The Lope de Vega Theater opens the first quarter of the year with the help of the actress Concha Velasco, who will upload the work to the stage Mary’s room on February 5, 6 and 7. The program for this quarter, which will run until March 27, has a total of eight shows and a variety of genres, such as theater, music, zarzuela and dance.
“With this calendar we begin the progressive transformation of the Lope de Vega Theater, led by its new director, Carlos Forteza, with a program that encourages the multidisciplinary nature of this scenic space and allows it to reach new audiences while consolidating its position in the reference circuit of the national network of theaters ”, said the delegate of Urban Habitat, Culture and Tourism of the City Council, Antonio Muñoz.
After the delivery of the 33 Andalusian Cinema Awards that the Andalusian Association of Cinematographic Writers and Writers (Asecan) will celebrate in the nonagenarian theater tomorrow Saturday, the Lope de Vega will start its quarterly program with Mary’s room, comedy that, under the direction of José Carlos Plaza, has as the only interpreter the actress Concha Velasco. Written by the actress’s son, Manuel Martínez Velasco, the action takes place on the 80th birthday of its protagonist, the writer Isabel Chacón, who will have to deal with her agoraphobia throughout the 70-minute show .
New reading of the classic Little women
The theater will be the protagonist again on February 20 and 21 with the assembly In the words of Jo… Mujercitas, Free version by Lola Blasco –National Dramatic Literature Award 2016– and directed by the Sevillian Pepa Gamboa in a production at the Spanish Theater in Madrid. The work reflects the process of writing one of the most famous pieces of all time, starting from the censorship suffered by the author herself (Louisa May Alcott) in 1880 and offering a new and exciting reading full of humor in which it is given account of female courage, of those revolutions capable of changing an era.
The theatrical programming for the month of February closes the comedy Cephalus and Pocris (February 26, 27 and 28), by Calderón de la Barca, in a version premiered at the latest edition of the Almagro International Classical Theater Festival, by the Teatro del Velador company. Directed and dramatized by Juan Dolores Caballero, this burlesque and absurd version tells us about the power between man and woman, between king and vassals in a display of theatrical artifice and literary wit.
Maids They are entitled the last theatrical production of this first quarter. Paco Bezerra covers and translates the text by Jean Genet that, this time, Ana Torrent, Alicia Borrachero and Jorge Calvo under the command of Luis Luque. On March 13 and 14, they will present on the Lope de Vega stage the story of the sisters Claire and Solange, servants of a lady of the French upper bourgeoisie.
The dance takes the stage of the Lope
On March 21, dance with dance will be added to this multidisciplinary program Great Bolero by Jesús Rubio, choreography for twelve dancers (6 from Madrid and 6 from Barcelona) co-produced by Los Teatros del Canal and Mercat de les Flors, winner of the MAX Award for Best Dance Show in the 2020 edition. A piece about effort and the pleasure of resisting, a dance to celebrate the time and space that we share that Rubio directs and that, since its premiere in 2019, has toured some of the most important theaters and festivals in Europe.
Flamenco jazz
The first musical appointment of the program will star the duo formed by the pianists Chano Domínguez and Diego Amador, who will take the stage on February 13. Masters and ambassadors of the so-called flamenco jazz, will carry out a review of their extensive repertoires in this appointment with the Sevillian public.
The last date of the term will also be dedicated to music. On March 27, flamenco and jazz flautist and saxophonist Sergio de Lope will present his album Being of light, with the accompaniment to the dance of Patricia Guerrero. Guitar, bass, percussion, song and dance will surround the Cordovan instrumentalist to give life to the compositions of this work, an allegation to the musical memory of the peoples in which flamenco is the protagonist.
The zarzuela will not be lacking in the announced period either. The Seville Company of Zarzuela will present The homeland girl on March 6 and 7; One-act zarzuela premiered in 1907, with music by Ruperto Chapí and libretto by Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, the action of which takes place in an attic in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.
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