ALICANTE MAIN THEATER
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related to Juana Escabias. Company: Area Violet. Address: Rachel Camacho
Historically, women’s primary roles were to marry and have children. They performed in pagan theater and gradually joined cultured theater in the second half of the 16th century. Patriarchal society imposed its theses that knowledge and art belonged to humans.
Juana Escabias’ show “What a magnificent woman I am (Dramaturgas de oro)”, which took part in the 7th Alicante International Classical Theater Festival, is a theater play that touches on the life and work of Ana Caro de Mallén and her friends. María de Zayas and Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz were born in Mexico. Although not contemporary with the other two, all three exist together.
Which is the best of the Golden Age? In the verse, they compete and talk. XVII was written today. And facts and fiction are intertwined with a theatricality that seeks to make visible the difficulty of being a woman (which is not well seen) and of being separated from society. A comic-poetic event in the Alicante Stadium and a social discussion of the Madrid company Territorio Violeta.
Argentina’s Carolina Calema, Rosa Merás and Laura Ordás create a kind of mojiganga in front of a large audience with their festive touch. It’s a good starting point, with a textual, visual and interpretive progression that doesn’t convey all the liveliness, clarity and inevitable seductiveness. Still, visual scenes provide some stimulation.
Directed by Rakel Camacho, the comedians portray the theater within the theater and Escabias’ critical position. These writers advocated equality between men and women in a dark time. We are presented with a part of Sor Juana’s feminist poem “Hombres necios que acusáis” or a part of Caro’s poem “Valor, aggravio y mujer”, which reverses the myth of Don Juan and the difficulties imposed. values defended in the background.
María de Zayas’s “Betrayal in Friendship” presents Fenisa’s love, deceptions and rebellion. They talk about current writers and sing a naive ranchera. And the attitude of some cultural managers is coming to light.