MY CID. MINSTRELSY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

With this new show, José Luis Gómez returns to the Cantar de Mio Cid its true nature and actuality with a refined and very personal interpretation, as a minstrel of the XXI century, accompanied by a pianist.

20 € y 16 €. Special discounts with Youth Card and PIC card (Pamplona Iruña Card).

The greatest epic poem of Hispanic literature is brought to the stage by one of the greatest Spanish actors and directors, recovering its true nature and relevance. Through an unusual work of minstrelsy, José Luis Gómez gives body and voice to the germinal words of Hispanic literature and emits the sound of our medieval language.

The Cantar de Mio Cid is an anonymous poem of oral tradition, divided into three cantos, which narrates the exploits of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in the eleventh century. The original transmission of the Cantar placed the minstrel in front of his audience and, through his words, transported them to live with the hero the course of his story.

JOSÉ LUIS GÓMEZ ON THE PROJECT

"The first time I approached the Cantar del Mio Cid, I did it under the help and vigilance of my colleague at the Royal Spanish Academy, Inés Fernández Ordóñez. For that reading in life that we did in the framework of the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the RAE, I learned to emit the sounds of our medieval language and also to relate to the highly configured and poetic words of this text.

I also realized that the modern reading of the Cantar del Mio Cid, which today is individual and silent, distorts the reception for which the text was created. With this show I intend to give back to Mio Cid its true nature and I hope that, with my minstrelsy work, you will be able to fully appreciate the meaning with which it was conceived. The more life the minstrel's words carry, the more I remember the Russian master who said it well: do not speak for the audience to hear, speak for them to see".

Artistic data

Direction and interpretation: José Luis Gómez

Music: Helena Fernández Moreno

Assistant director: Álvaro Nogales

Dramaturgy: Brenda Escobedo and Jose Luis Gomez

Movement teacher: Mar Navarro

Sound space and video-scene: Jorge Vila

Lighting: Raúl Alonso (AAI)

THE ARTIST

Actor, theater director, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and founding director of La Abadía. After his theatrical training in Germany and Paris, his first projects in Spain are Informe para una Academia, by Kafka, Gaspar, by Handke and La resistible ascensión, by Arturo Ui de Brecht. He received the Best Male Performance Award at Cannes for the film Pascual Duarte by Ricardo Franco and later worked with filmmakers such as Almodóvar, Forman and Saura, among many others. He has directed the Centro Dramático Nacional, together with Nuria Espert and Ramón Tamayo, and the Teatro Español. In Paris he directed La vida es sueño and the opera Carmen, and in Barcelona and Geneva the opera Simon Boccanegra.

In 1995 he created Teatro de La Abadía, where the concerns that have marked his career converge: the word and the body, the legacy and the search for new languages, lifelong learning. His most recent works are Unamuno: venceréis pero no convenceréis, Celestina, El principito and Fin de partida. In collaboration with the RAE, he conceives the cycles La lengua navega a América and Cómicos de la lengua.

He has been awarded, among others, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Arts and Letters (France), the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the National Theater Award.