Els Joglars in Palma | El Retablo de las Maravillas — Auditorium

This age of the smartphone and artificial intelligence tends to foster in many people a sense of superiority that stops them accepting and understanding how tiny the gap is that separates us from our classics. In that light, the situations Cervantes presents in his interlude El retablo de las maravillas keep happening today — and even multiply in still more extreme and grotesque versions. The vast expansion of written, visual and sound media in our time is the most effective platform for crooks, impostors and scoundrels of every kind to roam freely, camouflaged as society’s gurus. From the key posts they occupy in politics, finance and culture, they can sell us empty “retablos” by playing on people’s fear of looking foolish or reactionary. No one listens any more to the children who warn us that the emperor has no clothes. Perhaps because children today are well domesticated, artists cling to public money and philosophers act as tutors of the system. Empty retablos thus take on an even greater scale, promoted by the highest institutions and sold by the media — while “each day that dawns…” Albert Boadella Language: Spanish Friday, 20 November 2026 21:00 €32

Voy Palma — Els Joglars in Palma | El Retablo de las Maravillas — Auditorium