Ñaque o de Piojos y Actores

A comedy by Sanchis Sinisterra about two Golden Age comic actors, rogues and hungry, who move between storytelling and performance while reflecting on memory, oblivion and the art of theatre.

Ñaque o de piojos y actores, written by Sanchis Sinisterra, places on stage the shadow of two comic actors of Baroque Spain. Between narration and performance, both reveal the fragility of their condition as actors and the ephemeral nature of their craft, with a humour drawing on the picaresque.

The production interweaves several threads: a fondness for the well-spoken word, the need to remember in the face of oblivion, the friendship between two marginal characters, and an undercurrent of Beckettian existentialism. On stage, Fael García plays Agustín Solano and Juan Cuevas plays Nicolás de los Ríos. The whole portrays how audiences receive theatre and offers a view of Baroque theatricality seen from the ground, through the eyes of wandering strolling players.

The production features set design by Duma Creación Artística, lighting by José Luis Reino, costumes by Indumentaria Abuela Santa Ana, props by Teatro Cachivaches y Ambulantes Teatro, and sound design by Tuti Fernández. It is produced by Teatro Cachivaches y Ambulantes Teatro, in collaboration with the Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro. It is performed at Salto Escénico, a venue whose programming focuses on theatre.