Tenderness. Alfredo Sanzol
A comedy of lumberjacks and princesses, inspired by the universe of Shakespeare's comedies, which speaks of the impossibility of protecting oneself from the harm caused by love.
General admission: 22€ and 16€.
A discount will be applied to the General Admission prices for Friends of the Museum, Youth Card holders, university students, Large Families, groups of 10 or more people and University of Navarra employees.
This show does not have a Fila Joven rate.
"There are no desert islands where, free from others, we can return to the illusion of paradise."
The Tenderness, Alfredo Sanzol
"The director dazzles again with 'La Ternura', an Elizabethan comedy overflowing with humor and talent with phenomenal performers."
Marcos Ordoñez, El País - Babelia, 12/05/17
THE SHOW
Approximate duration 2 hours without rest
"I want 'Tenderness' to be a romantic comedy with deserted islands, monumental shipwrecks, fragile kings and dreamy queens, fearful lumberjacks and tempestuous shepherdesses, magical beings, identity changes, unleashed passions, irrational hatreds, incendiary desires, surprising twists, drunken ghosts, apparitions, disappearances, encounters, misunderstandings... and a desire that unites everyone: that of finding Tenderness however, wherever, with whomever."
Alfredo Sanzol
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Tenderness is a romantic adventure comedy, written in Shakespearean style, that speaks of the impossibility of protecting oneself from the pain that love produces and of the importance of tenderness in the life of a human being. Not even parents can protect their children from the suffering of life because that endangers the experience of a full life. It tells the story of a somewhat magician queen and her two princess daughters who travel in the Invincible Armada forced by Philip II to marry in marriages of convenience with English nobles once the invasion of England was successfully achieved. Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always conditioned her life and taken away her freedom, so she is not willing to let her daughters have the same fate as her. When the Armada passes near an island that the Queen considers deserted, it creates a storm that sinks the ship in which they are traveling. Her plan is to stay and live on that island with her daughters, never to see another man 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 never to see another woman in their lives. As soon as the queen and the two princesses discover that they are not alone, they dress as men to protect themselves. And here begin the adventures, the mess, the falling in love, and the confusions. Alfredo Sanzol has created the show from a work 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 did improvisation workshops with the actors. La Ternura by Alfredo Sanzol is a production of Teatro de La Abadía and Teatro de La Ciudad. |
REPORT
THE VERDEMAR LUMBERJACK
Paco Deniz
THE EMERALD QUEEN
Elena González
THE SALMON PRINCESS
Natalia Hernandez
THE BLUE-SKY LUMBERJACK
Javier Lara
THE BROWN LUMBERJACK
Juan Antonio Lumbreras
THE RUBY PRINCESS
Eva Trancón
ARTISTIC FILE
TEXT AND ADDRESS
Alfredo Sanzol
STAGE SPACE AND COSTUMES
Alejandro Andujar
LIGHTING
Pedro Yagüe
MUSIC
Fernando Velázquez
MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT
Beatriz Jaén
SCENERY AND COSTUME ASSISTANT
Almudena Bautista
ALFREDO SANZOL
The work of Alfredo Sanzol (Pamplona, 1972) is characterized by the use of a sense of humor and the search for his own formal style with which he poses the problems of 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), Esperando a Godot (2013, Centro Dramático Nacional), Aventura! (2012, T de Teatre and Teatre Lliure), La importancia de llamarse Ernesto ( 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), La cabeza del Bautista ( 2009, Centro Dramático Nacional), Sí, pero no lo soy ( 2008, Centro Dramático Nacional), Risas y Destrucción ( 2007, Producciones del Callao) and Como los griegos (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, Sociedad General de Autores (SGAE), Festival de Teatro Clásico de Olite, La ECAM, Centro Dramático Nacional, Juneda inCursió and Teatro de la Abadía/Teatro de la Ciudad. In 2014 he directed the II Laboratorio de Escritura Teatral de la Fundación SGAE, and created, together with Miguel del Arco and Andrés Lima, Teatro de la Ciudad.
He has been awarded the Max Award for Best Author 2011 for Delicadas; the Max Award for Best Author 2012 for Días Estupendos; the Ceres-Festival de Mérida Award for Best Author 2012 for En La Luna; the Max Award for Best Author 2013 for En La Luna; and the Max Award for Best Show 2013 for En La Luna. In 2016, he received the Culture Award from the Community of Madrid. He is a founding member of the Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España.
Date
October 26, 2017
Time
19:30