Decadencia | Traspasos
Decadence is a caustic, provocative play that haunts the audience, cornering them and often forcing them to laugh to keep from crying.
Its protagonists, two couples made up of three aristocrats and a hustler who aspires to profit from their weaknesses, are classist and racist, frivolous and heartless; they are hypocritical, banal and selfish; they act like predators; they have neither principles nor limits, though they fear that the wretches they despise will join in and attack them; their humour is sarcasm, their irony is rage; they are grotesque but dangerous and, first of all, they are unhappy, empty though they lack nothing, and neither their luxuries nor their lust fill them: no one is bitter about a twelfth, except them. And when it comes to avenging an infidelity, they do not rule out either fleecing the betrayer or committing a crime...
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Festivals
The “Xenerais da Ulla” is the most outstanding feature of the Ulla region’s traditional Carnival. It has been held in the surroundings of Santiago since the first half of the 19th century: the “Xenerais” (generals) ride on horseback, dressed in colourful military garments similar to those of that time, but they also include purely carnivalesque adornments, which the horses also wear.
The natural region of a Ulla features an original rural carnival, whose record goes back to the mid-19th century.
The parish of Angrois in Santiago de Compostela celebrates its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance.
The parish of Aríns in Santiago de Compostela celebrates on february 18 its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance..
On the afternoon of February 19, the parish of O Eixo in Santiago de Compostela celebrates its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance, which involves a stagin where different characters take part.
Within the Entroido programme of the Conxo neighbourhood, an atranque of the Xenerais da Ulla will be held.
