"Els Buonaparte" at the Teatre Akadèmia

After invading the Iberian Peninsula and dethroning the Bourbons, Napoleon Bonaparte placed his older brother Joseph on the throne of Spain and the Indies.

José I arrived in Madrid on July 20, 1808. On the 29th, nine days later, the victory of the Spanish army in Bailén caused revolts against the new monarch that forced him to flee Madrid. Joseph takes refuge with his court in Vitoria. Napoleon, learning of his brother's escape, travels from Paris to Vitoria to demand his immediate return to Madrid.

Here begins a sharp and rigorous dialectical battle, where history will be written, but underneath it will appear, almost like a great farce, everything that is hidden; desires, reasons, insecurities, the purest idealism mixed with the most human frailty, turning one and the other into a cluster of deficiencies and needs, listened to by a servant who watches and interferes with wise survival. It is a play by actors, of great physical and emotional intensity where intelligence will try to make its way through the almost vaudevillian imperatives of the situation.