Impulsive love, domestic mishaps, and everyday truths take center stage in this tender and witty theatrical comedy. 🎭✨

Celebrated Italian author Natalia Ginzburg pens this work, brought to life at Teatro Español with a cast led by actress Lucía Quintana.

🎭 Me casé por alegría

📅 From November 6 to December 20, 2026 (Tuesday to Sunday)

🕐 19:30

📍 Teatro Español, Madrid

🎟️ 18 euros

📖 The comedy of daily missteps

An impulsive and somewhat chaotic young woman marries a serious, well-off man almost on a whim. What begins as a spontaneous venture quickly turns into a clash of worlds: two near-strangers attempting to build a shared life amid misunderstandings, silences, and unexpected moments of tenderness.

Through subtle irony and delicate language, the play captures the challenges of sharing existence with another person, turning domestic absurdities into a compassionate reflection on human clumsiness in love.

🎭 The brilliant voice of Natalia Ginzburg

Regarded as one of the most luminous figures in 20th-century Italian literature, Ginzburg brings psychological nuance and gentle irony to the stage with deceptively light prose and exquisite craft.

Presented at Madrid's historic Teatro Español, this staging offers a wonderful opportunity to experience her perceptive and deeply human dramatic world.

✨ A lucid invitation to smile at the contradictions of the human heart.