Auditorio de Tenerife continues its commitment to the written word, playwriting and historical memory

Auditorio de Tenerife presents the 2026–2027 programme for its theatre venue, La Salita, featuring around thirty Ibero-American productions (from Spain, Portugal and Latin America). The next event is the Argentine play Seré, with four performances: Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 at 7.30 pm, and Sunday 11 at 12 noon. The details were announced by José Carlos Acha, the Tenerife Island Council’s Councillor for Culture, Museums and Sport, and José Luis Rivero, Artistic Director of Auditorio de Tenerife.

The councillor wished to express his gratitude for “the work carried out by the entire Auditorio de Tenerife team, whose work has made it possible for us to present this third season of La Salita, which has been very well received and a great success with audiences since its inception”. “New plays, support for emerging talent, residencies and workshops, and a firm commitment to original writing are some of the key features of the season, which is permeated by historical memory”, commented José Carlos Acha, who emphasised that “tickets cost just 8 euros, in line with the Tenerife Island Council’s commitment to removing barriers to access to culture”.

The artistic director explained that “La Salita is more than just a performance venue; it also conducts research, offers training, documents and develops work, produces performances and supports the creative process, and this is possible thanks to Auditorio de Tenerife’s knowledge of the entire value chain and other artistic languages, accumulated over the past 23 years”. Rivero commented that “La Salita focuses on text-based theatre and contemporary dramaturgy; in other words, we pay special attention to theatre driven by its authors, which is theatre that reflects on the reality in which we live”. “Memory, identity, violence, rights, freedom, community… we address all these themes throughout the season,” the artistic director revealed.

Throughout the season, La Salita offers a regular programme for theatre lovers, including its own productions, as well as public showcases of work from artistic residencies. The month of March will be dedicated to theatre produced in Uruguay, as part of the celebrations marking the tercentenary of the founding of Montevideo by island migrants.

The development of the sector, both locally and nationally, is also supported through playwriting workshops, specialist training and professional meetings. La Salita’s editorial focus is further reinforced by the ‘Malpaís’ collection from Ediciones Antígona, which publishes plays co-edited by Auditorio de Tenerife.

One of La Salita’s most notable achievements is the creation of new stage works. In this regard, one of its own productions that stands out is La verdad molesta, a loose adaptation of Molière’s The Misanthrope commissioned from Emiliano Dionisi (Compañía Criolla), which will be staged in December.

Also falling under this umbrella are the productions resulting from last season’s playwriting residencies, which are set to premiere this season: Aranza Coello’s Entre vampiros y zombies in June and Luis O’Malley’s Harry in April. The artist Laura Reyes is undertaking her residency and premiere in the same season with Socarrat, which will undergo its development process in December and premiere in May, marking her debut as a playwright.

Among this year’s eight playwriting laboratory-style writing residencies is La última isla by Nando López and Quino Falero, who will be working on the island this season to premiere their documentary theatre piece on the struggle of the LGBTIQ+ community in the 2027–2028 season. Another highlight is the work to be carried out during the season with Andrés Lima on his adaptation of Sergio Blanco’s Confesiones, featuring an entirely Canarian cast. Furthermore, Mario Vega will continue his research in June to advance his work Despiezando el matadero, drawing its central inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Work will also begin with Zálatta and Inma Correa.

In addition, work continues on six artistic residencies, each featuring a final showcase open to the public, with creators such as Javier Arozena and Acerina Amador, whilst the collaboration with the Laboratorio de Artes Vivas y Ciudadanía de Canarias (LAV-C) continues for another season.

An ongoing outreach programme has been launched with the Canary Islands School of Acting (EAC) and, this year, also with the Performing Arts Department at the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL).

Tickets cost €8 (€5 for under-30s) and can be purchased at www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the box office from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 17.00 and on Saturdays from 10.00 to 14.00, and by telephone on 902 317 327 during the same hours.

Programme

The programme began in September with a revival of Libros cruzados by Delirium Teatro, a play by Antonio Tabares co-produced by the company and Auditorio de Tenerife last season as part of the theatre group’s 40th anniversary celebrations. All three performances were sold out.

Teatro Niño Proletario travelled from Chile to present three productions directed by Francisco Medina Donoso in October: Exhumar la memoria, a dramatized reading of Neva, and the stage piece Cerebro.

This weekend, the programme continues with the Argentine production Seré, by Lautaro Delgado Tymruk and Sofía Brito, a poetic and aesthetic exploration of the testimony given by Guillermo Fernández at the so-called ‘Trial of the Juntas’ held in Argentina in 1985, where crimes against humanity and systematic human rights violations committed by the Civil-Military Dictatorship were condemned. The performances will take place tomorrow (Thursday 8), the day after (Friday 9) and on Saturday 10 at 7.30 pm, and on Sunday 11 at 12 noon.

The Madrid-based theatre company Micomicón is presenting three performances (Friday 16, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October) of Noche by Alejandro Sawa. Written in 1888, it is a revealing insight into the emerging influences of naturalism on the arts in Spain at that time, a period marked by hunger and social pretence.

Compañía Criolla returns with El brote following last season’s success, with three performances (Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October). In this play, an actor begins to see the boundaries between fiction and reality blur, and even begins to mistrust the person writing the story of his life. What sort of character are we in this story?

