‘La Celestina’ travelling street theatre – Teror
On Saturday, February the 8th 2025, a travelling performance of Fernando Rojas’ famous tragicomedy ‘La Celestina’ will be coming to the streets of Teror, adapted by the company D’Hoy Teatro. The event will begin in Plaza del Pino at 20:00, open to all audiences, especially young people (over 14 years old).
The activity, included in the program of the Municipal Library of Teror and the Department of Culture, and subsidised by the First Vice-Presidency of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, will take place over 70 minutes in different settings in the centre of Teror, culminating in the Library and the Plaza Teresa de Bolívar.
The classic production is based on the most comical sense of the work, brought to the stage based on a textual adaptation and direction by Iván Álamo, who will also play the role of Sempronio, alongside the cast formed by Fernando Navas (Celestina), Ragüel Santa Ana (Calisto), Laura Perdomo (Melibea) and Carol Cabrera (Areúsa).
The adaptation perfectly describes the plot, reproducing the main themes of the work and discarding the subplots embedded in De Rojas’ text.
The story unfolds in three acts. The first is the introduction of the characters and the main conflict; the second is the development of the conflict and the third is the closure of the plot.
‘La Celestina’, also known as ‘The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea’, tells the story of an unrequited love in their twenties that ends up merging the two protagonists in a unique and superhuman feeling incited by Celestina, a cunning and sorceress old woman, who will also witness the parallelism of these with the more than friendly relationship maintained by their servants, who enjoy a sexual affair not very different from the internal desire that their masters have for each other.
