Tenderness. Alfredo Sanzol
A comedy about lumberjacks and princesses, inspired by the world of Shakespearean comedies, which talks about the impossibility of protecting oneself from the pain caused by love.
General admission: €22 and €16.
The discount for Friends of the Museum, Youth Card holders, university students, large families, groups of 10 or more people, and University of Navarra employees will be applied to General Admission prices.
This show does not have a Youth Rate.
“There are no deserted islands where, free from others, we can return to the illusion of paradise.”
Tenderness, Alfredo Sanzol
"The director dazzles once again with 'La Ternura', an Elizabethan comedy brimming with humor and talent, featuring phenomenal performers."
Marcos Ordoñez, El País – Babelia, May 12, 2017
THE SHOW
Approximate duration: 2 hours without intermission
"I want 'La Ternura' to be a romantic comedy with deserted islands, monumental shipwrecks, fragile kings and dreamy queens, fearful woodcutters and tempestuous shepherdesses, magical beings, changes of identity, unbridled passions, irrational hatreds, incendiary desires, surprising twists, drunken ghosts, apparitions, disappearances, encounters, misunderstandings... and one desire that unites them all: to find Tenderness however, wherever, and with whomever possible."
Alfredo Sanzol
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La Ternura is a romantic adventure comedy, written in Shakespearean style, which speaks of the impossibility of protecting oneself from the pain caused by love and the importance of tenderness in human life. Not even parents can protect their children from the suffering of life because that jeopardizes the experience of a full life. It tells the story of a somewhat magical queen and her two princess daughters who travel on the Spanish Armada, forced by Philip II to marry English nobles in marriages of convenience once the invasion of England has been successfully completed. Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always controlled her life and taken away her freedom, so she is not willing to let her daughters suffer the same fate as her. When the Armada passes near an island that the Queen considers deserted, she creates a storm that sinks the ship on which they are traveling. Her plan is to stay and live on that island with her daughters so that she will never see a man again in her life. The problem is that they choose an island where a woodcutter and his two sons have been living for twenty years, having fled there so they would never have to see a woman again in their lives. As soon as the queen and the two princesses discover that they are not alone, they dress up as men to protect themselves. And this is where the adventures, the messes, the romances, and the confusion begin. Alfredo Sanzol created the show based on a project with Teatro de la Ciudad and Teatro La Abadía in which, in addition to reading and rereading Shakespeare's comedies, he put together the plot of the play and held improvisation workshops with the actors. La Ternura by Alfredo Sanzol is a production by Teatro de La Abadía and Teatro de La Ciudad. |
CAST
THE VERDEMAR WOODCUTTER
Paco Déniz
THE EMERALD QUEEN
Elena Gonzalez
THE SALMON PRINCESS
Natalia Hernandez
THE BLUE SKY WOODCUTTER
Javier Lara
THE BROWN WOODCUTTER
Juan Antonio Lumbreras
THE RUBY PRINCESS
Eva Trancón
ARTISTIC CREDITS
TEXT AND DIRECTION
Alfredo Sanzol
STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN
Alejandro Andújar
LIGHTING
Pedro Yagüe
MUSIC
Fernando Velázquez
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Beatriz Jaén
SET DESIGN AND COSTUME ASSISTANT
Almudena Bautista
Alfredo Sanzol
The work of Alfredo Sanzol (Pamplona, 1972) is characterized by the use of humor and the search for a unique formal style with which he addresses issues from his personal and social biography.
Among his most notable productions are La Respiración (2016, Lazona and Teatro de la Abadía), La Calma Mágica (2014, Tanttaka and Centro Dramático Nacional), Waiting for Godot (2013, Centro Dramático Nacional), Aventura! (2012, T de Teatre and Teatre Lliure), The Importance of Being Earnest (2012, Teatro Gayarre), En la Luna (2011, Teatro de la Abadía), Días Estupendos (2010, Lazona and Centro Dramático Nacional), Delicadas ( 2009, T de Teatre and Festival Grec), The Head of John the Baptist (2009, National Drama Center), Yes, But I'm Not (2008, National Drama Center), Laughter and Destruction (2007, Producciones del Callao), and Like the Greeks (1999, RESAD and Producciones del Callao).
Sanzol has taught courses and workshops at La Casa de América, La Casa Encendida, El Teatro Nacional de Bogotá, Matadero-Madrid, La Sala Beckett, La Escuela Navarra de Teatro, the Sociedad General de Autores (SGAE), the Festival de Teatro Clásico de Olite, La ECAM, the Centro Dramático Nacional, Juneda inCursió, and the Teatro de la Abadía/Teatro de la Ciudad. In 2014, he directed the II Theater Writing Laboratory of the SGAE Foundation and, together with Miguel del Arco and Andrés Lima, created the Teatro de la Ciudad.
He has been awarded the Max Prize for Best Author 2011 for Delicadas; the Max Prize for Best Author 2012 for Días Estupendos; the Ceres-Festival de Mérida Prize for Best Author 2012 for En La Luna; the Max Prize for Best Author 2013 for En La Luna; and the Max Prize for Best Show 2013 for En La Luna. In 2016, he received the Community of Madrid Culture Award. He is a founding member of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts.
Date
October 26, 2017
Time
7:30 p.m.