El Agua Detenida

El agua detenida is a contemporary reimagining of the world of Federico García Lorca, centred on his male characters. Miguel Poveda makes his acting debut in this play, written and directed by Ceres Machado.

This production reinterprets the world of Federico García Lorca through the eyes of his men. Juan, Pepe el Romano and Leonardo, from Yerma, La casa de Bernarda Alba and Bodas de sangre, share a single poetic space: a rural setting around an old well. There, desire, guilt and passion intertwine, and a figure of the moon watches the action and drives the outcome towards tragedy.

The text presents masculinity as the axis of the play: what emotional, social and cultural structures lead these characters to act as they do, in the face of women who refuse to keep silent. The staging combines text-based theatre, poetry, movement and flamenco roots to build a language of its own, in which the symbolic and the human coexist without separating.

Miguel Poveda, a flamenco singer, makes his acting debut in this production, joined in the cast by Pedro Moreno Orta, María Vílches and More Orta. The play premieres nationally at the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank, a venue whose programming focuses above all on theatre.