play writer Juan Mayorga (Madrid, 1965) was the Spanish playwright at the time. Princess of Asturias Award 2022 of your letters. Mayorga, director of La Abadía theater and Academician of Language, was honored with the National Theater Award and the National Award for Dramatic Literature, in addition to five Max awards. An extraordinary curriculum to which Asturias, Princess of Letters, is now added. seven years later once again distinguishing a writer in Spanish Winning the Leonardo Padura award. Mayorga’s candidacy was proposed by Rafael González Cañal, professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and director of the Almagro Classical Theater Conference.
The jury has agreed to award the prize to Mayorga”for the immense quality, critical depth and intellectual commitment of his work: action, emotion, poetry and thought.Likewise, in the resolution, “Since its inception, Mayorga has made an offer. great renovation of the theater stageendow his work with a philosophical and moral concern that challenges our society, envisioning his work as a theater for the future and a theater for the fundamental dignity of man”.
Mayorga’s career began in 1989, when he won second prize at the Marqués de Bradomín prize with his first work, ‘Siete hombres buenos’. In this edition, Asturian playwright and actor Maxi Rodriguez won the award for his play “El color del agua”. Just four years later, in 1993, Mayorga joined the founding of the Teatro del Astillero with Raúl Hernández Garrido, a group later joined by José Ramón Fernández, Luis Miguel González Cruz and Guillermo Heras, and began staging texts born in this group. avant-garde environment. Mayorga would leave the project in 2006 and establish La Loca de la Casa five years later, where he presents works such as the famous ‘Reikavik’.
Juan Mayorga, Strong connection with Asturias through the Palacio Valdés theaterHere he premiered several of his works. Mayorga was then still in Avilés last April 30 to present his work ‘El Golem’ at the Niemeyer Center. On the eve of the premiere, Mayorga said in an interview with La Nueva España: “I always say to myself, and sometimes in public, that theater should not seek a theater that supports it if it is not. If there is a philosophical content in my work, it is something the text can or cannot explain. A series is a philosophy not because it contains positions, but because what it contains are occasions for reflection. My theater wants to make you think“.