Breden, Simon2025-10-312025-10-312023-07Breden, S. (2023). Fuegoártico: a beautiful defeat: Jeremy James and the creation of an ensemble methodology in Madrid, 2014. En Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre (pp. 143-158). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781802078015.003.0009978180207638710.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781802078015.003.0009https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/4196During 2013–2014, Jeremy James (Théâtre du Soleil) attempted to form a large ensemble company, fuegoártico, to adapt the works of Anton Chekhov with a young cast in Madrid, Spain. In the end, only a work-in-progress showing of The Cherry Orchard, retitled Árboles 1.0,¹ was seen for a handful of sold-out performances at the now-defunct Kubik Fabrik² space in Usera, Madrid. One might wonder why it is worth discussing a project that was seen only in free work-in-progress³ showings held at a 100-seat fringe venue. In many ways, it was extraordinary enough that the fuegoártico project made it that far....engbook part2025-10-31