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Juan Echanove stars in 'Dreams' de Quevedo, Lope de Vega Theater, Seville

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By AndaluNet on 04/04/2017

Juan Echanove stars in 'Dreams' de Quevedo, Lope de Vega Theater, Seville

From 11/05/2017 to the 14/05/2017
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 20:30h
Sunday, 19:30h
Lope de Vega Theatre
Cycle: Theater
From 4 € to 21 € * Feed 2 and 3 trim

Quevedo's ‘Dreams’, Karamazov Company and National Classical Theater Company

Theater. Gerardo Vera directs this classic by Francisco de Quevedo in a free adaptation by José Luis Collado

*This show replaces “The Karamazov Brothers”. Tickets purchased for “The Karamazov Brothers are valid for “Dreams”.

Confront Quevedo and, above all, plunge into that mighty lucid and painful speech about the decline of an empire, It is a nonsense that you are only aware of when you are already with the water around your neck trying to survive that direct onslaught against consciences that is the great work of the great chronicler of unadorned Spanish reality, no alibis, going to the depths of the wound even if you get soaked in his blood. Like a powerful reflection, that wound is the spring from which Quevedo's work springs. And that open sore from his confinement in the San Marcos Prison is the wound itself, so physical that it permeates all his writings. His work becomes an existential bleeding, a painful transition from the fleeting to the eternal. The will of an artist, but above all of a man who suffered in his own flesh the withdrawal of forces taken to their limit in a time in which it was no longer possible to dream, where the epic degraded into rhetoric, bravery in pride, the nobility in inheritance without merits. The reality of the seventeenth century was so overwhelming that "you could only vegetate or live raw". And that's how Quevedo lived, contemporary of Velázquez, also painter of the Spanish settlement. That we have tried to reflect from his most personal work, their dreams, painful and lucid chronicle of a Spain prey to the corruption of the absolute monarchies of Felipe III and IV, prey to leisure and ignorance, where philosophy was enslaved by theology. Everything smelled rotten in Madrid and Spain, and that's where dreams scandalize, gossipy and truthful, cartoon, testimony, pain and laughter, written by a hand pierced by pain that oozes its own inner wound. Quevedo becomes, unintentionally, in the most faithful witness of how we began to lose everything. And already from the properly theatrical, His reflection on the reality of his time is so profound that it makes us move to our time on an extraordinarily lucid and powerful journey where Francis Bacon can coexist, Federico Fellini, Bosco, Bela Bartok, and Nino Rota. That's our way.

Thanks to Helena Pimenta and the CNTC for accompanying us on this trip with their unconditional complicity and encouragement.. To Juan Echanove, big and generous, the soul of this project, and the newly founded Karamazov Company which, thanks to him and his passion for theater, has already embarked on a stimulating and necessary journey. Thanks to José Luis Collado for his dedication and his vigilance in this new theatrical challenge after his adaptation of The Karamázov Brothers. And how could it be otherwise, thanks to all my team, by my side always. Surely without all of them this show would not be the same.

Gerardo Vera

Address GERARDO VERA
Adaptation JOSÉ LUIS COLLADO

Cast
Juan Echanove
Oscar de la Fuente
Markos Marín
Antonio Medina
Antonia Paso
Lucía Quintana
Marta Ribera
Chema Ruiz
Ferran Vilajosana
Eugenio Villota
Abel Vitón

Set design Gerardo Vera and Alejandro Andújar
Costume Design Alejandro Andújar
Lighting Juan Gómez-Cornejo
Music Luis Delgado
Video scene Álvaro Luna
Assistant director José Luis Arellano
Photography Sergio Parra
Charo Fernández Insausti Distribution

A co-production of COMPAÑÍA KARAMÁZOV in co-production with the CNTC (National Classical Theater Company)

Learn more: www.teatrolopedevega.org