Felipe V

Comedy portraying Felipe V, the first Bourbon to occupy the Spanish throne, as a monarch marked by melancholia, paranoia and a madness that led him to believe he was a frog. A humorous look at a reign laden with expectations.

The premise takes as its starting point the figure of Felipe V, the first king of the House of Bourbon in Spain, who inherited the throne from Carlos II, the Bewitched, the last monarch of the Habsburg dynasty. Building upon that historical foundation, the comedy presents him as a sovereign who dashed the hopes placed in him and who, rather than a Prince Charming arriving from Versailles, turned out to be a batrachian king.

The text compares him to Don Quixote: a man who, from worrying too much and sleeping too little, lost his mind. Among his afflictions, melancholia, depression, paranoia and manic episodes are cited, and the madness best remembered is the one that convinced him he was a frog. The humour relies on that distance between the fairy tale and the reality of the character.

The show is performed at Teatro Lara in Madrid, in a comedy performance designed for anyone who enjoys historical satire and humour concerning figures from the past.