The best international and Spanish creations will once more be performed at Teatralia, the Community of Madrid’s International Performing Arts Festival for all ages. From 6 to 29 March 2026, the festival will be holding its 30th edition, with shows that combine theatre, puppets, magic, circus, video creations or performance that will be performed in various venues across the capital and other municipalities.
Almost 400 foreign companies from all of the continents and more than 300 Spanish companies have participated in Teatralia over the past three decades. Around a thousand plays have been performed in venues across Madrid and various municipalities in the region, offering more than six thousand performances.
This latest edition, will feature 29 companies from 11 countries, performing 30 shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Teatralia, the best and most eclectic stage production for audiences of all ages. Variety and quality come together in a programme with a marked and vocational European accent, with productions addressing current issues, such as immigration, environmentalism or historical memory.
The 30 shows that make up the programme of the 30th edition are an invitation to delve into thirty unique worlds, in which diverse genres (circus, dance, theatre and music) are explored and intertwined with the variety of each genre (gestures, object theatre, puppets, live musical performance, musical theatre, concert format, choreographed circus, etc.).
Nine of the productions will be premièred in Spain and 10 in the Community of Madrid. They will be performed across 13 venues and 15 stages in the capital: Paco Rabal Cultural Centre-Palomeras Bajas, Pilar Miró Cultural Centre, Condeduque Contemporary Culture Centre, Espacio Abierto Quinta de los Molinos, La Casa Encendida, Réplika Teatro, Sala Cuarta Pared, Sala Mirador, Teatro Circo Price, Teatro de La Abadía, Teatro del Institut Français de Madrid, Teatro Pradillo and Teatros del Canal. And on 19 stages across 17 municipalities in Madrid: Alcalá de Henares, Alcorcón, Becerril de la Sierra, La Cabrera, Majadahonda, Meco, Móstoles, Navalcarnero, Paracuellos del Jarama, Pozuelo de Alarcon, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Soto del Real, Torrejón de Ardoz, Torrelaguna, Valdemorillo, Valdeolmos-Alapardo and Villanueva de la Cañada.
Teatralia will be inaugurated on Friday, 6 March with Verne, inspired by the futuristic universe imagined by the French writer, Jules Verne, produced by Onírica Mecánica.
The literary roots lie in the festival’s other shows, such as Pato, Patito by Teatrocinema,, an amazing and innovative show combining music, theatre, animation and film, which is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. Racontars Arctiques is an adaptation of the tales by the young Danish writer and adventurer, Jørn Riel in relation to a group of hunters and companions, who are subjected to extreme weather conditions.
The tradition of verse reciters is praised in Treasure Island by the InHabitants Company, a musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel of the same name, and in Picopato by Gorakada, which remembers one of its best known performers.
Other shows channel their beauty through music, such as Boléro by Cie DK59, a fun dance driven by Maurice Ravel's hypnotic and much remembered melody. There is also MIKRO by Cas Public, based on the compositions of the Hungarian composer. They are joined by Swan Lake by the choreographer, Florence Caillon, in an original, free and acrobatic adaptation of what could well be the most popular ballet in the world.
For those looking for humour, a catalyst for stories and genres, absurdity of clowns can be seen in Actapalabra by the Théâtre Am Stram Gram Company; the difficulties of climbing a ladder in Ákri by Manel Rosés; the comedy of the concert by eight musicians in Ouverture by Teatergruppen Batida or the entanglements with time that Eugenia Manzanera gets herself into in Ay qué lío!
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