{"id":8567,"date":"2026-06-05T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultura.uc3m.es\/eventos\/on-a-night-like-this-3\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:53:13","slug":"on-a-night-like-this-3","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/cultura.uc3m.es\/en\/eventos\/on-a-night-like-this-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UC3M Theater Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> July 5, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/getafe.es\/placemarks\/hospitalillo-de-san-jose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hospitalillo de San Jos\u00e9<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C. Hospital de San Jos\u00e9, 28901 Getafe, Madrid<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Abel Gonz\u00e1lez Melo<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;On a Night Like This<\/i>,&#8221; written by <strong>Luisa Josefina Hern\u00e1ndez (Mexico)<\/strong>, is a play that explores the impact of everyday life, personal memory, and human tensions through a poetic and deeply human theatrical language. Performed by the <strong>UC3M Theater Group<\/strong> under the direction of <strong>Abel Gonzalez Melo<\/strong>, the play offers a sensory and reflective journey that raises questions about identity, presence, and community. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>On a night like this<\/em>, it plunges us into the magical world of the countryside, amid curious superstitions, supposed miracles, and plenty of mischief. With sensitivity and humor, throughout various scenes, characters parade before us who seem to have been plucked from Mexican muralism, a Valle-Incl\u00e1n-esque grotesque, or a medieval farce: beings without a place, timeless, who traverse the ages carrying the hope of love on their backs, with the desire to heal themselves, guided by some spurious interest or by a powerful faith in the afterlife. The author conceives this fable of longings and deceptions for a group of performers who move from one situation to another. Our production draws on the linguistic and dramatic richness of Luisa Josefina Hern\u00e1ndez\u2014a master of the Spanish-American stage\u2014to engage with theater, to observe this gallery of characters with tenderness and wonder, and to savor the enigma and the ritual in the glow of the light and accompanied by a guitar.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Luisa Josefina Hern\u00e1ndez was a renowned Mexican playwright, novelist, essayist, and translator. She studied literature with a specialization in drama at the School of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1955. She was part of a generation of intellectuals that included Emilio Carballido, Rosario Castellanos, and Sergio Maga\u00f1a, among others. Rodolfo Usigli appointed her to the chair of Dramatic Theory at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM, where she became the first and only woman in the 20th century to be named professor emerita. In 1971, she won the Magda Donato Prize for *Nostalgia de Troya*, and in 1982, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for *Apocalipsis cum figuris*. Her masterpiece of dramatic work is, for many, the twelve-part saga \u201cLos grandes muertos.\u201d She was the recipient of the Juan Ruiz de Alarc\u00f3n National Theater Prize in 2000 and the National Prize for Science and the Arts in the field of Linguistics and Literature in 2002. One month after her death, the Senate of the Republic honored her with the Rosario Castellanos Literary Merit Award for the year 2022.       <\/p>\n<p><b>Cast<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Claudia Bonet, Mat\u00edas Garc\u00eda Cirujano, Elia G\u00f3mez Morate, Clara Guerra Diez, Iv\u00e1n L\u00f3pez Moya, Jos\u00e9 Carlos Mar\u00e1n, Sara Mart\u00ednez Arroyo, Mariana Medina, Irene Ortiz, \u00c1lvaro Penella de Salas, Auba Plomer, Cl\u00edo Ramos Rodr\u00edguez, Fabien Antoine Sebastian Schmitt, and Luc\u00eda Sim\u00f3n Rom\u00e1n<\/p>\n<p><b>Creative Team<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> Luisa Josefina Hern\u00e1ndez<br \/>\n<strong>Director:<\/strong> Abel Gonz\u00e1lez Melo<br \/>\n<strong>Sound Space, Vocal Training, and Guitar Mastery:<\/strong> Antonio Due\u00f1as<br \/>\n<strong>Costumes and Set Design:<\/strong> Javier Chavarr\u00eda<br \/>\n<strong>Choreography:<\/strong> Claudia Bonet and Irene Ortiz<br \/>\n<strong>Assistant Directors and Acting Coaches:<\/strong> Laura Gonz\u00e1lez Cort\u00f3n and Mar\u00eda Colibr\u00ed<br \/>\n<strong>Technical, Management, and Production Team:<\/strong> UC3M Culture Department and Auditorium<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS UC3M Theater Group Date: July 5, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. Location: Hospitalillo de San Jos\u00e9 &#8211; C. 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