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July 30, 2025
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The Palencia Provincial Council and the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language are scheduling a performance of the puppet show "Manual de Cervantes. For losers aged 6 to 106" on July 30th at 7:30 p.m. at the Jorge Manrique Performing Arts Center in Paredes de Nava . This performance is by the Pie Izquierdo company, written and directed by Esther Pérez Arribas. This performance is part of the Palencia Provincial Council's summer cultural program, Allegrissimo .

The play is a fun approach to the life of Miguel de Cervantes based on the motives and concerns that made his work a social chronicle of the time and which are reproduced with the intention of investigating current realities. Madness as a position outside of conventions but also as a mental illness and paradigm of the incomprehension and marginalization to which society subjects different people is the reason for this comedy, based on the premise that humor is an effective tool to deal with the most serious issues.

Aimed at people aged six and over, the scene is made up of a large pop-up book that creates scenes with each turn of the page in which to play with puppets and project shadows. The lighting is abundant in the manual nature of the set-up and forms part of the scene as an ancient and artisanal system that refers to the beginnings of theatre, before electricity existed. Its pages create different scenes as the pages are turned, on which Esther Pérez Arribas manipulates the puppets, which, in the form of fruits and vegetables, embody Miguel de Cervantes himself, as well as many other characters.

Event website : https://www.ilcyl.com/