The National Drama Center (CDN) canceled the performance of the play The seagull on October 30. The reason, as this media was able to confirm from various sources, was the activation of the protocol due to alleged sexual harassment based on gender, on the part of one of the actors.
This actor, fired the same day, was replaced by another performer the next day. A large part of the cast is made up of visually impaired actresses and actors.
According to sources from the Ministry of Culture, the protocol was activated “quickly”, meetings were held with the people concerned and the relevant reports were prepared, and the agreement signed with the Actors’ Union for a case like this was applied.
One of the actresses in the play published a photograph showing the door of the Teatro Valle-Inclán, headquarters of the CDN, with signs stating that in the aforementioned play “sexual harassment has been reported” and that “the CDN knows it “. , hides it and is an accomplice. As the actress indicates and this media has verified with other sources: “If the INAEM and the CDN have not made public the case of harassment that we suffered, it is because the victims asked them.”
“We, the victims, felt accompanied, protected and listened to by our director, by the CDN and by the INAEM, who as soon as they found out, acted in an exemplary manner and replaced him,” adds he. actress.
The Ministry of Culture describes these events as a “very serious offense”.
Antón Chekhov’s play, directed by Chela de Ferrari, which premiered on October 9 and continues until November 10 at the Valle Inclán Theater in Madrid, will be shown in theaters until November 10.
The CDN is a theater production unit headed by Alfredo Sanzol and dependent on the Ministry of Culture and its National Institute of Performing Arts (INAEM).
