Las últimas - Centro Dramático Nacional

Las últimas

Created by Cross Border Writer and director Lucía Miranda

8 MAY – 21 JUN 2026
From Tuesday to Sunday at 8.00 pm | Runtime 1h 45 min aprox.

Post-show talk:
Thursday 14, Tuesday 19 (matinée) and Thursday 28 MAY
Thursdays 4, 11 y 18  JUN

Accessible performances:
11 and 12 JUN SUB+AD+AA
Matinée:
Tuesday 19 MAY at 12.00 pm

Show in English, Tagalog, and Spanish with subtitles in Spanish and English.

Valle-Inclán Theatre | Sala Grande

Please arrive well in advance as the auditorium will be closed once the performance has begun.
To collect tickets, our box offices will be open from Monday to Sunday from 2.30 pm to 8.30 pm.

TEAM

Created by

Cross Border

Text and Direction

Lucía Miranda

Cast

Juan Paños, Belén de Santiago, Laurence Aliganga, Chris Angelous Manalo, Julia Enríquez, , Alexandra Masangkay, Miriam Montilla, Juan Paños, Belén de Santiago y Tuna Universitaria Complutense

Set Designer

Alessio Meloni

Lighting Designer

Pedro Yagüe

Costume Designer

Anna Tusell

Sound Designer

Eduardo Ruiz "Chini"

Musical Composition

Nacho Bilbao

Music Direction

Laurence Aliganga and Nacho Bilbao

Video Staging

Javier Burgos

Assistant Director

Anahí Beholi

Character Makeup

Johny Dean

Assistant Director

Anahí Beholi

Set Assistant

Anahí Beholi

Lighting Assistant

Elena Alejandre

Costume Assistant

David Degea

Surtitles

Juan Ollero

Interns

Talía del Val (Direction) and Elvira Arcos (Mediation)

Trainees

Carlo Laureana (Dramaturgy) and Harold Ron Farhardo (Sound)

Poster Design

Emilio Lorente

Trailer and Photography

Bárbara Sánchez Palomero

Producer

Centro Dramático Nacional

With the collaboration of

Peta (Philippine Educational Theater Association), Embassy of the Philippines in Spain and Instituto Cervantes in Manila.

About the show

An ensemble marked by the relationship between Spain and the Philippines (or it was Maharlika?).  461 years of history through works of art: the unveiling of a statue of “the last ones of the Philippines” in 2020, Imelda Marcos and Carmen Polo at a cocktail party in El Pardo, a very particular exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Retiro, Sor Jerónima de la Asunción and her nuns embarking on a galleon, Magellan the conqueror (or was it Julio Iglesias?) dying at the hands of Lapu Lapu, words better left unspoken, conversations that are hard to have, and mothers who bring out the karaoke when life gets ugly.

And life does get ugly, quite often.


Note from the author and director

Three days before I took my flight to the Philippines to do the research for this piece, my mother told me she had cancer. When I landed and got into the car with J-mee Katanyag, the director of Peta, our partner company in Manila, I broke down crying: “Right now I don’t give a shit about colonialism. Right now the only thing that matters to me is my mother.”

The next day, J-mee brought me Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal’s book, a cornerstone of the Philippines’ independence from Spain. And there it was, in the prologue: cancer and the mother, the motherland. In the Philippines, nature fights to break through the asphalt, like my mother’s cancer cells fighting to reproduce.

Las últimas is my most personal work, and also the one that has required the most research (40 people interviewed). It’s a mix of documentary theatre at its purest  — the verbatim work we’ve done demands a word-for-word transcription and embodiment of the characters — and fictional speculation  at its wildest, because, as Françoise Vergès says: “A decolonial exercise consists of imagining what other forms of exhibition and representation could be.”

It speaks about the shared history of the Philippines and Spain, about inheritance, and about what we do with it. Las últimas is my personal panata: a team inviting an audience to invoke the gods of theatre, to see if, together, we can manage to heal that mother—whoever she may be for each of us.

Lucía Miranda

TEAM

Created by

Cross Border

Text and Direction

Lucía Miranda

Cast

Juan Paños, Belén de Santiago, Laurence Aliganga, Chris Angelous Manalo, Julia Enríquez, , Alexandra Masangkay, Miriam Montilla, Juan Paños, Belén de Santiago y Tuna Universitaria Complutense

Set Designer

Alessio Meloni

Lighting Designer

Pedro Yagüe

Costume Designer

Anna Tusell

Sound Designer

Eduardo Ruiz "Chini"

Musical Composition

Nacho Bilbao

Music Direction

Laurence Aliganga and Nacho Bilbao

Video Staging

Javier Burgos

Assistant Director

Anahí Beholi

Character Makeup

Johny Dean

Assistant Director

Anahí Beholi

Set Assistant

Anahí Beholi

Lighting Assistant

Elena Alejandre

Costume Assistant

David Degea

Surtitles

Juan Ollero

Interns

Talía del Val (Direction) and Elvira Arcos (Mediation)

Trainees

Carlo Laureana (Dramaturgy) and Harold Ron Farhardo (Sound)

Poster Design

Emilio Lorente

Trailer and Photography

Bárbara Sánchez Palomero

Producer

Centro Dramático Nacional

With the collaboration of

Peta (Philippine Educational Theater Association), Embassy of the Philippines in Spain and Instituto Cervantes in Manila.

Biography

Lucía Miranda

Lucía Miranda

(Valladolid, 1982) Stage director, playwright and arts educator.  She is the founder of Cross Border, a pioneering company in Spain known for its work in community-based performing arts.

Among other accolades, she received the El Ojo Crítico Theatre Award from RNE in 2018. She has directed productions at the Thalia Theatre in New York, the Teatro Sánchez Aguilar in Ecuador, Microtheater Miami, Teatro de La Abadía, Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, Veranos de la Villa and the Centro Dramático Nacional, earning awards such as the ACE and HOLA prizes in New York and the UN Women Latin America Award for her work against gender violence. She is currently touring with Caperucita en Manhattan, an adaptation of the novel by Martín Gaite.

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As a playwright, she has published Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta (finalist for Best Playwriting at the Max Awards 2019) and Casa with Ediciones Antígona, shows that she has also directed. She co-wrote and performed in País Clandestino, which has toured in seven countries.

As an arts educator, she has led Applied Theatre projects across the United States, Latin America, Europe and Africa. Since 2020, she has coordinated Nuevos Dramáticos, the Dramático’s children’s theatre programme, and is co-founder of Yo Cuento, the theatre lab at the Niño Jesús Children’s Hospital.

She holds a Master’s degree in Theatre and Education from New York University and is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab in New York.