The Marbella City Theater will host the premiere of the play 'The King is Dying'

The Marbella City Theater will host the premiere of the play 'The King is Dying' by Eugene Ionesco, this coming Saturday, May 17th. Ionesco, along with Beckett, is a leading figure of the so-called 'Theatre of the Absurd'. The performance, scheduled for 8:00 PM and presented by the Atalaya company, marks a milestone in their 42-year history, featuring a lively, colorful, and rhythmic script that portrays a grotesque microcosm, yet filled with fears and feelings as exaggerated as they are human.

Aurora Casado, Jerónimo Arenal, Marga Reyes, Joaquín Galán, and Marina Miranda join 'King Berenger IV', who is told at the start of the show that "he will die before it ends." He has only an hour and a half left to live, this monarch who believes himself immortal and has led his kingdom and nature to disaster. A biting critique in a musical key, with nods to other legendary Atalaya shows, to 'King Lear' and Molière's 'The Miser', but with a more contemporary language. A script performed by major figures of the world stage (Alec Guinness, Geoffrey Rush, or Susan Sarandon, among others) that has not been presented nationally in the last twenty years and represents the company's second foray into the theater of the absurd following their success with 'Waiting for Godot'.

Sario Téllez and Ricardo Iniesta are directing again, along with Ana Arteaga in charge of scenography and Carmen de Giles and Flores de Giles in costume design, right after receiving nominations at the Lorca Awards.