Golpe a golpe

Stage production tracing the memory of Antonio Machado through the songs Joan Manuel Serrat dedicated to him, performed live by singer-songwriter Ismael Serrano at the Teatro Infanta Isabel.

This show takes as the engine of its plot the songs that Joan Manuel Serrat dedicated to Antonio Machado, among them ‘Cantares’, ‘La saeta’ and ‘A un olmo seco’. The staging, co-directed by José Velasco and Paco Gámez, brings these pieces to life live through the performance of singer-songwriter Ismael Serrano, the protagonist of the production, and combines them with the poet's verses.

In the final stretch of his life, Machado crosses the Pyrenees with his mother bound for exile after the Spanish Civil War. From that border, memory takes him back to the courtyard of his Sevillian childhood, to his youth alongside his brother Manuel, to his years of training and teaching, and to the brief, intense love for Leonor, whose loss shaped his sensibility.

The story also includes his friends, the turbulent Spain of his time and his platonic relationship with Guiomar. It is a production about a life that unfolds between the private and the historical, produced by Okapi Producciones, which continues the line of work begun with Lorca por Saura and Para la libertad.