King Afonso VIII of Galicia Pola Costa da Death

Recreation, through the performing arts, of the route made by the monarch in 1223 along the Costa da Morte, focused on the stages between cherry, Serantes and Lendo.

The initiative combined Historical Theater, Metateatro, Music and Oral Narration, offering an immersion in the life and political and social conflicts of the Kingdom of Galicia during the Lower Middle Ages.

In the first stage, set in Cherry (Camariñas and Vimianzo), the arrival of the king and his encounter with the bishop of Mondoñedo and the Earl of Traba were represented, where the signature of donations to monasteries and his mediation in an ecclesiastical conflict between Compostela and Mondoñedo was staged.

In the second, already in Soesto and Serantes (Laxe), the king found laundries that symbolized the role of women at the time, while scenes of everyday life, successive conflicts and a puppet show in which, through a blind narrator, the milestones of the Froilaz-Traba family were represented.

The third stage, in Lendo (Laracha), took the viewer to a dream plane where the king, extenued by the trip, dreams of a meeting with his grandfather, Alfonso VII. Through this conversation, key moments of Galician history were staged: the King's childhood in the monastery of Moraime under the protection of Pedro Froilaz, the alliance between this and Xelmírez and the coronation of Alfonso VII in Santiago.

The use of metateatro, blind songs and puppets have the audience to history from a proposed, didactic and emotional perspective. The project put in the forgotten Olyade value of the family Traba and recovered the memory of the last king that governed Galicia as a differentiated entity.

Presented by
Bernardino Martínez Castiñeira

COLLABORATE
Manu Fernández
Giuliano Lancelotti
Pablo Rúa
Jose Losada
Andrea Rodríguez
Iago Spasandín
Alicia bathes
Tone Martínez
Xosé Martínez Laws

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King Afonso VIII of Galicia Pola Costa da Death

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King Afonso VIII of Galicia Pola Costa da Death

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