Poeta [perdido] en Nueva York

Monologue written, directed and performed by Jesús Torres, which recreates Federico García Lorca's stay in New York in 1929 through his verses and letters. A contemporary theatre production by El Aedo Teatro.

Written, directed and performed by Jesús Torres, this production by El Aedo Teatro is staged as a monologue based on the poetry collection that Federico García Lorca wrote during his stay in New York and on the letters he sent to his family from the city. The play confronts the poet with himself in his search for a voice of his own, while the action moves to New York of the period and delves into the intimacy of an author who has not yet found his path.

The verses, written in 1929, explore the relationship between human beings and nature, freedom, spirituality and the dehumanisation of progress. Lorca witnessed first-hand the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the bitterness it left in American society. Among the texts that make up the work are the poems El rey de Harlem, Ciudad sin sueño and the Oda a Walt Whitman, alongside letters and the piece El público, which alternate verse and prose to draw a realistic portrait of that era.

After his stay in New York, Lorca travelled to Cuba and later gave a lecture at the Residencia de Señoritas de Madrid to order his poems and explain their origin. The poet, murdered in 1936, did not live to see this work published. The production is staged at the Teatro Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa, in Madrid, a venue focused on theatre programming.