can a human not be a humanist? And today? It used to be that the far-right took over by force; now, it is voted into power at the ballot box. Why?

  Andrés Lima

TEAM

Text

Albert Boronat, Juan Cavestany, Andrés Lima and Juan Mayorga

Playwriting

Albert Boronat and Andrés Lima

Directing

Andrés Lima

Cast

Antonio Durán “Morris”, Alba Flores, Natalia Hernández, María Morales, Paco Ochoa, Blanca Portillo, Guillermo Toledo, Juan Vinuesa and the Youth Choir Association of Madrid

Set design and wardrobe

Beatriz San Juan

Lighting

Pedro Yagüe

Musical composition

Jaume Manresa

Sound designer

Kike Mingo

Assistant director

Laura Ortega

Video Creation

Miguel Ángel Raió

Characterisation

Cécile Kretschmar

Producer

Joseba Gil

Producer

Centro Dramático Nacional, Check in Producciones and El Terrat.

Biography

Andrés Lima

Andrés Lima

Andrés Lima (Madrid, 1961) is a director, actor and playwright who is considered one of the great directors on the Spanish theatre scene. His productions have helped to modernise the concepts of theatrical staging. He has completed numerous courses in Spain and received a grant from the Royal Court Theatre in London through its international residency programme for emerging playwrights.

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He is the founder of the company Animalario, where he has directed several works, including, Penumbra (2010), Urtain (2008), Tito ndrónico (2009), Argelin o (servidor de dos amos) (2008), Marat-Sade (2006) and Hamelin (2005).

His latest productions include Shock 1 (El Cóndor y el Puma) (2019) for Centro Dramático Nacional (CDN), for which he won his fifth Max Award for Best Direction.

As a stage director he has worked for the Comédie-Française (Las joyeuses commères de Windsor, 2011, and Bonheur, 2009) and the Stadsteater in Goteborg, Sweden (El caso Danton, 2012, and Blackbird, 2010). He has won numerous awards, including the Max Award for Best Direction for Urtain, Argelino (servidor de dos amos), Marat-Sade and Hamelin, and also won the 2019 National Theatre Award.

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Juan Mayorga

Juan Mayorga

Degree in Philosophy and Mathematics in 1988. He continued his studies in Münster, Berlin and Paris. In 1997, he received a doctorate in Philosophy. He has been a professor of Mathematics in Madrid and Alcalá de Henares, professor of Theatre Arts and Philosophy at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid, and director of the seminar “Memory and thought in contemporary theatre”, at the CSIC Institute of Philosophy. He is currently the director of the Master’s in Theatrical Creation at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is an elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy, and since February 2022, he has been the director of the Teatro de la Abadía.

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His extensive theatre work, including El chico de la última fila (The Boy in the Back Row)—adapted for the cinema by François Ozon in the film Dans la maison (In the house), which won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival—Animales nocturnos, Hamelin, Cartas de amor a Stalin, La paz perpetua and El cartógrafo, has been translated into more than thirty languages. He has received three Max Awards for Best Playwright (2006, 2008 and 2009), the National Theatre Award (2007), the Valle-Inclán Award (2009), the Ceres Award, La Barraca Award, and the National Award for Dramatic Literature (2013).

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