Festival 2025

Concert: Flamenco Meets Maqam (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Tuesday 28^th October at 7:30 pm

Author: Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde

Director: Lourdes Fernandez & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde

Cast: konscantinos Glynos, Demi Garcia Sabat, Lourdes Fernandez & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde

Company: Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde

Technical team: Ayden Yoo

Suitable for all ages

Running Time: 90 min (Followed by a Q&A)

With an interval

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP  View map

Synopsis:

Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde and Baha Yektin alongside Lourdes Fernandez and Demi Garcia Sabat merge cultures, as East meets West in a harmonious collusion. Their combination of Spanish guitar, Arabic oud and foot work does not come as a surprise. 

Play: Bodas de Sangre (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Wednesday 29^th October at 7:30 pm

Company: Projecte Ingenu

Author: Federico García Lorca

Copyright: BLOOD WEDDING version by Projecte Ingenu (dramatic adaptation and music) registered with SGAE (Spain).

Director: Marc Chornet Artells

Cast: Marina Alegre Silva, Neus Pàmies Juárez, Mireia Sala Areste, Xavier Torra Xuriguera

Technical team: Lluís Serra (Lighting), Projecte Ingenu (Scenography), Laura Sanz (Costumes), Anna Pérez Moya (Movement)

Music: Gerard Marsal, Neus Pàmies y Mireia Sala

Suitable for 12+

Running Time: 90 min (Followed by a Q&A in English and Spanish. )

No interval

Play in Spanish. Subtitles in English will be available.

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP View map

Synopsis:

From Projecte Ingenu, we love Lorca. We feel that by representing him we connect with something deep, something that comes from afar—atavistic, ancestral. Precisely for this reason, we propose a new version of Blood Wedding where we give space to the word and to the body that sustains it. Nothing more.

Musical recital : Las Manos, una historia frente al piano (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Thursday 30^th October at 7:30 pm

Company: Jorge Bedoya

Suitable for 12+

Running Time: 90 min (Followed by a Q&A. )

No interval

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP View map

Synopsis:

“Las Manos” is a monologue that intricately interlaces Jorge Bedoya’s musical pieces into a shared voyage with the audience. In this captivating performance, he skilfully traverses the realms of piano and spoken words, seamlessly blending humour and drama. Life’s dual facets, akin to two sides of a coin, unfold on the stage.

Play: Dos tronos Dos reinas (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Friday 31^st October at 8:00 pm

Company:El tio Caracoles

Author: Pepe Cibrián Campoy

Director: Nicolás Perez Costa

Cast: Nacho Guerreros, Nicolás Perez Costa

Technical team:  Juan Ignacio González, Miguel Ángel Chulia

Suitable for all ages

Running Time: 85 min (Followed by a Q&A in English and Spanish. )

No interval

Play in Spanish. Subtitles in English will be available.

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP View map

Synopsis:

Two queens, two kingdoms… The fight for a throne. An imaginary encounter that never happened. A postponed death sentence. The femininity and masculinity of power through two iconic women: Elizabeth I of England and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland.

Recital: Poemas Musicalizados (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Saturday 1^st November, 1:00 pm – 2.00 pm

Company: Concha García y Marisa Calero

Author: Concha García, Marisa Calero

Cast: Concha García, Marisa Calero

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NPView map

In Spanish. Subtitles in English will be available.

Suitable for all ages

Synopsis

 A constellation of some thirty poems will be given voice—verses by the authors that honor nature as the shared heartbeat of our planet—woven together with live music, so that word and sound flow as one.

Play: Sub Titles Over (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Saturday 1^st November 3:00 pm

Company: Mad, Who?

Author: Marina Cusí Sànchez

Director: Megan Farquhar

Cast: Marina Cusí Sànchez

Technical team: Shannon Houghton

Suitable for +12

Running Time: 50 minutes followed by a Q&A in English & Spanish

Play in Catalan, with English subtitles

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP View map

Synopsis of the play:

A multilingual one-woman show exploring democracy, state censorship, and the manipulative power of translation. Set against the backdrop of the Catalan referendum for independence on the 1st of October 2017, the performance unfolds through the eyes of two young anti-fascist activists defending a polling station.

Comedy show: Ignacio Lopez (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Saturday 1^st November 5:00 pm

Suitable for 14+

Running Time: 60 min followed by a Q&A in English with a Spanish interpreter.

Show in English

No interval

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP  View map

Synopsis:

Moving to the UK from Mallorca Spanish/Welsh comedian Ignacio Lopez quickly made a name for himself as a charismatic, rock-solid headliner; a one man armada of hilarity.

Play: A fuego (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Saturday 1^st November 8:00 pm

Company: La Bella Otero

Author: Pablo Macho Otero

Director: Emma Arquillué y Pablo Macho Otero

Producer: Mola Produccions con la colaboración de Institut Català d’Empreses Culturals ICEC y Amici Miei Produccions

Cast: Pablo Macho Otero

Technical team: Santiago Aguilera Velasco

Suitable for +14

Running Time: 60 minutes followed by a Q&A in English & Spanish

Play in Spanish.Subtitles in English will be available.

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP View map

Synopsis:

In this monologue, written entirely in verse and brimming with satire, wordplay, and metatheatrical twists, we witness how the protagonist’s fascination with the historical figure of Herostratus gradually turns into an obsession—driving him to commit a crime worthy of his infamous idol.

Concert: Éxtasis Místico (Followed by a Q&A)

When: Sunday 2^nd November 7:00 pm

Company: AURIC

Author: Paula Rodriguez, based on the texts of Santa Teresa de Jesús, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ana Caro de Mallén, María de Zayas and Sor Ana San Bartolomé

Director: Paula Rodriguez

Musicians: Paula Rodriguez and Arthur Astier

Technical team: Enrique Muñoz

Suitable for 12+

Running Time: 60 min (Followed by a Q&A)

No interval

Venue: St John’s Hoxton, Pitfield St, London, N1 6NP  View map

Synopsis:

 Mystical Ecstasy immerses audiences in the mystic works of 17th-century Ibero-American female writers such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Santa Teresa de Jesús, Ana Caro y María de Zayas, among others, through a selection of texts and poems.