In its 36th edition, the Region of Madrid’s Autumn Festival returns to its original format; nine years after its change of season and temporality, and it will be held from 15 November to 2 December 2018. Returning to Autumn once again gives it the identity, place and recognition of a unique event. It will be a complete challenge to create the excitement, adrenaline and emotion in the viewers that is experienced in great international stage productions.
The 36th Autumn Festival has wanted to open itself up to discovering new perceptions. In its commitment to exploring new territories and artists, once again this year, it wants to invite the entire public to discover extraordinary scenic experiences. Its line-up includes 21 shows and 5 creation laboratories from companies and artists with 15 different nationalities. In this 36th edition, new venues have joined the festival’s family and the representations and activities will take place in 9 leading scenic spaces within the Region of Madrid: the Teatros del Canal, the Teatro de La Abadía, the Sala Cuarta Pared, the Teatro Pradillo, El Pavón Teatro Kamikaze, La Casa Encendida, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Casa de América and the Corral de Comedias de Alcala de Henares.
As another display of the interaction between different artistic disciplines, the photographer Juan Baraja has been responsible for capturing the essence of this new festival. His photos, which illustrate the pieces of this 36th edition, are a tribute to theatre and an invitation to discover its ins and outs; those spaces that are invisible before our eyes, but always essential; those spaces where dreams are made behind the scenes.
Under the artistic direction of Carlos Aladro, the 36th Autumn Festival wants to be a meeting place where things just do not stop happening. This is not just for the general public, but also for all types of professionals. This will be an event that brings exhibition, research, training and active dialogue together with a complete, extended programme that proposes workshops, conversations among creators, artistic residencies, master classes, presentations and meetings. The Autumn Festival is a tool that entices exploration, analysis, debate, mediation and experimentation. A meeting point for audiences and viewers. And, of course, it is a space that gives international visibility to Spanish and Madrileño performing arts.
True to its vocation of programming great artists and of also promoting new creators and companies, the Autumn Festival presents this 36th edition as a large, diverse, synesthetic, open and critical space. Its singularity and capacity to explore and surprise are two of the central pillars upon which the programme is based. With very different formats and diverse scenic visions and languages, the 36th Autumn Festival seeks to be an invitation to surprise, fun, excitement and curiosity.
Its line-up includes names as essential as Simon Stone, Joël Pommerat, Sergio Blanco, Krystian Lupa and Forced Entertainment. Its programme has aimed to give visibility to the work of young artists from Madrid and Spain (Alberto Cortés, Titzina, Pablo Fidalgo, Julia de Castro and María Folguera); highlight extraordinary and relevant creators from all over Spain (Elena Córdoba, Cuqui Jerez and Adolfo Simón); provide a stable presence of Latin America as an essential reference for our culture (Sergio Blanco and Marco Layera with his Teatro La Re-Sentida); and bring Madrid closer to the work of great European figures that are unknown here (Łukasz Twarkowski, Nassim Soleimanpour, Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas). We will also find family friendly pieces (Il n’est pas encore minuit… and Le Petit Chaperon Rouge); accessible theatre (with Stopgag Dance Company and El Pont Flotant) and nods to the best universal literature (Medea, by Euripides; The President and Eve of Retirement, by Thomas Bernhard; and fragments of text from Saint Teresa of Jesus). Moreover, the 36th Autumn Festival will investigate unexplored territory, in its ambition to expand visions of art and the world and share them with our audiences.
In this 36th edition, the Region of Madrid’s Autumn Festival invites you to dive together into unexplored territories, and to share new visions of the art and the world.
