El Otro del 27

Mariano Peña embodies the poet Rafael de León in this contemporary theatre production with music, which champions his poetic work beyond the coplas that made him famous as a lyricist.

Rafael de León, a poet of the Generación del 27 best known as the author of lyrics for major coplas, is the focus of this show. The play reclaims his literary side through his poetic anthology, and Juan Valderrama has set to music a selection of unpublished poems.

Mariano Peña plays Rafael de León and shows his different sides: the aristocrat and the bohemian, the señorito and the intellectual, the successful lyricist and the silenced poet. Alongside him, Juan Valderrama brings Federico García Lorca to life, with whom the protagonist had a close relationship in his youth. Roko, Carlos de Austria and Guillem Calafí embody figures of the era such as Margarita Xirgu, Imperio Argentina, Concha Piquer, the maestro Quiroga and Miguel de Molina.

The production is written and directed by Santiago Sánchez and Víctor Lucas, and combines spoken word and music on stage. It focuses on the poet's youth, his encounters with artists of his time and the contrast between his brilliant career as a lyricist and his silenced place in the history of Spanish poetry.