Creation
Andrea Jiménez
3-5 NOV at 20:00
Andrea Jiménez
In collaboration with the Real Academia de España in Rome
I am a theatre director and I am going to confess something:
I haven’t read Valle-Inclán (welll, I did read Luces de Bohemia at school). But I have directed in a theatre that bears his name.
I know he was Galician, bad-tempered and one-armed. And that he had a spectacular beard. I know he was eccentric, multi-sided, indomitable, and polemical. Gargantuan.
A myth, a legend, a character. A self-made character.
A father of 20th century literature. Another parent to deal with. Another parent to venerate and then rebel against. Another parent to kill. But before that, first, I have to get to know him better.
And for this I am going to travel for a month to the Real Academia de España in Rome, with a mission: to rediscover his time there as director and to investigate his incendiary relationship with both the ministerial authorities and the scholarship holders in his charge, in what were the last three years of his life before his death in 1936. I am going to put the cart before the horse. I’m going to start this story at the end.
Andrea Jiménez
In collaboration with the Real Academia de España in Rome
A director, playwright and actress, Andrea is founder and co-artistic director of the company Teatro En Vilo, winner of the Ojo Crítico de Teatro Award 2019. With a degree in Law and another in Performing Arts from the London International School of Performing Arts, she has worked as a director and playwright with renowned companies in Spain, France and the UK.
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Since 2012, Andrea has created and directed numerous theatre shows for important institutions such as the Centro Dramático Nacional, the Teatro Nacional de Catalunya, the Centro Dramático Galego, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), the Teatro del Barrio or the Teatro Circo Price, and her work has been seen in Spanish and European theatres and festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the BE Festival, the Campania Teatro Festival, the Festival de Otoño, the Festival de Olite, the MIT de Ribadavia, the Festival Meetyou de Valladolid, the Teatros del Canal, the Teatro Fernando Fernán Gómez, the Centro Cultural Conde Duque or the Teatro Arriaga, among others.
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