The actor Alberto San Juan presents the play Macho grita at the Teatro Pavón in Madrid (Calle de Embajadores, 9), a musical comedy about the invisible history of Spain and the construction of its identity.
Alberto San Juan says that Macho grita is a “chronicle of my own blindness about the history of Spain”, a “stammering attempt to approach the historical process by which the norm that establishes what it is to be Spanish is constructed”. It is “an attempt to identify who we are and who the others are, and why the war between the two sides. The expression, perhaps, of the longing to overcome personal pronouns and lead to something that, without pain or shame, we can call life”. It is a musical comedy written and performed by this actor, playwright and director, which, after premiering last May at the Teatro de la Comedia as part of the Contemporary Dialogues cycle of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, arrives at the Teatro Pavón for a two-month run.
The play is based on the myth of Don Juan, which acts as a trigger to start the story. Through musical numbers and a monologue, the audience will review the invisible history of Spain, listen to the voice of the losers, victims of that fratricidal struggle that will decide the expulsion of the Jews or the Moors from our country, and will locate the origins of patriarchy. “Am I a man, or do I just look like a man, am I white, or do I just look white, am I European, or do I just look European,” asks the creator. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
