Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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October 11, 2025

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Programmed at the 2018 Festival Classic Theater of London in London, England. A faithful adaptation of Calderón de la Barca's text, it has received the Best Play Award from the Network of Theaters of Castilla La Mancha, the Best Play nomination from the Junta de Andalucía, and the Best Actor Award at the Oropesa International Festival. The play has been performed in over 150 performances, including at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and in 2016 in France and Latin America.

Madrid, 1648. Madrid's theaters have been closed by royal order, and actors are being persecuted. The proclamations of the bailiffs announcing the ban lead us into the basement of the famous Taberna del Turco, where a young actor performs the first verses of La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream). We soon learn that this is Sebastián de Prado, a famous comedian of the time. In addition to performing almost all of Calderón's verses, Sebastián will introduce us to Golden Age Madrid and his theatrical life. He will tell us how the comedy corrals and the "la legua" companies worked, the ins and outs of the play's premiere, anecdotes about its author. He will even show us a family bundle and ask for our help using the props.

"The meaning of Bululú cannot be understood; it can only be felt. Calderón was never so palpable, so real, so worldly, and so current as through the words of Jesús Torres. Classical theater has come down from the altars, and Jesús has placed it in a tavern where fools and clever people, children and adults, skeptics and acolytes, drink from the same jug and raise the same pitcher: that of the emotion and satisfaction of seeing a great actor give his all."

See more information about the show in the attached file.

• Genre: Drama. Style: Tragic-Comic. Running Time: 75 min.
• Show included in the programming of the Scenic Circuits of Castilla y León.