Juan Mayorga, one of the most internationally renowned and acclaimed contemporary theatre playwrights (2007 National Theatre Awards) brings us Darwin’s Turtle, a suggestive fable carrying echoes from Kafka, Bulgakov and even Ionesco. Edged with sharpness and irony, this play explores a variety of issues such as the painful results of the emancipation projects, the idea of giving meaning to the course of history, the objectivity of the story, as well as the aversion-fascination towards what has been established by social convention as monstrous, on this occasion personified in this turtle-woman, eloquent emblem of all our fears and distrusts towards the strange, the different…

The staging by Ernesto Caballero deepens into this mysterious world of allegory and fable, provoking a poetic reflection on our contemporary history.

This staging, produced by El Cruce Theatre and La Abadía Theatre, includes among its main characters the famous and fabulous actress Carmen Machi, well known for her roles in some of the most popular television series.