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LA PÍCARA JUSTINA , by Francisco López de Úbeda, the first picaresque novel in which the main character is a woman, was printed for the first time in Medina del Campo in 1605, and later that same year in Barcelona.

This play is a fun theatrical adaptation of the novel , where we find a doubly mischievous Justina. Mischievous like Lázaro de Tormes or Guzmán de Alfarache, survivors in a society in crisis, which marginalizes them and in which being mischievous is not a game or a diversion, but a way of surviving, as sometimes happens, in our days, with homeless people, immigrants, or so many people who try to get ahead every day thanks to "picaresque". And mischievous, too, for being a woman and having to survive in a man's world.

In "La pícara Justina" there are many word games, sometimes very crazy, jokes, parodies, so-called hieroglyphics...

SYNOPSIS: Justina was a woman of rare wit, happy memory, loving and cheerful, with a good body, figure and vigor; blue eyes, black hair, aquiline nose and dark skin. Soft-spoken, only one to give nicknames, she was given to reading romance books, on the occasion of some that perhaps her father had a humanist guest who, passing by his inn, left books, humanity and skin in it.

From her maturity, the mischievous Justina remembers her life. First she tells us who her ancestors were, so that we all die of laughter; and having to leave her village without roots or family, she decides to go from pilgrimage to pilgrimage to make a living. On this pilgrimage she meets other mischievous people and characters with whom Justina experiences some funny adventures: students who are tricked, mischievous gamblers, fat waitresses, old witches...

Finally Justina remembers her suitors and her lovers, while she writes about her entire life, which has passed before the viewer.

See more information about the show in the attached file.

Genre: Theatre. Style: Comedy. Duration: 80 min.

Show included in the programming of the Network of Theatres of Castilla y León.

Event website : http://www.fabulariateatro.com

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  • Postal address Teatro Municipal Bergidum (Ponferrada) - Calle Ancha, 15. municipality of Ponferrada . NaN. León