Cabaret The Secret Show

A reinterpretation in the style of lyric cabaret of La orgía dorada, the 1928 zarzuela that Pedro Víllora adapts as playwright for the main hall of the Teatro Fernán Gómez.

This show is based on the zarzuela premiered in 1928, with libretto by Pedro Muñoz Seca, Tomás Borrás and Pedro Pérez Fernández and music by Jacinto Guerrero and Julián Benlloch, a work almost forgotten beyond its number Soldadito español. Pedro Víllora, who is responsible for the dramaturgy, transforms it into a cabaret that revives that score and combines it with reinvented cuplés and unpublished songs.

The original story is set during the Ibero-American Exhibition of Seville in 1929 and follows a playwright whose text is rejected, alongside a group of characters who arrive from the countryside and become entangled in a chain of deceit. With irony, the work portrays a society marked by speculation, crime, prostitution and the power of money. This version transposes those tensions to present-day frauds, from the age-old scams to the deceptions that circulate on social networks and in digital environments, and becomes a satire on the dominance of capital.

On stage, fragments of zarzuela, musical numbers and feathers and sequins alternate, with an ironic, light tone that addresses the audience continuously. The production plays with the codes of the genre without giving up the critical reflection present in the original.