After several months of training and several dramatized tours through the city of Móstoles, we arrived at the icing on the cake: the reenactment by the students of the Móstoles Theater School of the historical events that took place on May 2, 1808.
On May 1, starting at 12:00 p.m., the “costumbrista scenes” took place, beginning in Cuartel Huerta Park, continuing at the Hermitage of Our Lady of the Saints, and ending in Plaza de España.
On May 2, at 8:00 p.m., the reenactment of the historical events that took place on May 2, 1808, took place through its protagonists, the people of Móstoles, and historical figures such as its mayors, Andrés Torrejón and Simón Hernández.
This year’s performance was called “1808 Blood and Sand” and is written and directed by David Fernández (Fabu), a member of Yllana Productions.
Our company wanted to create a complete show, featuring the collaboration of the Banda de La Estrella. More than 50 musicians participate live in the performance, directed by Beatriz Álvarez. Popular music articulates this journey from our present moment to the historical events that occurred in 1808 in Móstoles.
Synopsis: Almudena is a 21st-century teenager who would rather be at the Móstoles festival than study history, a subject she finds distant and boring. However, for her next exam, she has a subject that has no interest at all: the Peninsular War.
What Almudena doesn’t imagine is that, while she reluctantly studies, the ghosts of the past will appear to her. These specters will take her on a journey through time that will completely change her perspective. Through this experience, you will discover the crucial importance of the events that took place in Móstoles in 1808, when the mayors signed a proclamation that became a cry of resistance against the Napoleonic occupation.
This symbolic gesture marked a turning point in the history of Spain, inspiring key movements such as the drafting of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812. Thanks to this legacy, Almudena will understand that the values of freedom, justice, and democracy that we take for granted today have their roots in that historic moment.
Thank you, Móstoles, for giving us the opportunity to be part of your history!
