The archaeological site where the Lady of Elche was found 125 years ago, 12-22 July on stage for classic writers with eight proposals: within four blocks Theater Teaching and four professional theatre, With plays ranging from Greco-Latin theater to English Elizabethan or Spanish classics.
Vice-Chancellor for Culture, Catherine Iliescu, presented this new issue of the festival this morning. 50,000 euro budgetAccompanied by the director of the University Archaeological Research Foundation, Alexander Ramosand Member of the Elche Cultural Council, Margaret Antony.
“The site is the best decorated place for this festival,” said Iliescu, who made his predictions. 12,000 spectators passing through this residential area in the 10th edition. “Even in 2021, there were 1,345 spectators at half capacity”, so “the expectation is that we will be able to achieve pre-pandemic figures of 2,500 spectators in 2019”.
It is “an honor” for Alejandro Ramos to host a festival “with these characteristics” on this site. “Although the Lady of Elche is the city’s introductory letter at the archaeological level, perhaps this festival is the cultural hallmark of this area”.
The archaeologist stressed that July “is the best time to visit the site; the sunset, the light, the scenery, the temperature are ideal, and if you add dinner and theatre, it’s a great plan.”
For Ramos, the programming is “excellent” because it “creates an important balance” and emphasized that the quality of Teacher’s Theater “far exceeds what people expect, and Professional Theater has an incredible level”.
“We’re already ready,” he explained. contact of locker rooms, reinforcement of archaeological structures and all security” and that the Alcudia Festival “has very loyal people” because in Elche “there are many people who are fans of the theatre, and it creates a pool of spectators”.
In this sense, Marga Antón emphasized that it is the city she owns.More amateur theater troupes from the Valencian Ensemblea city that loves theatre” and described the program as “very balanced” because “we have the talent of students and professionals”.
Catalina Iliescu emphasized that “people are starting to get to know her outside the province, especially because of her surroundings, because of the place where she is celebrated”.
manager of Alcúdia, Diego PenaHe pointed out that the Alcudia Classical Theater Festival not only benefits from cultural tourism, but also attracts residential tourism “people from outside who come in the season and attend these shows every year”.
The opening of the festival will take place on Tuesday, July 12 at 21:30, with corporate assemblies and the staging of the play. Trojan horsesIn charge of the UA Permanent University Theater Class led by the begonia you have This first performance is part of the Teatro de la Enseñanza’s first block, which will include three more works: Romeo + Juliet From the UA Theater Class (13 Wednesday); Flashes of Don Quixote de la Mancha, With Miguel Hernández University Theater Company (14 Thursday) and again Trojan horsesWith the winning version of the 5th Greco-Roman Theater Schools Competition 2022, to be staged by La Nave Argo on 15 July.
The Professional Theater block will begin on Tuesday, July 19th. Venetian merchant and the proposal and staging of Dau Al Sec company Verbo Producciones will continue Entre bobos and game 20 July. beggars A show by La Libélula Teatro will take the stage a day later and the festival will close at 22 dressing erosCoribante Producciones representative after the corporate closing ceremony half an hour earlier.
Tickets are again 5 Euros for amateur theater and 12 Euros for professional theatre.
La Alcudia-UA Classical Theater Festival has collaborations with the Generalitat Valenciana, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, the Valencian Cultural Institute, Alicante Provincial Council and Elche City Council.
professional theater
Venetian merchant – CIA DAU al sec
Tuesday, July 19
Venetian merchant It mobilizes a profound complexity of perspectives that reflect and are interrelated from the same core: the turbulent expansion of economic power and its impact on human relations. Usury, wealth, the mutual hatred of coexisting cultures, the vulnerability of strangers, and the perverted use of law form a glimpse into the rise of the capitalist system and banking in the modern sense of the term. Shakespeare It jumps from comedy to tragedy in a dizzying way, with an irony that is not obvious and is quite effective for portraying the entire social system. With Venetian merchant Shakespeare predicts the emergence of an individualistic society dominated by economic power. this DAU company to second The work was premiered on February 27, 2019, at the Sala Versus Glorias in Barcelona. Duration of work: 90 minutes.
