All the plays on the programme will be performed in the Matilde Salvador Room of La Nau Cultural Centre at 19:00. Tickets can be booked in advance at La Tenda de la Universitat venues (La Nau and the three UV campuses) or on the website www.latenda.es/entrades 

In addition, as usual, on Wednesdays there will be a post-show discussion with the company of the play performed.

On 17 October, the University Theatre Exhibition, and with it the autumn programme, will open with a dramatised reading of the play 'Karen frente al espejo o el infierno sabe a dulce navideño', winner of the latest Creative Writing Awards in the theatre category, organised by the Information and Promotion Service for Students (Sedi). Written by Amancay Moliner, it will be performed by the students of the Performing Arts Club under the direction of Carla Chillida and Margarida Mateos.

The Exhibition also includes the performance of two of the UV's own productions and, as a visiting university, will welcome the students of the Theatre Club of Alacant.

From 18 to 20 October, ASSAIG-Grup de Teatre of the Universitat de València will return to the stage of the Matilde Salvador with the play 'Escolta'm', by Emili Chaqués and directed by Pep Sanchis. On 24 and 25 October, the Grup de Dansa of the UV, led by choreographer Toni Aparisi, will perform the show 'Elionor de Villena'.

On 26 October, the Theatre Club of the University of Alacant will close the university exhibition with the play 'Romeo + Juliet', a free version of Shakespeare's  masterpiece by Alfonso Zurro, directed by Xiomara Wanden.

‘De-mentes': art, politics and mental health
According to the director of the Performing Arts Club, professor Laura Monrós, "the autumn programme of the Club has been designed in dialogue with the exhibition 'La Nave de los Locos' because it wants to explore mental health, but it also does so from a broader perspective such as artistic minds, political madness or manipulation".

Thus, in November, Emili Chaqués will return with the play 'Vincent', by L'últim toc teatre (2 and 3 November), which will explore the artistic mind of the prolific painter Vincent van Gogh, one of the greatest exponents of European post-impressionism.

Politics and its influence on the collective imagination will be another field to be discovered through the plays 'Bannon' (30 November and 1 December), with text and direction by Eva Zapico and Miguel Ángel Sweeney, about political manipulation; ‘On tyranny' (14 and 15 December), by Oscar Intente, for Globus and Terrassa City Council, directed by Carles Grau, which aims to unravel the construction of society through political madness; and 'The box (where reality loses its limits)', with text and direction by Désirée Belmonte, and performed by Teatro de La Catrina, looks into the intricacies of mental health.

Award-winning plays and Escalante
On the other hand, also in November, there will be space for other theatrical genres and different themes with two award-winning plays and the 'Ciclo de memoria histórica' by Teatro Escalante with which the Aula de la UV collaborates and which will be held from the 14 to the 20 (www.escalantecentreteatral.dival.es).

On 9 and 10, La col-lectiva imaginària will stage the play 'Cuirasses', with text by Sara Acàmer and María Albelda, and direction and dramaturgy by Javier Sahuquillo and Andrea Caloxe. Cuirasses', winner of the Theatre Contest Vila de Mislata 2021, tells "everyday shells made of silences, evasion mechanisms, fictions, escapes and distances, and talks about the need for words and expression through art, gesture and the gaze".

‘Històries amb minúscules', with text and direction by Amparo Vayá, and performed by Kala Teatre (23 and 24 November), won the Award of Teatre Breu in Valencià Evarist Garcia for telling the small experiences and stories that take place in the great moments that have marked History, like a matrioshka, thus constructing a parallel and global reality.

The great artistic and cultural project of the Universitat de València this 2022, the exhibition 'La Nave de los Locos. Una odisea de la sinrazón‘, (The ship of fools. A not reasonable odyssey) thus generates another programme that, together with cycles of debates, cinema and music, aims to break the clichéd image of social danger linked to madness to deal with one that is much more related to the arts and thought.