THE GARDEN
OF THE HESPERIDES | (SPAİN) ALICIA SOTO



Alicia Soto-Hojarasca
11 February Tuesday
Theatre

Written By Alicia Soto, Julio Martín Da Fonseca, Carmen Samudio Kostina
Directed By Alicia Soto

What story lies behind each gaze?
No matter the place, nor the country of origin, gardens are the same; similar hells exist, and paradise is not reserved for them—because they are women.

(Alicia Soto)
The Garden of the Hesperides is a Spanish-Moroccan dance-theatre project. According to Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs who guarded a garden with fruit trees bearing golden apples that granted immortality. This mythical garden is said to be located either to the south of the Iberian Peninsula or in the Moroccan Atlas mountains. Thus, the title The Garden of the Hesperides.

Our Garden of the Hesperides represents the inner garden of women—of all women, universally, across different cultures, religions, places, and times. Through a dreamlike and poetic lens, it portrays the space each woman creates for herself: a sanctuary to dream, to rest, to catch her breath, to quench her thirst, and to build an intimate world that sustains her, helping her to continue—sometimes to survive.

The garden only exists if one understands the darkness

Set Designer Elisa Sanz
Costume Designer Elisa Sanz
Lıgthing Designer Miguel Ángel Camacho

Original Music: Abdellah M. Hassak
Tour Technician: Alvaro Guisado
Artistic Collaboration:  Abdellah Chakiri
Original Music: Abdellah M. Hassak
Tour Technician: Alvaro Guisado
Artistic Collaboration:  Abdellah Chakiri

Kast
Alicia Soto,
Lorenza Di Calogero,
Paloma Calderón,
Ana Lola Cosín (understudy)
Sanae Assif,
Ester Lozano

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