Pródigo

This is not the epic story of a son’s escape.

Right before the big Christmas campaign, the matriarch of a meat-processing company dies. Her son, forty years old and with plenty of unresolved issues, returns home to claim his share of the inheritance—and to finally divorce his father. Eva Mir asks, among other things, who has told us our own family story.

Hacia Pródigo, the itinerant version originally created for a specific site, premiered at Teatre El Musical. It later moved to the Rialto and now arrives from Valencia to present at Nave 10 the version adapted for a conventional stage space. It is a living piece of original authorship, inspired by the biblical parable of the prodigal son and the later versions that emerged during Spain’s Golden Age. However, here there is no compassionate father opening the door to his repentant son. Pablo—the son’s name—undertakes instead a journey that becomes a story about contemporary uncertainty and abandonment.

In Prodigal, this son becomes a generational symbol, reacting to the cancellation of the future with deep discontent. Eva Mir, author and director of the piece, uses a distinctly contemporary stage language that moves between the baroque and the pop. Her proposal features a live soundscape by Marcos Nadie, a choral cast, and physical theatre to tell a story about the lack of opportunity.

Rocío Bello
Dramaturg of the 25/26 season at Nave 10 Matadero