Espacio Abierto, a center within the Culture, Tourism, and Sports Area dedicated to childhood and adolescence, will premiere its own production Entre el caos y el ojalá in June. This play, which will be performed at the Auditorium on June 27, 28, and 29 at 6:30 PM, is the result of the seventh edition of Mundo Quinta, Espacio Abierto’s annual documentary theater project in collaboration with Cross Border Project.
Through this project, Mundo Quinta offers young people the opportunity to create a play defined and performed by themselves, to share with the world the things that truly concern them. Every Thursday, from October to June, the participants have carried out the creative, artistic, and interpretative work that they will showcase on stage the last weekend of June.
On this occasion, the theatrical piece is a creation based on documentary, collecting real stories from the 18 people who are part of the cast and invited guests, where words, gestures, images, and audiovisual projections interact with each other.
Entre el caos y el ojalá analyzes the words that go through adolescence and the memories hidden behind them: chaos, intensity, what, nothing, hashtag, fight, curiosity, shots, white, desire, goodbye, dragon, red, boom, and hopefully. All this explosive material travels from its real origin to the fiction of the scene and from there, to the audience’s imagination.
Admission is free until full capacity is reached. People aged between 13 and 18 will have preferential access, being able to collect their tickets at the Espacio Abierto box office from 5:30 PM. For the rest of the audience, tickets will be distributed ten minutes before the show starts.
Entre el caos y el ojalá is a collective creation of the group of young people from the seventh edition of Mundo Quinta: a production of Espacio Abierto Quinta de los Molinos directed by Cross Border.
Cross Border Project
Cross Border was born in New York in 2010 as an initiative of Lucía Miranda and since 2012 it has been established in Spain as a group of ‘arteducators’ working in the field of performing arts, education, and social transformation.
Cross Border is made up of a theater company and an applied theater school, the Cross School, which, with a local and international essence, has developed projects with communities from diverse places such as Medina de Rioseco, Grenoble, Addis Ababa, or the Madrid neighborhood of San Cristóbal de los Ángeles. They have also collaborated with various organizations such as Action Against Hunger, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), or the Gypsy Secretariat Foundation, among others.
In their projects, they emphasize the training of young people and teachers and the visibility of the stories and experiences of people who do not usually take the stage. In 2014, they were selected by the Coordinator of Development Organizations as agents of social change through the arts. /
