Leyendas nuevas de Zorrilla

New stage proposal by Raúl Losánez that reinterprets characters, settings and plots from the legends of José Zorrilla from a contemporary viewpoint. Three performers and live music bring the piece to life at the Sala Jardiel Poncela.

Leyendas nuevas de Zorrilla draws on some of the characters, settings and plots created by the writer from Valladolid to bring them closer to today's audiences. Raúl Losánez writes the adaptation from texts by José Zorrilla, and Ana Contreras takes on the staging in this world premiere. The piece engages with the tradition of the legend, a genre that, as the production's own premise reminds us, has always changed with each new telling.

The staging focuses on the pleasure of storytelling. Eva Rufo, Jesús Barranco and Raquel Molano play multiple characters in a dynamic, light-hearted theatrical game, accompanied by live music and a constant appeal to the spectator's imagination. The running time is approximately one hour and a quarter.

Zorrilla's command of versification, his novelistic settings, his irony and his ability to sustain narrative tension are traits that the production picks up as it reworks his tales from a contemporary perspective.