Within the research framework of her project Contra Antígona, Andrea Jiménez convenes and curates Campamento Antígona, a citizen laboratory of scenic practice and thought around the figure of Antigone.
Thousands of times performed, versioned and adapted, Antigone returns incessantly to question us about the great unsolvable conflicts of humanity, placing us in the zone of tension between the intimate and the collective, action and paralysis, the body and the word, rebellion and fundamentalism, desire and death.
As a summer camp for adults, 30 participants enjoyed a week-long program of lectures and workshops on stage practice, philosophy, dramaturgy, chorus and facilitation given by Andrea Jiménez, Victoria Szpunberg, Jorge Volpi, Eva Arteaga, Sonia Megías, Marifé Santiago, Nuria Güell, Diego Garrocho, Carmen Madorrán and the DemosLab team.
Dates - July 7 to 12, 2025
Hours - Monday to Friday from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m., Saturday from 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
Anyone interested in contemporary creation, with or without previous experience (call deadline closed).
For 6 days, Condeduque's facilities hosted a temporary community of creators, citizens and thinkers to reimagine the myth of Antigone in the light of current political and social issues and try to unravel together the darkness of our times.
Andrea Jiménez: "Laboratory of scenic creation: the antigonic gesture" (Workshop).
Andrea is a director, playwright, producer and actress. She has created numerous theater shows for institutions such as the Centro Dramático Nacional, Teatro de la Abadía, Teatre Lliure, Teatro Nacional de Catalunya, Centro Dramático Galego, or Teatro Circo Price, and her work has been seen in national and international theaters and festivals, such as Festival de Otoño, Festival Grec, Be Festival or Edinburgh Fringe, among others. She is the founder of the multi-award winning company Teatro En Vilo and winner of the Ojo Crítico de Teatro 2019 Award. Her plays include Casting Lear, Vulcano, Mal de Coraçon, Hoy puede ser mi gran noche, Cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí, Man Up, Generación Why or Interrupted.
Marifé Santiago: "Antigone, sustaining the penumbra: a look from Philosophy" (Lecture)
The poet Marifé Santiago-Bolaños, PhD in Philosophy, is professor of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid, patron of the María Zambrano Foundation and corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of History and Art of San Quirce. She is a member of the ITEM (Instituto de Teatro de Madrid) and the Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España; she co-directs the Complutense Research Group "Poéticas de la Modernidad" and is part of the Complutense Research Project "Estética y transformación digital de la sociedad: la relevancia del laboratorio estético para el análisis y la crítica de la comunidad virtual y el capitalismo de la atención" (Aesthetics and digital transformation of society: the relevance of the aesthetic laboratory for the analysis and critique of the virtual community and the capitalism of attention).
Eva Arteaga, "Conflict facilitation".
Relationship and group facilitator and organizational consultant with more than 20 years of experience in multicultural environments. Expert in individual and group intervention methodologies (Process Work, Deep Democracy, systemic tools).
Accompanies to navigate the common spaces and their conflicts as a way of growth, transformation and awareness, using facilitation as a tool to "make easier" the integration of all voices and discover the most unknown aspects of personal and group dynamics. It generates spaces in which to experience another way of conversing and relating.
Nuria Güell: "Art, desire and disobedience" (Lecture)
Nuria Güell is a visual and performance artist, internationally recognized for her works related to the functioning of power systems, which she does not limit herself to criticize or represent, but within which she always situates her practice, generating both distorting gestures and construction of alternative forms of organization, subjectivity or relationality. His artistic practice is characterized by being a practice of confrontation, of questioning evidence and moral conventions. He does not understand artistic practice as a cultural practice but quite the opposite: a socially and politically necessary practice in which the cultural and the established are put into play.
