El cante jondo

A monologue with flamenco song and dance at the Teatro Español in Madrid, directed by Eduardo Vasco and inspired by the lecture Juego y teoría del duende, which Federico García Lorca delivered in Buenos Aires.

This production, directed by Eduardo Vasco, former director of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, is a monologue with flamenco song and dance built from the lecture Juego y teoría del duende, which Federico García Lorca delivered in Buenos Aires in 1933. Ginés García Millán delivers the monologue, joined on stage by the flamenco dancer Pastora Galván and the singers Aurora Vargas, Antonio Reyes and Jesús Méndez.

The production incorporates excerpts from two other lectures by the poet: Importancia histórica y artística del primitivo canto andaluz llamado « cante jondo » (1922) and Arquitectura del cante jondo (1930). It combines historical documents, live music and texts by Lorca to reflect on duende, the force the poet associated with the essence of artistic creation, and on art as an experience marked by emotion, risk and truth. It is not presented as a biography but as a journey through Lorca's thought and his relationship with flamenco.

It is presented as a tribute to the relationship between Lorca and flamenco, a dialogue between poetry and music. The Teatro Español is a venue whose programming focuses mainly on contemporary theatre, and this production, framed within world music, comes to its Madrid stage.