Theatre with puppets and music, the two main ingredients in the approach Ana Zamora’s company’s takes to Federico García Lorca’s classic. Her love and interest in puppets started when she was a child, when she learned to puppeteer and to play the piano. This love never ended and her first pieces as an artist were for puppets. Together with Manuel de Falla, she created the Andalusian Puppet Theatre project and would end up writing a trilogy whose star was the character inspired by national hero Don Cristóbal Polichinela, recognised by his shrill voice, and executed with traditional puppet language, defining the character’s identity since his origins long in the past in Commedia dell’Arte. The last of these three works dedicated to Lorca is the Retablillo de don Cristóbal. Nao d’amores is a company that specialises in reviving primitive theatre and giving it life, the foundations of the entire tradition that started at the end of the Middle Ages. Their work is always based on deep respect for tradition and a deep theoretical knowledge of what they undertake, but without losing that feel of contemporary theatrical play. This time, they have created an authentic Lorca fiesta that mixes the old and the contemporary, a beautiful and poetic experiment, festive and irreverent. They wanted to dedicate the show to the memory of Julio Michel, a puppeteer, master and friend of Zamora and her tribe, and the man responsible for Segovia’s magnificent Titirimundi Festival, who collaborated on the production of this piece.