Name: The Sea
Start: 2025-09-27T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-27T22:00:00+02:00
Location: malaga

The Sea

Event details

Teatro Ciudad de Marbella, malaga, malaga

27 September 2025 until 27 September 2025

# Marbella

This is the story of a promise that could not be fulfilled, made by a teacher to his students. The teacher was Antoni Benaiges. The students were the boys and girls of the rural school in Bañuelos de Bureba, a village in the province of Burgos. He made the promise one winter day in 1936. He promised them the sea.

In 1934, the young Catalan teacher Antoni Benaiges arrived at the rural school in Bañuelos de Bureba, a small village in Burgos. A few months later, he paid out of his own pocket for a gramophone and a rudimentary printing press. From that first course, the children published their emotions, dreams, and thoughts.

In January 1936, they published The Sea. Vision of children who have never seen it. The booklet "contains, in verse format rather than prose, the expressions of the schoolchildren about how they imagine the sea, their fears, and their dreams." None of the children had seen the sea. The teacher promised them that he would take them to Catalonia that same summer to see it. On July 25, 1936, Benaiges was executed. The teacher's promise could no longer be fulfilled.

The piece –the result of our first meeting as creators– proposes a setup in which objects, the poem, and documentary material coexist without hierarchies.

Duration: 65 minutes.
Recommended for ages 14 and up.

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