The Gran Teatro Consortium embarks for the first time in a theatrical co-production with four shows that will reach the public at the next edition of the Cáceres Classical Theater Festival. These first grants will be for the shows of Extremadura companies ‘Self-portraits of pen and sword’, by Karlik Danza; ‘Between bobos walks the game’, by Verbo Producciones; ‘El caballero de Olmedo’, from La Barraca; and ‘The Golden Age and the Sephardic diaspora’, by Milo Ke Mandarini.
The productions have been selected from twelve projects submitted to the public call for aid to the production of theater, dance and music opened on September 30, with a budget of 75,000 euros.
‘Self-portraits of pen and sword’, by Karlik Danza, which will have a production grant of 25,000 euros, will offer through theater, dance and audiovisual creations a journey through the lives and works of four of the most representative playwrights from the Golden Age (María de Zayas, Ana Caro, Ángela de Acevedo and Leonor de la Cueva) and will discover the seventeenth century Extremaduran poet Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán.
Verbo Producciones, for its part, will have a grant of 23,000 euros to mount its free version of ‘Entre bobos anda el game’, by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, which will propose a feminist vision of the popular comedy of tangles in which the character de Doña Isabel will show herself as a more confident and demanding woman with her rights.
La Barraca, the company of the dancer and choreographer Jesús Custodio, will take to the territory of flamenco and Spanish dance ‘El caballero de Olmedo’, in an original proposal, the most representative tragicomedy of Lope de Vega. For this, it will have a public contribution of 22,000 euros.
Finally, the traditional music group Milo Ke Mandarini, founded by Carlos Ramírez, will receive a grant of 5,000 euros for its theater and music show ‘El Siglo de Oro y la diaspora sefardí’, in which it intends to link some outstanding authors with music in the Jewish-Spanish diaspora.
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