La profanación de Don Juan (Delirio de Buñuel

A surrealist-flavoured comedy that draws on fragments of José Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio and views it through the eyes of Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí, with Maruja Mallo and Margarita Manso as its protagonists.

This in-house theatre production reinterprets José Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio using fragments of its text. Juan Mairena directs and wrote the free version, approaching the classic through the eyes of three creators who had not yet become celebrated figures: Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí.

The production is set in the Residencia de Estudiantes, where these young men staged a surrealist readaptation of the myth. Buñuel directed, while Lorca and Dalí contributed boundless imagination, so that the original romanticism became a game of aesthetic provocation in which humour, the unconscious and experimentation carried great weight. Around them moved Maruja Mallo, Pepín Bello, Margarita Manso and José Moreno Villa, in a group of friends that mixed improvised rehearsals, debates about Freud and constant jokes.

The show also dwells on the more personal side of that group: their hopes, their insecurities and their desire to imagine another way of looking at the world. Maruja Mallo and Margarita Manso are at the heart of the story, and the production champions the role of both as key creators of the Generation of '27.