- The first session will take place on Saturday, July 20 at 8:00 p.m. at the Municipal Theater of El Entrego in San Martín del Rey Aurelio.
- Tickets can be booked free of charge online.
The parable of coal premieres in Asturias this Saturday, July 20 at 8:00 pm at the Teatro Municipal de El Entrego in San Martín del Rey Aurelio. Free tickets can be picked up at this link until full capacity is reached.
This representation with historical and documentary background is the first to be promoted by La Térmica Cultural, a cultural center located in Ponferrada, together with the Asturian company Saltantes Teatro. Thus, after the warm welcome and the premiere on July 3 in the Ponferrada facility, the representation begins its tour of other parts of the country and does so with this first step in Asturias. Then it will also be seen in Bembibre in the province of León, Mieres, Avilés and Gijón.
La parábola del carbón is framed in what is called document theater, that is, a work that in its creation process is open and advances according to the contributions and interviews that the creators receive throughout the process of writing and development of the play. Conceived as an unpublished work after a process of documentary research and created expressly for La Térmica Cultural, the performance focuses on the history of the Compostilla I thermal power plant and its impact on Ponferrada, the Bierzo region and the energy history of the country.
In the play Juan, a journalist investigating the effects of coal in his community, returns home after many years. He celebrates a party with his school group and, there, they will relive their childhood, sharing their memories in the coal mountain, in the classes, their problems, anecdotes and many experiences they had never stopped to think about. This meeting will somehow influence Juan's research on the effects of industrialization and generational change.
The cast of The Parable of Coal
Under the direction of Luis Alija, the performers are Alba Cavero, an actress who completed her studies in Textual Interpretation at the RESAD in 2023, collaborates with the company Martes Teatro and is a member of La Cacharra. For his part, Enrique Dueñas, a graduate in Dramatic Art specializing in textual interpretation from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Asturias, and present since 2012 in the performing arts scene, participating in more than thirty theatrical productions, zarzuela and operetta, some of them premiered at festivals such as the International Festival of Classical Theater of Almagro or the Festival de Teatro Lírico Español del Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo. Also integrating the work, Jesús Lavi, actor, director and co-founder of Oniria Teatro and Pedro Fernández, actor with training in Acting at the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Asturias, is currently a student of the specialty of Stage Direction at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid. Finally María Prendes, Asturian actress and graduate in Textual Interpretation at the ESAD of Asturias, has also focused her career as an acting teacher, teaching classes at the ESAD of Asturias, and even directing the Final Scenic Workshop "Emma Goldman" in 2022.
They are joined by Nuria Trabanco as set designer, Azucena Rico as costume designer and Carlos Dávila as technical and lighting chief. In addition, Lucas García is in charge of stage movement and David Varela of the sound space.
About Saltantes Teatro
After graduating in Dramatic Art at the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático del Principado de Asturias, Luis Alija from Bierzo and Nerea Vázquez from Gijón founded the professional theater company Saltantes Teatro in Asturias ten years ago. Their lines of work include the analysis of the tastes of their closest audience, the development of proposals based on the imaginary and creative spirit of Alija himself and popular culture, and the potential of Nerea Vázquez's artistic talent, always related to music, comedy and the narration of contemporary situations adapted to their perception. The company's productions include "El Chigre Menguante" by Maxi Rodríguez, "Misery" by Stephen King, "Moba-Juegos de Guerra" by Luis Alija and "Casting, Diario Musical de Nerea Vázquez".
About La Térmica Cultural
La Térmica Cultural is a new space for culture and leisure located in Ponferrada. Linked to the mining and energy identity, it is a quality cultural project open to citizens, a living space to join and participate with ideas. It is located in the former facilities of the Compostilla I thermal power plant, a place that, 50 years after ceasing its industrial activity, is now reborn as a multipurpose center dedicated to the arts, knowledge and professional training. And the fact is that, just like the energy that was produced in its entrails, culture is in constant transformation and sets societies on the road to the future. Because La Térmica Cultural has been, is and will be Incandescent Culture. Created and managed by the City of Energy Foundation (CIUDEN), through the Institute for Just Transition (ITJ), it is also the starting point for promoting the development of just transition zones.
For more information now available at: www.latermicacultural.es/parabola-carbon.
