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October 23, 2025
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Carmen Martin Gaite is an iconic figure of great importance in 20th-century Spanish literature. She skillfully cultivated all literary genres: short stories, plays, novels, essays, and poetry. She was also a fan of making collages and a great fan of dancing.

Carmiña was a role model for women of her generation and continues to be one for those of subsequent generations. She had a strong character, a strong personality, and an unwavering determination, great style, and a tremendous thirst for freedom.

Azar Teatro presents The Neverending Tale as a tribute to this incredible writer from Castile and León, recreating her figure and selecting different fragments from her extensive work, as if it were a short literary biography, which she herself tells us. This literary biography is also peppered with the most important events of her life (her relationship with Sánchez Ferlosio, her husband, and other writers of the time), the loss of her two sons, her relationship with her daughter, her refusal to become a member of the RAE (Royal Academy of Fine Arts), and so on.

The projection of her collages during the monologue and the music she loved playing in the background will be the perfect accompaniment to the portrait of a writer who opened many paths closed to women in those years, and of a novelist and essayist who discovered the multiple nuances hidden in seemingly dull existences.

Version/adaptation: Mercedes Asenjo
Performer: Mercedes Asenjo
Directed by: Javier Esteban
Production: Teatro del Azar

Additional Information

Location: Auditorium. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.

Address and map location

  • Postal address Biblioteca de Castilla y León - Plaza de la Trinidad, 2. municipality of Valladolid . NaN. Valladolid