Tantra en Carabanchel

A comedy about three men who find themselves at a Tantra workshop in the back room of a bar in Carabanchel, Madrid, where friendship and new masculinities become the heart of the humour.

Tantra en Carabanchel sets the action in the back room of a neighbourhood bar, surrounded by crates of beer and a television showing Atlético matches. There, a bar owner who prefers to keep out of things, a man who knows the theory of life but struggles to put it into practice and a young man who seems to have everything under control end up caught up in a Tantra workshop that none of them had signed up for.

Leading the workshop is a teacher who is as self-assured as he is improvised, and who tries to steer the group towards a spiritual and emotional connection. Progress is uneven: resistance, misunderstandings and unexpected confessions shape the course of the story. The show reflects on how men relate to one another and on new masculinities, always through humour.

The title places the story in Carabanchel, and the back room of that bar serves as the setting for an unexpected connection between the characters. The production is staged at Arlequín Gran Vía Teatro, in Madrid.