Ensayo Abierto

Comedy show in which a group of young actors rehearse Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, and face a series of mishaps during the session. It is staged at the Arlequín Gran Vía Teatro in Madrid.

A group of young actors gets together to rehearse Lysistrata, Aristophanes' comedy, and during the session a series of mishaps begins to disrupt the planned work. The show maintains that this play, written more than two thousand years ago, remains entirely relevant, both for its rejection of war and for the way it looks at the role of women in society.

The humour is raw and is applied to an even harsher reality: war, one of the evils that humanity has not managed to eradicate. The approach brings the classic text into the present, so that it is hard to tell the ancient from the contemporary.

The staging is irreverent, essential and stripped back, and combines music and poetry throughout the performance.