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Agustín Espinosa's surrealism reaches the Cueva de los Verdes on 11 September

Agustín Espinosa's surrealism reaches the Cueva de los Verdes on 11 September
Paisaje volcánica con el volcán de la Corona desde la Cueva de los Verdes - Lanzarote - CV05 · Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

On 11 September at 20:00, in the Cueva de los Verdes Auditorium, Lancelot 28º-7º goes on: a show that puts together cabaret, electronic music, lyric singing, performance and humour. Put like that it sounds like a jumble; the point is that the source material holds it.

The text is the book of the same name by Agustín Espinosa, one of the central figures of Canarian surrealism, who in the 1920s imagined Lanzarote as a literary territory before a geographical one. The piece turns it into a contemporary reading — free and irreverent.

José Carlos Campos gives the writer a body and walks the audience through that geography. With him, composer and performer Belén Álvarez Doreste – Lajalada, who builds the electronic landscape live, and tenor Manuel Gómez Ruiz, who brings lyric singing into the staging.

The venue does half the work: the Cueva de los Verdes is a volcanic tube, and the auditorium sits inside the rock. A surrealist text about Lanzarote, staged inside Lanzarote — literally.

Lancelot 28º-7º was selected in the 2026-2027 cultural projects call of the Centros de Arte, Cultura y Turismo. Tickets are already on sale.

Pamela Maletti