The Fernán Gómez Theater. Centro Cultural de la Villa, an venue of the Area of Culture, Tourism and Sport, hosts the season's first self-produced work: 'La profanación de Don Juan (delirio de Buñuel, Lorca y Dalí)'. The play is a surrealist version of Zorrilla's Don Juan, conceived by Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, and Salvador Dalí at the Residencia de Estudiantes in 1924.
Under the dramaturgy and direction of Juan Mairena, the production will be shown in the Sala Guirau from October 29 to November 1. The play recreates one of the most unknown theatrical adventures of the Residencia de Estudiantes, celebrating the friendship, youth, and creative freedom of an unrepeatable generation.
Mairena imagines that staging based on the traces left by its protagonists: Buñuel's handwritten notes on Zorrilla's text, memoirs, interviews, letters, photographs, poems, and other testimonies from those years. The irreverent revision of Tenorio became a laboratory of avant-garde and experimentation, completed by Maruja Mallo, Pepín Bello, Margarita Manso, and Moreno Villa.
The production is essentially a human portrait of three friends driven by the urgency to invent their own world. The unique version of Don Juan thus transforms into a theatrical game where Zorrilla's verses coexist with humor, absurdity, anachronisms, and a determined will to combat everything they considered solemn, sentimental, or rotten.
The play captures the indomitable energy of a generation marked by talent and contradictions. While rehearsing this performance, Salvador Dalí, Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, and Federico García Lorca staged an unusual episode: defying the conventions of the time, they took off their hats in the middle of Puerta del Sol, an act that would later give its name to Las Sinsombrero (The Unhatted).
The work is a tribute to the friendship, joy, and extraordinary creativity of young people who would become key figures in 20th-century culture, also championing creators like Maruja Mallo and Margarita Manso.
