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Can you imagine being able to hear the great episodes of history told in a cabaret style?

Can you imagine the great revolutions of the early 20th century being narrated to the rhythm of flamenco heel tapping and castanets?

Can you imagine surviving the Russian Civil War between the Tsarists and the Bolsheviks as a variety artist?

We can discover all of this in the stage adaptation of Manuel Chaves Nogales ' monumental novel "The Master Juan Martínez Who Was There."

Chaves Nogales is leading one of the most striking literary revival discoveries to have recently taken place in Spain.

The publication of his complete works has generated an enormous amount of passion and admiration for a writer who did not occupy his rightful place.

The uniqueness of his work, The Master Juan Martínez Who Was There, connects him with the great tradition of the Spanish picaresque. The echoes of Lazarillo, those of the exemplary novels of Cervantes, of Quevedo, continue to fuel a marvelous look at history and the capacity for survival of indirect protagonists who suffer the dictates of the powerful.

Our "The Maestro Juan Martínez Who Was There" has become a stage score at the service of a prodigious actor: Miguel Rellán.

Miguel Rellán will show us a side of his acting career that we haven't seen before. He will reveal the exceptional variety artist within him.

Juan Martínez, a Madrid native born in Burgos, a dancer and variety artist, and his partner Sole, embark on a unique life and work adventure just days before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Istanbul, Bucharest, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiev will serve as the backdrop for the most harrowing episodes of the Great War. The cabarets, casinos, and boarding houses of these cities will be the places where our protagonists will try to survive.

The maestro Juan Martínez, around whom the biography of Vicente Escudero, a flamenco artist from Valladolid, seems to converge. One of the great transformers of the language of flamenco. A friend of Picasso and Miró, he created a new flamenco. His work, his freedom, his life have helped us create our Juan Martínez.

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

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

Event website : https://octubre.pro/fichas/el-maestro-juan-martinez-que-estaba-alli/

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  • Postal address Teatro Principal - Plaza del Mío Cid, s/n. municipality of Burgos . NaN. Burgos