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Cultural and theatrical performances in Spain and Mexico

Overview

Recent cultural events in Spain and Mexico have focused on diverse sensory, historical, and personal themes through music and theater.

In early October, the Música ONCE Festival in Salamanca, Spain, featured over 40 artists with blindness or severe visual impairment, showcasing genres ranging from jazz to traditional Galician music. Simultaneously, in Mexico City, the Sala Nezahualcóyotl hosted ‘Informe sobre ciegos’, a production combining a monologue by John Malkovich with a performance by the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM. The event used darkness to simulate the sensation of blindness during Alfred Schnittke’s Piano Concerto.

By mid-October, theatrical productions shifted toward themes of memory. In Mexico, the Espejo de Hueso theater company performed ‘Mi Perro Cono’ in Durango, exploring childhood and family through nostalgia. In Madrid, the play ‘Los huesos’, directed by Manuela Infante, utilized music to address the historical memory of forced disappearances and the data found in human remains.

Entities

Espejo de Hueso · Música ONCE Festival · John Malkovich · Festival Revueltas 2026 · Manuela Infante

Timeline

  1. [CULTURE] 2 sources
    Cultural performances highlight memory and family in Mexico and Spain

    Theater productions in Mexico and Spain explore diverse themes, from childhood memories in Durango to the musical interpretation of forensic data regarding forced disappearances in Madrid.

  2. [CULTURE] 3 sources
    Cultural festivals highlight musical talent and sensory experiences

    Cultural festivals in Spain and Mexico have featured musical performances by blind artists and sensory-driven spectacles involving John Malkovich and OFUNAM.

Sources

elheraldodesaltillo.mx · gaceta.unam.mx · lacronicadesalamanca.com · lavozdedurango.com.mx · masescena.es