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MEMORY OF ASHES NARRATES THE LIFE OF A 16TH CENTURY WRITER, EDITOR, TRANSLATOR, UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IN CAMBRIDGE, CALLED FRANCISCO DE ENZINAS .

ACCORDING TO RECENT STUDIES, OUR CHARACTER IS THE AUTHOR OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES. WE ALSO OWE TO HIM THE FIRST TRANSLATION AND PRINTING INTO SPANISH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT (SOMETHING THAT WAS PROHIBITED IN HIS TIME), WHICH LEAD TO HIS IMPRISONEMENT BY EMPEROR CHARLES V. THUS BECOMING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE FOR HIS WHOLE LIFE. PERSECUTED BY THE INQUISITION, HE TRAVELED ACROSS HALF OF EUROPE, FRANCE, ENGLAND, GERMANY...

A continuously changing set design will recreate the different environments of the play (the printing press, the imperial court, the prison, etc.). Four actors, constantly on stage, will bring to life around twenty characters. Careful staging, costumes inspired by 16th-century Flemish painting, and contemporary music from the period, played by a viola da gamba and harpsichord, will do the rest.

Genre: Theatre. Style: Multidisciplinary. Duration: 70 min.

Show included in the programming of the Scenic Circuits of Castilla y León.

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  • Postal address Cine-Teatro Castilla (Arévalo) - C/ Los Linajes, 4. municipality of Arévalo . NaN. Ávila