October draws to a close with Deserto, by the Polifônica theatre company, on Friday 30, Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November. Deserto, performed in Brazilian Portuguese with Spanish surtitles, is the first Brazilian theatre production based on the work and memoirs of the acclaimed Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003), widely regarded as one of the greatest Latin American authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

November continues on Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 with Cariño malo, the debut production by the Peruvian theatre company Ministerio de la Belleza. A repressive society, secrets from the past and a suitcase full of money are just some of the ingredients in this tribute to Ibero-American melodrama. The mysterious alchemy of the great classics of Peruvian creole music is reinterpreted here through a queer lens in a story about the quest for independence and desire.

On Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November, Selfi. Ser joven en la sociedad del espectáculo (Selfie: Being Young in the Society of Spectacle) takes to the stage – a participatory theatre production created by Juan Ayala and Miguel Oyarzun. The pair explore what it means to be around twelve years old today and how this generation navigates a world in which screens are proliferating both inside and outside school, constantly navigating the boundary between reality and fiction. Schoolchildren from the island are taking part in these public performances as part of a project run by the Education and Social Affairs Department.

The month concludes with Monga, by the Brazilian actress, director and producer Jéssica Teixeira, on Friday 20, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November. In Monga, she takes the risk of not repeating the classic narrative and sets out to revisit the harshness of the past without sensationalism, debunking myths to imagine alternative narratives based on the story of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century Mexican artist and singer who suffered from generalised congenital hypertrichosis, a condition that covered her body and face in hair.

 

La Salita kicks off December with two shows featured in the national theatre, dance and circus circuit ‘España en Libertad 50 años’, organised by the Spanish Network of Theatres, Auditoriums, Circuits and Festivals under the Ministry of Culture. On Friday 11, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13, Ictus (Anatomy of Castelao’s ‘La última lección’) will be performed – the new project by the Galician company Chévere, co-produced with the National Drama Centre. On Saturday 19 and Sunday 20, the programme features Federico. No hay olvido, ni sueño carne viva by the company Proyecto 43-2; it is a work that blurs the lines between memory, desire and imagination, journeying to the very depths of the earth, where the disappeared dwell.

La Salita begins 2027 with Niebla, directed and written by the Argentine-born, Spain-based Fernanda Orazi, a play inspired by Miguel de Unamuno’s novel of the same name, which will be performed on Friday 8th, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th January.

On Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 January, Cosas que caen del cielo will be staged, by the company of Dora Cantero, a Spanish author, actress, broadcaster, stage director, puppeteer, playwright and teacher.

On Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 January, there will be a revival of the family show Orfeo y Eurídice: Un viaje para decir adiós, by the Tenerife-based company Gaviera. This commission from Auditorio de Tenerife is a puppet adaptation of the myth.

The Galician company Xampatito Pato kicks off February with Compaña on Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February, a production combining circus and puppetry. The month concludes on Friday 12th, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th with Belvedere, a theatrical production written and directed by Juan Ollero and starring the actors Ángela Boix and Francesco Carril.

March, dedicated to Uruguay, begins with Ballet by the Pequeño Teatro de Morondanga company, with performances on Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7, directed by Roberto Suárez, who is visiting Spain for the first time with this co-production by Auditorio de Tenerife.

On Thursday 18, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 March, the Uruguayan production Ser humana, written by Angie Oña and directed by Freddy González, will take to the stage. It was created in honour of Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), a woman who suffered from delusions but eventually recovered and went on to develop psychological theories, becoming a pioneer of psychoanalysis.

Furthermore, the production – selected in the call for entries by Uruguay’s National Institute of Performing Arts (INAE) to choose a single national theatre production, specifically a monologue performed by a woman – will be presented at the Festival Singular – International Theatre Monologue Festival in Narón, Galicia, and at La Salita in mid-March.

March concludes with Take Off [Nada de esto tuvo que haber ocurrido] (None of This Needed to Have Happened), a production by the Tenerife-based playwright Jose Padilla, commissioned by Auditorio de Tenerife. The play premiered last season and returns following its success as part of the 50th anniversary commemorations of the Los Rodeos air crash on which it is based, with several performances: on Tuesday 30 and on Wednesday 31 March, and on Thursday 1, Tuesday 6, Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 April.

April continues with a production from Ávila that celebrates life in the countryside: Yo nací en un surco de judías (I Was Born in a Bean Furrow). This production by the Almealera theatre company can be enjoyed on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25.

May kicks off at La Salita on Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 with a Portuguese production by the Cassandra theatre company: Monólogo de uma mulher chamada Maria com a sua patroa (Monologue by a woman called Maria with her boss).

 

Histrión Teatro, a theatre company from Granada, returns to La Salita on Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 with Nevenka, based on the 2001 case when, for the first time in Spanish history, a woman won a sexual harassment case against a politician. The show is part of the ‘España en Libertad 50 años’ circuit.

On Friday 21, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23, the Uruguayan actress, director and playwright Lucía Trentini presents Perra cimarrona, a work that offers a cry of rebellion against the atrocities of history, focusing particularly on women in Latin America since the invasion of 1492.

Over the final four days of May, there will be a programme featuring two shows with several points in common, including the fact that they are both monologues starring Rubén de Eguía and directed by Xavier Albertí. These are En mitad de tanto fuego, written by Alberto Conejero, and La ira de Narciso, by the Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco.

In June, on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th, La Salita presents a street circus performance set inside a caravan: Olvido flores en las maravillas de Júpiter, by the Spanish multidisciplinary artist Estefanía de Paz Asín. The show is part of the ‘Circuito España en Libertad 50 años’ programme.

On the same dates, the afternoon performance Melón pelado will take place, addressing the issue of people subjected to head-shaving as a form of punishment after the Spanish Civil War, by the ButacaZero company, a Galician creative platform for contemporary theatre.