A dozen productions, with 16 performances, aimed at audiences of all ages, from babies to adult spectators, made up the offer this Thursday at the Castilla y León Theater Fair, which is held in Ciudad Rodrigo, and that reaches its equator.
The little ones were precisely the first summoned of the day to participate in a sensory journey through the sounds of nature in ‘PicoPiu’, by the Portuguese company Passos e Compassos in Espacio en Rosa. The Teatro Nuevo Fernando Arrabal also received the Andalusians from Claroscuro Teatro, who represented ‘El cielo de Sefarad’, a puppet show, masks and live music for children over the age of six about the expulsion of the Sephardic people in fifteenth-century Spain.
Starting in the morning, the little ones also enjoyed the different activities displayed in the children’s entertainment program ‘Divierteatro’, which runs until Saturday in the Plaza del Buen Alcalde and Plaza del Conde, reports ICAL.
The absolute premiere of the day, ‘Restos de un naufragio’, by Producciones Viridiana, was a tribute to the writer Manuel Vicent through a text with quotes taken from his literature and his facet as a columnist. The staging was put together with dramaturgy by Jesús Arbués and Javier García on stage in the Sala Tierra.
The poster continued with second chances to attend proposals already represented in yesterday’s session. Brama Teatro, repeated its itinerant and intimate production ‘Happy Widows’ in the surroundings of the Plaza Mayor in Mirobrigo; Alúa Teatro offered new installments of the show that highlights the importance of the neighboring Siega Verde site in ‘Los secretos de la piedra’; and Internal Noise returned with his ‘Cervantes, enchanted’ two shows for 25 people in the Misioneras-Santa Teresa assembly hall.
Five other companies showed their latest shows at the Mirobrigens event, beginning with Madrid’s Factoría Teatro, which represented ‘El Marqués de las Navas’ at the Teatro Nuevo Fernando Arrabal, an unpublished sitcom by Lope de Vega set in the Court of Felipe II and inspired by real events. As part of the open-air programme, the Andalusian band La Banda de Otro proposed a particular and humorous ‘Rodeo’ far from the Far West in which languages such as music, circus and theater coexist, in the Bologna Gardens.
Once again in the room production block, the Asturian Higiénico Papel Teatro tackled ‘Cuarteto’, the work by the German Heiner Müller inspired by ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, by Choderlos de Laclos, once again a multidisciplinary work that combines music, dance, interpretation and live audiovisual production in the Espacio Afecir. Itinerant in nature, starting at Plaza del Castillo, the Extremaduran artists Teatrapo & Berzosax combined music with humor in ‘Swing and Show’ between sounds from New Orleans and two masters of ceremonies with a lot of humor. The poster for this third day of the Theater Fair closes with the Valencian L’Om-Imprebís and their ‘Today we don’t premiere’ in the Patio de los Sitios, a staging that speaks precisely of theater and its ability to change people’s lives.
Presentations for professionals
The parallel activities offered different presentations aimed at professionals. The first served to vindicate the discipline of scenic oral narration through the Association of Professionals of Oral Narrative in Spain (AEDA) in Santa Teresa. In a second call, the department head of the Performing Arts and Music Unit of the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions (AAIICC), Isabel Pérez, presented the reality of the performing arts in that autonomous community, at the Conde Rodrigo hotel .
Lastly, companies from Castilla y León were presented, an initiative that has been repeated at the Theater Fair for 12 years. On this occasion, Lunatic Productions from Salamanca (‘Viola Odorata’) and Valladolid’s Lúpulo Teatro (‘Matar a Francis’) broadcast their latest projects, also at the Conde Rodrigo hotel.
2023-08-24 23:46:56
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