JOGLARS — THE MARVELLOUS TABLEAU

Auditorium Palma — Sala Magna, Av. Gabriel Roca, 18, 07014 Palma, Balearic Islands

THE MARVELLOUS TABLEAU

Contemporary variations on a theme by Cervantes

This age of mobile phones and artificial intelligence tends to foster in many people a sense of superiority that prevents them from accepting and understanding how slight the difference is that separates us from our classics. In this respect, the situations presented by Cervantes in his interlude The Marvellous Tableau continue to occur today, and even multiply in versions that are still more extreme and grotesque.

The great expansion of the written, visual and audio media of our time provides the most effective platform for rogues, frauds and scoundrels of every kind and condition to roam freely, disguised as society’s gurus. From the key positions they occupy in politics, finance and culture, they can sell us tableaux of nothing at the expense of people’s fear of being seen as fools or fascists. No one pays any attention anymore to the children who warn us that the emperor has no clothes. Perhaps because children today are too domesticated, artists cling to public money and philosophers act as tutors of the system. As a result, empty tableaux take on an even greater dimension, promoted by the highest institutions and sold by the media, taking advantage of the fact that “Each day that dawns…”

Theatre in Spanish · Sala Magna