Chévere

Chévere is an agitational theatrical company that has been active for over 35 years. It has managed to remain true to its focus on creating its own works and to its solid position on social, political and cultural matters. In 2014, Spanish cultural authorities chose Chévere for the country's National Theatre Award. The company is comprised of a stable creative core (Xesús Ron, Patricia de Lorenzo, Miguel de Lira) and continues to work with a broad network of collaborators. Chévere stages works that examine current debates, putting them in contrast with the memory of a recent past that affects us and documenting them onstage with a contemporary language that is accessible to a wide range of spectators. Examples of this modus operandi: N.E.V.E.R.M.O.R.E. (2021), about the ecological catastrophe caused by the Prestige oil spill; Curva España (2019), which portrays the myth of the Spanish nation state as if it were a true-crime story in the context of rail transport; Eroski Paraíso (2016), about the effects of globalisation on a small coastal town in Galicia; As Fillas Bravas (2015), a revindication of oral culture and village culture; Ultranoite no País dos Ananos (2014), which settles a score with the socio-political system of the Galicia of Manuel Fraga; Eurozone (2013), about the 2008 financial crisis interpreted as a collective robbery perpetrated by the elite; the trilogy Citizen (2010-11), which is an unauthorised biographical work about Amancio Ortega and the ‘Zara miracle’; and Testosterona (2009), about gender-related conflicts.