new imageThe search continues with a new name added to the Guillermo Heras figure. intergenerationality as one of the main lines citizen participation Workshops for children and adults creating their own productions are some of the innovations of the Contemporary Writers of Alicante XXXI Spanish Theater Exhibition. 3-11 November.
stage black boxThe dressing area, which is the preserve of the imagination, constitutes the identity axis of the poster of this edition, which combines its name with the name of Guillermo Heras, as agreed by the organizations organizing the exhibition.INAEMValencian Institute of Culture, Alicante Provincial Assembly and City Council and SGAE Foundation– at the board meeting held last July. Thus, the memory of the Madrid actor, stage director, playwright and theater manager, who died on July 12, was permanently included in the cultural project he founded and managed for 29 years.
“If the image of the thirtieth edition of the exhibition were played with the slogan: 30 times theaterThis year we are using the letters of the acronym MUTESAC -MU (Sample) T (Theatre) ES (Spanish) AC (Contemporary Authors)– as if they were four supports supporting the stage box of our imagination. This is our way Protect the place where ideas are created and anything is possible”, explained Mónica Pérez Blanquer, director of the exhibition.
This new image developed by Democracy Studycombines typographic elements and abstract stains and Different colors will be included to differenciate Four itineraries make up the programming of the XXXI edition. The full content regarding programming, training courses and complementary activities will be announced at a press conference at the Provincial Council of Alicante on October 4.
La Triustura debuts in Alicante
One of the great attractions of this edition is First opening of La Tristura company in Alicante with one of his biggest hits, Future Lovers, He will come to the exhibition from the Teatro Manager. “This large-format work brings youth to the stage and ties in perfectly with one of the main thrusts of this year’s programme. intergenerationality. Listening and transferring knowledge between people of different generations is important and enriching, but it should also be reciprocal. Young people also have a lot to say and It shows that we want to give them a voice With offers as exciting as those offered by La Tristura,” says Pérez Blanquer.
Written by Celso Giménez. Current Playwriting Development Program INAEM, This production is about six young people born around 2000 who meet on the outskirts of a big city on a summer night. This group of friends perhaps met to drink, dance, talk and kiss during the transition from high school to college. The piece invites everyone The observer finds seven differences compared to his own adolescence and youth., deciding how to relate to a question that is always complex: What were my expectations for my own life? Have these been fulfilled? Was I wrong then or am I wrong now?
Future Lovers It will be staged at the Teatro Principal in Alicante on Monday, November 6, with a cast consisting of Pablo Díaz, Manuel Egozkue, Gonzalo Herrero, Itziar Manero, Siro Ouro and Sara Toledo. Celso Giménez also received scenic and dramaturgical advice from Itsaso Arana and Violeta Gil during the creation process of the work.
will to believeBest Show Maximum Award 2023
will to believe, Large format work written and directed by Pablo Messiez and big winner Maximum Rewards This year, he will take part in the exhibition program at the Principal on November 11. It is the second production that Alicante theater contributes to the cycle.
Messiez’s last work Experiments with the limits of reality and fiction Thinking about the functioning of beliefs and faith. For this, he takes as a starting point Danish director Carlo Theodor Dreyer’s cult film from the 1950s, Ordet, adapted from Kaj Munk’s play of the same name. A story about a family where one of the children goes crazy after reading Kierkegaard obsessively and believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
“This study tells us this: belief in theaterIt explains why we need to create fiction and how the system works where we believe them when we see them on stage. “In short, it asks how reality is constructed in the theatre,” explains the director of the exhibition about this co-production with the Spanish Theatre.
Families with children are asked to create works
Within the scope of the 31st edition of the exhibition, various events will be held as well as show programs. Productions that invite citizens to participate. Thus, the Madrid director and playwright Jana Pacheco The registration period has started for families with girls or boys who want to participate in the Somos Infancia stage creation project.
Pacheco will teach hunting for five daysa workshop titled several families four hands appropriate tools will be provided so that Boys and girls write a play together with an adult. They will be the ones who choose the theme, the characters, the plot, the conflict, the argument, the magic. In the second phase of the project, adults put themselves at the service of the little ones’ wishes to help them stage their stories. The result of all this will come to life with a series of performances titled We Are Childhood It will be exhibited to the public on Saturday, November 11 house music Las Cigarreras Cultural Center.