Until the next July 12, the Teatro de la Abadía (Fernández de los Ríos street, 42) presents the play El jardín quemado (The Burned Garden), by Juan Mayorga.
With an outstanding cast of actors: Adriana Ozores, Loreto Mauleón, Jesús Barranco, Miguel Hermoso, Joserra Iglesias and Mariano Llorente, the artistic director of La Abadía, Juan Mayorga premieres this play, one of the great and most beloved texts of his dramatic corpus, which is his fourth show written and directed by him since he took over the direction of this theater in 2022. A play that reflects on the unpredictability of time and the difficulty of judging past events.
In The Burned Garden, two fundamental issues of Mayorga’s theater appear. On one hand, memory and its difficulty in judging the past. “The past -Mayorga has said- is unpredictable, it is no less open than the future and it contains questions that can endanger the present that risks observing it.” On the other hand, imagination -and, with it, theater- as an escape route from a harsh, cruel reality, just as it can be for the defeated in a war.
The play tells how during the Spanish Civil War, several healthy men were admitted to the psychiatric sanatorium of San Miguel. Why? Many years later, Garay, the director of the sanatorium, who was already there then, and Benet, her brightest disciple, confront each other around that enigma. Tickets can be purchased at this link.