Tirant Joanot Martorell

Cervantes saves Tirant lo Blanch from the bonfire and Don Quixote claims that it is “the best book in the world”. The poet Dámaso Alonso considers it as the first modern European novel. Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has nothing but praise for this work, the peak of the Golden Age of Valencia, written by Joanot Martorell at a point when Valencia was the epicentre of cultural and humanistic activity of the Mediterranean. While men busy themselves with politics and winning wars, women deal with escaping from the sexual repression imposed by Christian morals and lineage. Quite ironically, Joanot Martorell moves his progtagonist, Tirant lo Blanch, between these two worlds, filling his body and soul with wounds: battle wounds and, perhaps the ones that hurt most, those caused by love.

Co-production by Institut Valencià de Cultura (the Valencian Institute of Culture) and Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (the National Company of Classical Theatre)