Scenic artist Alberto Cortés presents a creation exploring emotional burnout and the limits of bodily surrender before the audience. 🎭✨

Inspired by the 19th-century manuscript of a mysterious young woman named Ester found in the English countryside, this stage piece transforms intimate confession into an act of shared redemption.

🎭 El corazón de Ester

📅 20 to 22 November 2026

🕐 Friday and Saturday at 19:30, Sunday at 18:30

📍 Centro de Cultura Contemporánea CondeDuque, Madrid

🎟️ 22 euros

📖 A ritual of devotion and surrender

Ester's writings, recording how she wasted away through devotion to her loved ones before vanishing, mirror the artist's exposure to the public gaze and market forces. The piece questions whether a form of devotion exists that transcends sacrifice.

Drawing on the mysticism of Simone Weil, Emily Dickinson, the Brontë sisters, María Zambrano, and Anne Carson, this performance becomes both a love letter and an inquiry into queer devotion and transcendence.

🎭 A collective pact at CondeDuque

To resist being consumed by the demands of stardom, the piece is designed for a strict maximum of 50 performances worldwide, inviting the audience to know the exact number of the show they are attending.

✨ A poignant theatrical ritual examining devotion, vulnerability, and the sacred bond with the audience.