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English Language Broadcast - Idoia López talks about clowning at the Retiro - 09/08/022


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We're back on the air, and after taking a look at news from Spain, we return to our recent Retiro Park interview with Spanish multi-disciplinary performing artist and "payasa" (clown) Idoia López Callejas, whose stage name is Idoloca. Justin Coe met up with Idoia at Madrid's emblematic and centrally located park a few days after the two of them had attended a play from the Golden Era of Spanish theater in a new production by a troupe of clowns who go by the name Rhum & Company. The play, staged at Madrid's Teatro de la Comedia, was "El diablo cojuelo" (the limping devil), written by Luis Vélez de Guevara, who lived from 1579 to 1644.
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