The Sala Verde of the Teatro del Canal presents until next 1 February, from Tuesday to Sunday, the play Numancia, by Miguel de Cervantes.
This production of the Community of Madrid for Teatros del Canal, directed and performed by José Luis Alonso de Santos presents a Don Miguel de Cervantes more alive than ever.
Numancia is the first Spanish tragedy, the best of the 16th century and one of the most important in Spanish and universal theatre. Its vitality and theatricality are mainly due to the human emotion with which its characters are conceived, especially the collective character of a whole people.
After more than 15 years of fruitless struggle against the city of Numancia, the Roman Senate sends to Hispania, about 130 BC, the victorious general Scipio, who has just defeated the Carthaginians and was crowned as a triumphant in Rome.
Scipio builds an imposing work of war engineering so that no one can enter or leave Numancia, surrounding it with a deep and wide moat with a set of camps and watchtowers. Numantinos try to break the fence in a thousand ways, but everything is useless. The legend tells how the decision of a brave boy marked the fate of Numancia, preventing Scipio from receiving the crown of triumphant. And fame made the end of that story fixed forever in memory.
With a rich language, not in vain we speak of Cervantes, raises on the stage an insuperable altarpiece of war, hunger and death and introduces in the scenic peripecia basic dimensions of human coexistence, such as love, family, the friendship and relationship with the gods and the world beyond death.
The dramatic action is seen by Cervantes from different perspectives so that the viewer can know the two sides. To which are added the allegorical figures that open space and time to images and ideas, above the concrete development of the argument. Tickets can be purchased at this link.