Two performances of «Poeta perdido en Nueva York» at the Pedro Muñoz Seca

The Teatro Municipal Pedro Muñoz Seca hosted on Friday, November 6 «Poeta perdido en Nueva York», the production in which Jesús Torres, from El Puerto, combines Federico García Lorca's poetry collection with the letters the Granada-born writer sent to his family from the American city. Torres creates, directs and performs in the work, for which he has received a MAX Award this year. On stage, the monologue recreates the poet's journey to New York in search of the peace he could not find in Madrid, and his encounter with a city sunk in the crash of '29. The show lasts an hour and a half and, through the poems and the letters, reveals the most intimate Lorca, according to Torres himself, who seeks to «bring out the Federico behind Lorca». On Friday there were two performances: one in the morning for secondary school students and another in the afternoon. With them, the actor considers he is giving back to the city «everything it has given me». The production has already been performed in France, Great Britain and Romania, as well as in several Spanish cities, and has around 200 performances scheduled until June.

The theatre's autumn programme continues this Saturday, November 7 with the premiere of «Desde el origen», the new show by the choreographer and dancer from El Puerto Jaime Cala. He will be accompanied by the guitarist Juan Ramón Ortega and by José Peña on palmas and jaleo. As guest artists, the singers Aroa Cala and Nazaret Cala will perform, together with the singers Selu Torres and Wilo del Puerto. Jesús Torres, a graduate in Audiovisual Communication with a master's degree in Theatre and Performing Arts, leads the company El Aedo Teatro and has received, among others, the Premio Autor SGAE 2019 for «Puños de harina» and the Premio Hispanoamericano de Dramaturgia para Jóvenes for «La metamorfosis de Gregor».