Full Pantomime, at the López de Ayala in May

Pantomime Full, El Arrebato or Inmanol Arias will pass through the López de Ayala theater as part of the program it has prepared for this spring. More than 30 shows ranging from humor, theater, music or dance in April, May and June.

In the music section, El Arrebato resumes his tour with the reissue of his album, the artist presents ‘+Abrazos’, with new collaborations. It will be May 7. He will also be back on stage on the stage in Badajoz DePedro, after his tour with the show dedicated to children «Erase una vez», returns live to present his new album, ‘Máquina de piedad’. This event is scheduled for May 21

The list of musical events is completed by the XXXIX Badajoz Iberian Music Festival and the Current Music Cycle, organized by the Badajoz Philharmonic Society and the CNDM, which will bring the Clammy Ensemble on April 29.

The humor section is completed throughout May and June by the shows of Pantomime Full with ‘In his head it was spectacular’ in May and in June Ismael Lemais and La Kiskillosa in ‘How I met my mother-in-law’.

As for dance, World Dance Day is celebrated precisely in April, and for this purpose, ‘With perspective’ directed by María Lama has been organized on Thursday, May 5th. The entire collection will go to the Red Cross in aid of Ukraine. And in May, on the 27th, the Escuela Danza Cristina Rosa presents Retornos.

In addition, the Badajoz dance academies complete the program in June with the participation of 20 academies that celebrate the end of the year with festivals in which their students participate.

Theater

In the theater section there will be about 12 performances, including those of the Family Theater program, which has the collaboration of the La Caixa Foundation. Next Sunday, May 22, it’s the turn of ‘Little brains’ by Francis J. Quirós from Extremadura. Family theater play in the television key of a program of scientific experiments with games, where scientific popularization and humor are mixed to arouse the curiosity of the little ones while they learn and discover the world of science and the Universe.

In April, ‘Bodas de Sangre’ will be performed, a theatrical and dance version of this Lorca classic by Artextrema productions directed by Pedro Luis López Bellot with live music. In May, another classic, this time from the Golden Age, ‘Among Bobos is the game’, Zorrilla’s masterpiece, model of the caricature of the grotesque provincial. Another of the theatrical productions will be the one made by Teatro Abrego ‘Máquina de embody’, a performative work in one act that explores the paradox and violence of relationships between human beings.

A classic, in this case by Miguel Murillo, ‘The teachers’ by the Contigo theater company organized by the Badajoz Contigo Cultural Association for the benefit of the Extremeña Oncology Association. From there to the intrigue of ‘Tarántula’ with performances by Armando del Río, Laia Alemany and Fernando Vaquero; or the presence of another classic on this occasion from the 20th century with the best-known text by Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, starring Imanol Arias on the cruelty of capitalism on May 20.

Other activities that will be developed will be the return of the theater for schoolchildren during the Book Fair in May.

We will have the premiere of the latest play by the Suripanta theater company from Extremadura. It will be on Wednesday, June 1 with ‘Esperando la carroza’ by the Uruguayan playwright Jacobo Lansgner. A great choral comedy in which the author chisels out archetypal characters full of truth guided by cynicism, pettiness and falsehood in their relationships, offering us an acid critique of the family and the value we give to the elderly.

Two LGTBI-themed works: On Friday, June 3, within the programming of the Los Palomos Festival, Dear friend. Waiting for Elena Francis, by Miguel Murillo. A crazy comedy from the 80s for the freedom to be and feel. And on Saturday, June 4, Strawberry and Chocolate, theatrical version of the film with the same title that celebrates 25 years since its premiere. It is a song against intolerance, and promotes respect for difference.

Summer terrace

The López de Ayala summer terrace will once again focus activities in June with concerts whose program will be completed in the coming months.

The programming of the Department of Culture of the City Council of Badajoz with the projections of the Cinema Club, complete the section of cinema in the López de Ayala that will offer three projections in April and May.