El caballero de Olmedo/The Knight from Olmedo at GALA Hispanic Theatre

El caballero de Olmedo/The Knight from Olmedo

GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street, NW Washington

One of Lope’s most poetic works, this tragicomedy is driven by intrigue, honor, and a passionate love doomed by a bitter rivalry between two Spanish towns. GALA is proud to be collaborating with a dynamic company of Spanish artists, Acción Sur, in this new adaptation and co-production supported by the Embassy of Spain in Washington, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain and U.S. Universities, Theater Communications Group, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the DC Humanities Council. In Spanish with English surtitles.

Thru - Oct 17, 2010

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 3:00pm

Price: $20 - $36

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 202-234-7174

Running Time: 2 hrs;; 1 intermission

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El caballero de Olmedo/The Knight from Olmedo Reviews

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MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

"...El Caballero de Olmedo is a rich, beautifully rendered work of classic Spanish theater. Audiences making the trip to Columbia Heights will not only be rewarded by GALA's gorgeous production but, for some, the fantastic realization that the world of dramatic possibilities has grown that much larger."

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- Tom Avila

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...I understood more of GALA Theatre’s El caballero de Olmedo than I did of The Saint Plays, which is notable only because the former is performed in Spanish, and my knowledge of the language could charitably be called “primitive.” Hopscotching one’s eyeballs between the surtitles on ceiling-suspended monitors and the action onstage quickly becomes wearying, but the actors play in a broad, physical style that doesn’t demand a complete understanding of the nuances of the dialogue, and the plot is a simple-enough, fatalistic tale of love and jealousy and revenge and justice. GALA has pulled out all the stops for this new adaptation of the four-century-old Spanish favorite, assembling a cast from Panama, Chile, Peru, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., then packing them off to Spain (the homeland of others in the cast) to workshop the material and soak up some of Madrid’s baroque essence. Any added measure of authenticity resulting from these preparations is surely lost on a dumb gringo like me, but the show is shot through with an old-world, pastoral charm that seduces across borders—and like I said, it moves."

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- Chris Klimek

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

GALA, now launching its 35th season, has hosted an amazing cross-Atlantic collaboration with the Spanish company Acción Sur in Madrid, to bring us this Golden Age of Spanish Theatre masterpiece by Lope de Vega, based on an ancient legend and song about love, jealousy and honor.

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- Rosalind Lacy

El caballero de Olmedo/The Knight from Olmedo at GALA Hispanic Theatre