**** “A theatre masterclass. The company Mirage, led by Juan Ayala, has entered the sulphuric world of Lázaro de Tormes with tear, intention and talent. Especially with very much talent (...) Only very good actors and someone with a very pure sense of theatre, as Juan Ayala, can direct a Lázaro faithful to the text with only elements.”

Javier Villán, El Mundo (19/12/11)

 

‎“The agile staging of Ayala is dotted with effective blows of magic, sustained in the remarkable skills of Miguel Oyarzun, a complete actor: he has spark, freshness and a strong presence (...) Oyarzun and Daniel Gallardo, versatile actors, compose with talent and grace a gallery of polymorphic characters.”

Javier Vallejo, El País (14/12/11)

 

**** “Lázaro a small pearl that stands out among all the maelstrom of theatrical productions... The company Mirage brought gold of ‘El Lazarillo de Tormes’. Inspired on classic passages, they have created a wonderful collage of scenes with a rogue wonderfully presented and unfolded, ‘because we are all Lázaro’.”

20 minutos, Raquel Gómez (21/12 /11)

 

***** “The direction of Juan Ayala is silent and accurate, what is needed for Teatro Povero like LAZARO and advocated by Grotowski. The performance is excellent, although it is certainly Miguel Oyarzun, a gifted young actor, who carries the show; we can only hope that they get the opportunities they deserve to develop their talent.

Guía del Ocio, Miguel Verdú (04/03/2011)

 

“Another theatrical spin on a literary character that has so often walked on the stage. And through life. Because rogues and outcasts return evermore present in our society five hundred years after the Golden Age. That is how Mirage Theatre Company understands it, whose brilliant show LAZARO revives misery, loneliness and the cruel experiences of Lazarillo de Tormes. (...) A show, directed by Juan Ayala, oozing wit and drama on all sides, and with the addition of watching good actors, most notably Miguel Oyarzun, about whom it is highly possible we hear a great deal of good things about, in the future.”

El País, Rosana Torres (06/03/2011)

 

“Our colleagues have succeeded in interpreting Lázaro’s reality in such a personal way, from such a critical and contemporary perspective, that they have managed to build a reference model of LÁZARO to be taken into account from now on in the theatre. I left the theatre asking myself more questions about the reality we live in, perhaps because no one questions with the degree of depth this production questions when theatre is theatre.” 

Juan Diego (02/20/2011)