Entre bobos and game – Verb Productions
Wednesday, July 20
In a frenetic tone of comedy and extras, this piece is a hymn to women’s freedom and their right to choose the life they have to live. Don Lucas is a wealthy man who has accepted the marriage of Don Antonio and his daughter, Doña Isabel. Although the authority imposed by the man at that time was heavy for her, she is determined not to marry. Also, Isabel is secretly in love with Don Pedro, and deliveries, misunderstandings, jealousy, arguments, lies and truth will be set up between the two lovers, which will lead us to the hilarious conclusion of this mess. Duration of work: 90 minutes. produced by Verbo Producciones and Cáceres Classical Theater Festival.
beggars – Maribel Mesón Company – La Libélula Theater
Thursday, 21 July
those who want co-production of the company Maribel Meson – Dragonfly Theater(Guareña, Badajoz), with Mérida International Classical Theater Festival. It premiered at the 67th edition of that festival on August 18, 2021. Sands of the Nile Young Danaides are forced to marry their cousins, sons of King Egypt. On the day of the ceremony, under the guidance of their father Dánao, they manage to escape such a terrible fate and cross the sea to the European shores of Greece as refugees. They will meet there and be part of another collective struggle: they will help some elderly mothers reclaim the corpses of their children killed in a war. Danaides and the mothers will march together in search of some bodies that the winner refuses to return. Duration of work: 90 minutes.
dressing eros – Coribante Productions
Friday, July 22
Eros, the god of love and passion, has been holding the strings of humanity since the beginning of time. Five souls, reincarnated after life, play in all their possibilities to live, suffer and enjoy love. But what is love? Is it the ideal embodied in Romeo and Juliet? Inspiring jealousy in two of Othello’s? The platonic love of Don Quixote? Medea’s extreme and murderous passion? The mysticism of Santa Teresa de Jesús or the fiery relationship between Don Juan and Doña Inés?
through dance-theatre, music, comedy and tragedyFrom the plasticity of bodies, flamenco and contemporary, Spanish Golden Age, Shakespearean theatre, ancient Greece and romance to the present day, we will break the law and demystify the utilitarianism of the word “love”.
dressing erosThe company’s coribante productions, It is managed by Antonio Rincón-Cano and José María del Castillo. The music was originally composed by Alejandro Cruz Benavides and choreographed by Benjamín Leiva.
Job duration: 90 minutes
Theater Teaching
Trojan horsesUPUA Theater Class
Tuesday, July 12
Begoña leads the Tenés group UA Permanent University Theater Class and it brings us this tragedy Euripidesin version Alberto ConejeroIt premiered at the Auditorium on May 31. The theme of war was very present in Greek literature, describing the bravery, greatness, or cowardice of those who fought. In this work, heroes do not appear, and what is emphasized is the role of women in war, how they came to be and how they survived after them. The Trojan women are widows and orphans, describing the misfortunes that befell them when they withdrew from the place occupied by the Greeks, and the future that awaits them. We are faced with a timeless tale of winners and losers, where war survivors are only women to be treated as spoils of war. Duration of work: 75 minutes.
Romeo + Juliet – University of Alicante Theater Class
Wednesday, July 13
this UA Theater ClassThe film, directed by Xiomara Wanden-Berghe, Romeo + Julietby William Shakespeare, from text Antonio Zurro. The premiere took place on UA’s Paraninfo on May 24. Romeo + Juliet A love story cooked in a hate pot. A hatred faced by families, peoples, nations or ideologies that prevents the purest feelings from sprouting between two young people. In the words of Xiomara Wanden-Berghe: “This work shifts our gaze to today’s youth and adults, making us think about how we relate to one another and address each other’s freedom.” Can we love what we don’t know? But above all, can we allow love? Duration of work: 70 minutes.
The Flashes of Don Quixote de la Mancha – UMH Classical Theater Group
14 July Thursday
Theatrical adaptation of one of the greatest myths of all time in Spanish literature. Behind Rocinante and passing through the most famous parts of Don Miguel de Cervantes’ universal work, Elche UMH Theater Company, takes us to La Mancha and brings us closer to this wonderful classic, imagining Don Quixote and his most important characters, an original version that is as entertaining as it is entertaining. Duration of work: 70 minutes.
Trojan horses – Argo Ship
Friday, July 15
The Trojan War is over. The victorious Greeks share the spoils: the women will be their slaves. The most sought-after are Queen Hecuba and the princesses, their daughters: Polixena, Andrómaca, and Casandra. The rest of the Trojans also await their unfortunate future. The work reflects the other painful side of war, the mothers, sisters, daughters or widows of those who died in the war. The abandonment, uncertainty, loneliness, anger, impotence and grief of loved ones who died in the most despicable act of the human race: war. La Nave Argo is a Greco-Latin classical theater group born in the USA in October 2010. Immaculate Jesuit School of Alicante. Those responsible for the school project are three teachers from the centre: Marién Navarro, Carlos Aragüez and Fernando Nicolás. Alongside numerous regional-level awards, the group has won the three-time Grecolatino National School Competition (2018, 2019 and 2022) or the amateur Prima Festum de Soria (2018); they have also performed twice in Lyon (France) and Messini (Greece). Duration of work: 70 minutes.