Until 7 January, the Sala Tirso de Molina at the Teatro de la Comedia in Madrid (Calle del Príncipe, 14) will be showing the play La vida es juego (Life is a Game), which offers the youngest members of the family the classics of the Golden Age of Spanish literature through a feast of hors d’oeuvres.
The one-hour production, produced by the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, will bring different texts from the Spanish Golden Age, most of which belong to the shorter and more festive dramatic genres of the loa and the entremés, to family audiences aged 5 and over. Thus, throughout the show, fragments and scenes from the plays Lope de Vega’s Loa del comediante, Miguel de Cervantes’ El retablo de las maravillas, and Lope de Rueda’s La tierra de Jauja and La carátula will be adapted. In addition, several passages from Calderón de la Barca’s drama La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) are particularly significant.
The play takes us to a poetic space and time where four elderly people live in seclusion under the care of a solicitous caretaker played by Juan Berzal, Marta Hurtado, Juam Monedero, Jorge Padín and Gemma Viguera. The comedians are not resigned to living locked up; they remember the happy old days when they used to go from town to town, performing and shining like stars. They understand life as a game, and theatre as a space of freedom that allows them to transcend their reality, so, in order to live, they are ready to re-interpret classic texts from the Golden Age. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
