Fuenteovejuna

“Fuenteovejuna” portrays a whole age in just a few hours, a few places, a handful of characters: humiliated and rebellious people, old gentlemen unwilling to lose their future, new gentlemen who are learning to be so. They are all experiencing, in a more or less conscious way, the vertigo of witnessing the death of one order and the birth of another. “The world is ending”, says the knight commander. His certainly is. But which world is being born in the attack on the Casa de la Encomienda?

La Joven Compañía, directed by José Luis Arellano and David R. Peralto, is made up of over forty young artists aged 18 to 25, directed by professionals from the national theatre circuit. It aims to be a working platform for those claiming the place of their generation in society through theatre. The project is aimed at Spanish Language and Literature departments of schools, with a view to bringing theatre to younger audiences as part of their education.