Jesús Caballero is the artistic director and founder a puppet theatre company in Spain, also called of La Máquina Real, dedicated to rediscovering this long-lost genre. The puppets could perform daring acrobatic and fight scenes that would have been impossible for human actors. The shows included angels, dragons, and actions set in far-flung or imaginary places. Thanks to the inventive technical craft of the puppeteers at the time, the performances allowed for surprising special effects, characters, and locations.
“Real ” means both “royal” and “real” in Spanish, and it is not clear if the genre’s name came from its ties to the monarchy or because of its puppets’ uncanny realism. These companies specialized in intricate puppet shows that reproduced, on a smaller scale, the large operatic productions of the Spanish Court. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Spanish corrales were also home to a theatre genre that has been lost in time: la máquina real. Many of the comedies, tragedies, and dramas of that era, together with Elizabethan drama, are considered the beginning of modern North Atlantic theatre. Corrales de comedias -literally theatrical courtyards-were the open-air theatres of the Spanish Golden Age.
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