Dialoguing With The Classics In Madrid: "La Fortaleza/The Fortress" And "Macho Grita/Alpha Male Shouts"
Twenty-first-century theatre practitioners in the west typically fear irrelevance more than anachronism: press releases rarely waste the slightest opportunity to highlight the pertinence to the present-day of new productions from the classical canon. Created in 1986, the year Spain entered the European Economic Community, the CompañÃa Nacional de Teatro Clásico/National Classical Theatre Company (CNTC) wa…