Teatro del Barrio, located in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés, receives the 2024 National Theater Award

Neighborhood Theater located in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés, has obtained this Tuesday the National Theatre Award 2024awarded by the Ministry of Culture and endowed with 30,000 euros.

The jury has proposed this award to Teatro del Barrio, which last year celebrated its tenth anniversary, “for its wide and varied programming, its conception of theatre as a home and a space of proximity to the territory in which it is located and its commitment to decentralization, programming artists from all over the country and promoting the mobility of their productions,” the Ministry said in a statement.

The jury also highlighted his educational work in the field of performing arts and the democratisation of knowledge through his school and the Universidad del Barrio project.

Innovation and risk in the performing artsthe commitment to artists or their commitment to innovative and interdisciplinary formats have been the subject of recognition at the time of the ruling, which states that, “In its ten years of existence, the theatre has consolidated its own identity and has generated an indisputable impact, positioning itself as a unique space in the cultural ecosystem.“.

The National Theatre Award is granted as a reward and recognition for the work of a person or entity in the theatre field, preferably demonstrated through a work or performance made public or performed during the year 2023.

Ten years ago, the Teatro de Barrio cooperative artistic and cultural project was born in the heart of Madrid, in the facilities of what had been the Sala Triángulo, an emblematic space of the alternative scene. Its origins are linked to the 15M movement.

Its artistic programming revolves around humanism, memory, class consciousness, feminism, anti-racism, anti-colonialism and environmentalism, while among its best-known productions are ‘El pan y la sal’, ‘Mundo Obrero’, ‘Ruz – Bárcenas’, ‘El Rey’, ‘Las guerras correctos’, ‘La sección’, the trilogy ‘Mujeres que se atreven’, ‘Feminismo para torpes’, ‘Los que habla’, ‘No soy tu gitana’, ‘Cómo hemos llegó aquí’, ‘Homage to Billy El Niño’ and ‘Infiltrado en Vox’.

In addition, last season the play ‘La gran cacería’, written and directed by Juan Mayorga, premiered at the Cuarta Pared theatre as part of the Autumn Festival. The play has been on an international tour and has taken it to the Spanish Academy in Rome.

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As a creative laboratory, Teatro del Barrio also promotes a programme of artistic residencies and maintains a firm commitment to the emerging scene, supporting names such as Candela Solé, Las Mortero, Paula Amor and Zaida Alonso; and organises theatre training workshops and promotes direct actions with the public such as the initiatives ‘Barrio al Balcón’ (meetings between the theatre’s artistic and communication teams and their audiences), ‘Barrio al aparato’ (personalised recommendations via the social network X), and the Reading Club.

His artistic and cultural work has been recognized as ‘The Best of Culture’ in the 2022 Culture Observatory report.