Maldito bar

A comedy by Manuel Benito, directed by Jacobo Muñoz, that uses a bar as its setting to portray today's Spanish society with sharp humour and a grotesque tone.

This production sets its action in a bar, a microcosm where everyday scenes intersect and gradually interlace. What at first seems a faithful portrait of life at the counter slowly warps until it verges on the absurd and the grotesque, so that the recognisable becomes caricature.

The cast includes Julio Peña and Daniel Vitallé, Paula Mori and Chantal Martín, Paula Colorado and Nacho Laguna, who play a crowd of characters on stage. The contradictions, vices and virtues of society are laid bare through constant irony and caustic humour that plays with highly recognisable situations.

The direction is by Jacobo Muñoz, while Paula Mori composes the music and designs the sound. The play presents itself as a distorted reflection of the country, a funny critique that spares no one.