El amor enamorado

A mythological comedy by Lope de Vega adapted by the Joven Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, directed by Marta Pazos and staged at the Teatro de la Comedia in Madrid.

The production adapts a comedy by Lope de Vega in which the gods of Olympus meddle in the lives of mortals. The action takes place in a pastoral and mythological setting and follows the nymph Jacinta, who devotes herself to hunting and is determined not to fall in love. Her refusal irritates Venus, who commissions her son Cupid to make her fall in love, while the shepherd Silvio, who is in love with her, watches as everything becomes complicated.

The production is directed by Marta Pazos, who received the Galician national culture award in 2024, and the dramaturgy is by Brenda Escobedo. When Cupid fires his arrows, a chain of crossed loves and confusion breaks out: those who loved one person come to love another, and the god Apollo also ends up in love with Jacinta. The play reflects on the power of falling in love, the tension between freedom and desire, and the wounds of jealousy and of unrequited love.