He Neighborhood theater received the National Theatre Award 2024endowed with 30,000 euros, “for his a wide and varied program and his conception of theatre as hogar and proximity space with the territory in which it is integrated,” reported this Tuesday the Ministry of Culture.
The jury proposed to award this prize to Neighborhood theaterwho celebrated his birthday in 2023 tenth anniversaryFurthermore, for “his commitment to decentralizationaa programmingartists from all over the country and promote the mobility of their productions.”
Similarly, the jury highlighted “his educational work in the field of performing arts and the democratization of knowledge through his school and his project Neighborhood University“. The theater received a flood of congratulations from the followers and actors who were part of the theater. This is how they applauded this award of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music:
Ten years of making Teatro del Barrio
The jury emphasizes that the Teatro del Barrio “welcomes the innovation and risk in the performing arts, serving as a platform for creators with diverse profiles and trajectories” and underlines that “the cooperative management and the strong involvement of its entire team allow welcoming many voicestaking risks and welcoming both established artists and emerging“.
The judgment highlights “his commitment to innovative and interdisciplinary formats” that “bring together diverse audiences, creating a space to generate reflection on the social and political context of the performing arts.”
The minutes state that “in its ten years of lifeThe theatre has consolidated its own identity and generated an undeniable impact, positioning itself as a unique space in the cultural ecosystem“.
This theatre, which has now been in existence for a decade, has advanced its new season girlwith the schedule from September 2024 to January 2025:
This is the Teatro del Barrio, in Lavapies
The Neighborhood Theater is a artistic and cultural cooperative project and popular vocation which was inaugurated on December 4, 2013 in the Madrid district of Lavapiesin the facilities of what had been the Triangle Rooman emblematic space of the alternative scene.
Linked since its origins to Movement 15Min their productions, anchored in social commitment and citizen initiative, there is a clear commitment to reflection and debate performing arts, analyzing the present and imagining other possible realities.
Its artistic programming is structured around humanismTHE memoryTHE class consciousnesshe feminismhe antiracismhe anticolonialism and the environmentalismamong other topics.
The best productions of the Teatro del Barrio
Among its most famous productions, which have toured national and international festivals and theatres, are: ‘Bread and salt’, ‘Mundo Obrero’, ‘Ruz – Bárcenas’ or ‘The King’among others.
Last season they made their debut in the Room of the Fourth Wallwithin the framework of Autumn Festival“The Great Hunt”, written and directed by Juan Mayorgaa work that went on an international tour that took it to Spanish Academy of Rome.
On the stage of the Teatro del Barrio, established artists from the Spanish cultural scene performed, such as: José Sacristán, Nuria Espert, Juan Margallo, Alberto San Juan, Sergi López, José Sanchis Sinisterra, Aitana Sanchez-GijonAndrés Lima, Will Keen, Juan Cavestany, Luis Bermejo, Pilar Gómez, Leo BassiPablo Remon, Pepe ViyuelaManolo Soloeither Eva Redondoamong others.
As a creative laboratory, the Teatro del Barrio also promotes a program of artistic residencies and maintains a strong commitment to the emerging scene, supporting names like Candela Solé or Paula Amor.
True to its founding spirit, it maintains a line of social projects to weave the community, such as Neighborhood University And Neighborhood reactiontwo free-entry activities designed to open the stage to citizen participation.
