The representation of Federico García Lorca’s ‘Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín’, an erotic alleluia, arrives today at Cicca. Another masterpiece by the Andalusian genius rarely staged.
Perhaps the most unknown text by Lorca, but its undeniable quality, and the sarcastic dramatic turn it represented in the history of Spanish literature, places it among the great masterpieces of the Andalusian genius. To confirm this, one just needs to attend the performance that the Seda production company offers today, Saturday, at 20:00, at the Cicca in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It is the staging of Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, which arrives in the Gran Canaria capital after its performance yesterday at the El Sauzal theatre in Tenerife, and as part of the programming of the VII International Festival Canarias Artes Escénicas (CAE) 2024.
Manikins
For Lorca, this play was actually a theatre of human manikins that starts in mockery and ends in tragedy. The poet begins writing it in 1922 and considers it finished in 1926. Its premiere was scheduled for February 6, 1929 by the theatre company El Caracol, but during that period, under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, rehearsals and the premiere were halted by the police, and the play was archived in the pornography section of the general security directorate. Finally, it premiered on April 5, 1933 at the Teatro Español under Lorca’s direction.
With this title, the CAE program concludes with regards to Gran Canaria, but continues in Tenerife with two more productions. This is the fourth work that has passed through Cicca from March 1st until today. Four essential titles that, unfortunately, have not received the deserved response from the Gran Canaria public. The first brought Charo López reciting poems by Lorca in Verso a verso. The second was a project by Ay Teatro on five masterpieces by Moliere. And the third was the magnificent Roca negra from last week.
