Festival 2026

Play: You have wrecked my fairtale (Ya me has tocado el cuento).

When: Tuesday 20^th October at 7:30 pm

Company: Evoca Entertainment

Writer: Olivia Lara Lagunas

Production: Evoca Entertainment and Arteatroz

Cast: Alejandro Chaparro (Beast), Álvaro Quintana (Felipe), Kevin de la Rosa (Florián) and Víctor de la Fuente (Enrique)

Technical Director: María Uruñuela

Please note: This performance is in Spanish and will include English surtitles.

Running time: 90 mins followed by a 20 minute Q&A with an English-Spanish interpreter

Age guidance: 14+

Venue: 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR   View map

Synopsis:

Princesses Aurora, Belle, Cinderella, and Snow White have escaped to the Real World. Left behind, the princes set out to bring them back—but when princes need help, who can they turn to?

Play: La Celestina

When: Wednesday 21^st October at 7:30 pm

Company: Bambalina Teatre Practicable (Bambalina Titelles SL)

Writer: Adaptación de Jaume Policarpo

Director: Jaume Policarpo

Production: Marisol Limiñana and Ruth Atienza

Cast: Estela Dominguez and Pau Gregori

Technical Team: Miguel Blasco

Please note: This performance is in Spanish and will include English surtitles.

Running time: 75 mins followed by a 20 minute Q&A with an English-Spanish interpreter

Age guidance: 16+

Venue: 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR   View map

Premio De Las Artes Escénicas 2018 A Mejor Adaptación. Premio De Las Artes Escénicas 2018 A Mejor Dirección. Premio De Las Artes Escénicas 2018 A Mejor Espectáculo. (https://bambalina.es/espectaculos/la-celestina)

Synopsis:

Faced with the current crisis in theatre and exhibition, we embrace a more essential artistic approach, entrusting two performers with staging the tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea. 

Play: Trees Don’t Vote (Los Árboles no Votan)

When: Thursday 22^nd October at 7:30 pm

Writer & Copyright: José Ignacio Tofé

Direction: José Ignacio Tofé

Production: José Ignacio Tofé

Cast: Pedro Cerezo, Elías González, Susana Hernández, Ana Janer

Technical: José Ignacio Tofé

Please note: This performance is in Spanish and will include English surtitles

Running time: 80 mins followed by a 20 minute Q&A with an English-Spanish interpreter

Age guidance: Suitable for all

Venue: 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR   View map

Synopsis:

A regional president is desperate for an electoral game changer. Her advisor and a businessman offer the ideal campaign pledge: a decarbonisation plant that claims to save the planet by removing CO₂ from the air.

Play: Leonora

Directed by: Alberto Conejero

Production: A Teatro del Acantilado production

Cast: Natalia Huarte

Trailer: Click here to watch it

Please note: This performance is in Spanish and will include English surtitles

Running time: 60 mins followed by a 20 minute Q&A with an English-Spanish interpreter

Age guidance: 14+

Venue: 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR   View map

Synopsis:

Leonora is a poetic journey into the world of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, focusing on her youth and years in Spain after the Civil War. Rather than a conventional biography, it evokes fragments of her luminous spirit, resistance, and longing for freedom. Inspired by her diary Memories from Below, the piece explores her artistic awakening, psychiatric violence, and imagination’s power to transcend time.

Festelon Kids Play: Eureka, Pioneras de la Ciencia

When: Saturday 24^th October, 11:30 am

Company: Será Será Theatre

Author: Andrea Holland

Production: Será Será Theatre

Cast: Andrea Holland

Copyright: Andrea Holland

Running time: 45 mins 

Suitable: 6+

Venue: Canada Water Library, Room 3, 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR   View map

Synopsis

Meet Dr. Eureka, a delightfully eccentric scientist surrounded by bubbling test tubes and half-finished inventions. Hidden in her laboratory is her greatest treasure: The Great Book of Women Scientists, filled with the extraordinary stories of brilliant women from Spain and Latin America.

Play: Archipelago (Archipiélago)

When: Saturday 24^th October, 2:30 pm

Directed by: Begoña Caparros

Director Assistant: Patricia Roldán

Production: Begoña Caparros

Cast: Begoña Caparros

Technical Team: Jaime Miñarro/Lokearte

Please note: This performance is in Spanish and will include English surtitles.

Running time: 60 mins followed by a 20 minute Q&A with an English-Spanish interpreter

Age guidance: 18+

Content awareness: Mentions of suicide

Venue: 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR   View map

Synopsis:

Archipelago invites us into the suspended lives of three individuals evicted from their homes. One tenant’s suicide amid imminent eviction prompts the building’s new owners to relocate all tenants to a ship.

Play: If There Ever Was An Us (Si alguna vez hubo un nosotros)

When: Saturday 24^th October, 7:30 pm

Directed by: Ignasi Vidal

Production: Pedro Macarro of La Gran Belleza Producciones

Cast: Félix Gómez and Noemí Ruíz

Technical Team: Hermann Müller, Joaquín Yver

Please note: This performance is in Spanish and will include English surtitles.

Running time: 60 mins followed by a 20 minute Q&A with an English-Spanish interpreter

Age guidance: 13+

Venue: 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR   View map

Synopsis:

Jaime and Marla were once “us.” Now only two voices remain, reaching for each other through memories, reproaches, and silence. On a bare stage, their monologues weave together to reveal a universal truth: two people who loved each other deeply, yet could not save themselves.