In December 1928, Federico García Lorca gave a lecture on nannies that he had heard in different parts of Spain at the Madrid Student Residence. The poet considered that lullabies are a child's first approach to literature and that they made a mark on his heart for life. They also express realities related to the domestic life of the Spain of their time and how women, who were the ones who normally sang them to their children, poured into them not only their love and concern for their children, but also their anguishes and conflicts with men and the world.
With excerpts from that conference, the company El Patio, specialized in theater of objects, has created a video creation commissioned by the National Dramatic Center (CDN), which since the confinement began has launched a large digital program that includes complete filming of Past works, live colloquiums, podcasts and brief newly created works made and recorded from the artists' houses. This one from El Patio, which Babelia premieres at the same time as the CDN, corresponds to a section entitled From my kitchen, which proposes to the creators the recreation of a repertoire work using only elements from a kitchen.
El Patio has had the collaboration of the theater company for children and young people Ultramarinos de Lucas, which has in its repertoire a show based on the same conference, with the musical interpretation of Elena Aranoa, who is also the singer in the video creation of lullabies to which Lorca refers. The piece was recorded in the kitchen of an abandoned large house in La Rioja, where El Patio is based, with objects on loan from the Momo de Logroño antique store.