Sonia Megías: "Choir" (Workshop)
Sonia Megías, composer and cultural mediator. Specialist in the creation of 'rare scores' and social transformation through music. There is the Aula Sonia Megías since 2018 in a school in Alicante, the Biblioteca Sonia Megías in a conservatory in Granada since 2022 and the Calle Sonia Megías in a school in Almansa since 2024. Among others, she has received the Fulbright Scholarship (New York, 2010-2012) and the nomination of Ambassador of the festival 'Una mirada diferente' (CDN, Madrid, 2018). She has directed the vocal laboratory CoroDelantal and the publishing house EdicionesDelantal since 2011 and has been half of Dúa da Pel since 2014. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at MACA (Alicante) and is pursuing her PhD in Art at UPV (Valencia). www.soniamegias.es
Raquel del Amo: "Antigone and the enigma of feminine desire: a look from the pisconalysis" (Lecture)
Raquel del Amo Gómez is a psychologist, psychoanalyst belonging to the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Psychoanalytic Association of Madrid (APM), and director of the Prevention Project, support and monitoring for children of people with mental illness or emotional instability "Casa Verde" of Fundación Manantial. She has been director of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of Arganda del Rey, belonging to the Social Care Network for people with severe and lasting mental illness of the Community of Madrid managed by Fundación Manantial and collaborates as a teacher in the Master of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Victoria Szpunberg: "There will never be another time - The word, the speech, the action" (Workshop)
With a degree in Playwriting and Direction from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and a Masters in Theatre Studies from the UAB, Victoria Szpunberg is a playwright with a solid track record of premieres, publications and artistic works of different typologies, as well as being a teacher and pedagogue at the Institut del Teatre, the Obrador de la Beckett and other artistic research and training spaces. She has worked and premiered her own work in theaters such as the Centro Dramático Nacional, the TNC or the Teatre Lliure. His texts have also been translated into several languages and have been seen in countries such as the United States, Colombia, Italy, Prague, France, among others.
Szpunberg is an author concerned with making a theater connected to the political and social issues of the contemporary world, with an open and transdisciplinary look (she has often worked as a playwright in dance projects) and without closing herself in a single genre or register.
Recently, she has been widely awarded for her work El imperativo categórico, which will be shown next season at the Abadía, (Premio Ciutat de Barcelona, Time Out Award, Critics Award, among others).
Jorge Volpi
With a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca, Jorge Volpi is one of the most prolific and award-winning authors in Mexican literature. His work shows a marked interest in the world of science and its implications, as well as in politics and current thinking. His novels include A pesar del oscuro silencio (1992); the "Trilogía del siglo XX", formed by En busca de Klingsor (1999, Premio Biblioteca Breve), El fin de la locura (2003) and Tiempo de cenizas (2006); La tejedora de sombras (2012, Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Planeta-Casa de América); Oscuro bosque oscuro (2010); Memorial del engaño (2014); Las elegidas (2015); Una novela criminal (2018, Premio Alfaguara) and Partes de guerra (2022). He has also written the essays La imaginación y el poder (1998), La guerra y las palabras (2004), Mentiras contagiosas (2008, Mazatlán Prize), El insomnio de Bolívar (2009, Debate - Casa de América Prize), Leer la mente (2011), Examen de mi padre (2016) and La invención de todas las cosas (2024); the play Las agujas dementes (2020), and the book of short stories Enrabiados (2023).
Demos lab
Democratic innovation laboratory dedicated to citizen participation. We implement deliberative processes that involve all social agents, especially citizens. Our goal is to contribute and jointly solve the issues and problems that matter to us as a society.
April 11, 2024 at the Teatro de la Abadía in Madrid.
MAX Award FOR BEST SHOW 2025
MAX Award FOR BEST ADAPTATION 2025
FIOT CARBALLO 2024 Audience Award
Nomination FOR BEST DIRECTOR GODOT AWARDS
José Antonio Alba, from Godot Magazine, talks to Andrea Jiménez about ‘Casting Lear’ days before its premiere at the José Luis Alonso theater.
"It is theater, no doubt about it, but theater in the flesh. The swords and words really hurt, they are not props. Andrea Jiménez risks death in every performance and the actor on duty may not come out much better off."
EL PAÍS - Nuria Labari
"Lear" turns La Abadía upside down: a new actor every night: Andrea Jiménez breaks with the norm to direct the show live and through the earpiece; the performers (Miguel del Arco, Alberto San Juan, Andrés Lima...) will put themselves for the first and last time in the shoes of the Shakespearian king".
La Razón
"The playwright explores the boundaries between autofiction and classical theater to the last consequences in her new project."
El Cultural - Marta Ailouti
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Getxo
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Fuenlabrada
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Montevideo (FIDAE)
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Parla
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15/11/25
San Fernando de Henares
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21/11/25
Castellón
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Segovia
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19/12/25
Sant Cugat del Vallés
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20/12/25
Badalona
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