- Purchase of Festeaf allowance (21 euros), here.
- Purchase of tickets for each performance (5 euros), here.
The Rivas Vaciamadrid Amateur Theater Festival (Festeaf) continues to celebrate its anniversary, becoming a benchmark on the national scene in the modality. This year, the Department of Culture has received 191 works, eight more than in 2023. Finally, six have been chosen to be performed on the second and third weekend of November, in the Covibar room.
The closing gala with awards ceremony will be held in the Pilar Bardem auditorium on Saturday the 23rd (8:00 p.m., free entry with invitation withdrawal on the website ventas.rivasciudad.es). Each participating company receives 1,300 euros to cover production and travel costs. There are nine awards: best group, best set design, direction, leading actress, leading actor, supporting actress, supporting actor, audience award and special jury mention. All with a diploma and trophy (a bronze with a travertine marble pedestal, by Domingo Huertes, professor of ceramics at the Popular University), except the last two, who deliver serial graphic work (donated by the cultural association Prima Littera).
Tickets cost 5 euros per performance. And there is a subscription for the six works plus the closing gala for 21 euros (it costs 3.50 euros per assembly).
1. CREATE MANZANARES SCENES (Manzanares, Ciudad Real)
‘UNDOMITED’
Friday, November 8 / 8:00 p.m.
Covibar room.
Authorship: adaptation of ‘Antigone’, by Sophocles.
Loving was his crime. Death, its sentence. Family, power. The tyrant Creon, after the fratricidal death of his nephews, heirs to the throne, becomes king and orders that the corpse of one of them not be buried so that it can be devoured by vermin. His niece Antigone decides not to comply with the order and bury her brother with dignity. Creon ignores his advisor Corypheus and orders the arrest of the person responsible. He is implacable with Antigone, who is also the fiancée of his son Hermon. A tragedy is unleashed here with a succession of deaths predicted by Tiresias, a fortune teller.
2. PLETORA THEATER (Plasencia)
‘WE HAVE TO DISMAKE THE HOUSE’
Saturday November 9 / 8:00 p.m.
Covibar room.
Author: Sebastian Junyent.
Two sisters meet to distribute the inheritance after many years without seeing each other. In that encounter, memories and emotions that they thought were forgotten and overcome come to light.
3. LA FARÁNDULA DE SAN GINÉS (Madrid)
‘ÑAQUE OR LICE AND ACTORS’
Sunday November 10 / 7:00 p.m.
Covibar room.
Author: José SanchIs Sinisterra.
Ríos and Solano, two roguish traveling actors from the Golden Age, are transported to a 21st century theater. Interacting with the public, they will talk about their lives, their adventures, their miseries and their sorrows. And they will review the history and theater of our Golden Age. Sanchis Sinisterra masterfully constructs and in exquisite Spanish a beautiful tribute to theater and the acting profession, mixing comedy, drama and tragedy in an endearing story of friendship and brotherhood.
4. THEATER EVICTION (Cuenca)
‘CHIQUILLADAS’
Friday, November 15 / 8:00 p.m.
Covibar room.
Authorship: collective creation.
Montage based on the novel ‘Enfantillages’, by Raymond Cousse. “When we are born, do we start to live or do we start to die? Is the bottle half full or half empty? Who are we? Where are we going? Where do we come from? The truth? What is the truth? With the naive, tender and accurate gaze of a child, through the keyhole, we discover, sometimes with smiles and other times with sadness, fragments of memory that mark us and inexorably determine who and how we adults are,” they explain from the theater group.
5. ALHAMA THEATER GROUP (Corella, Navarra)
‘THE WAY OF THE GREEKS’
Saturday November 16 / 8:00 p.m.
Covibar room.
Author: Juancho Arena.
Spain, September 1931. While the articles that will make up the new Constitution are being debated in Madrid, a group of feminist women meets in their town’s casino to fight to achieve women’s suffrage. The alarm that is generated among the local men is such that they request help from an expert on the subject who comes from the capital, to put an end to these movements once and for all. Will the men achieve their purpose and will the women stop the fight?
6. ART AND MEDITATION IN ACTION (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid)
‘TILINDULA. MEMORIES OF AN INVISIBLE WOMAN’
Sunday November 17 / 7:00 p.m.
Covibar room.
Author: César González.
Extremadura, 1989. All Saints’ Day. Rufina awaits a visit from Trinidad, her niece, who lives in Madrid and has just obtained her driving license. He comes to spend the day with her and, taking advantage of the situation, take a drive around the town with his aunt. His people. Town that Rufina has not seen for thirty years, since she has not left home for thirty years. During the wait, Rufina will go on a dialogic journey in search of herself with the help of Caridad, her sister, in which she will decide whether or not she is prepared to live a life beyond those four walls and the memories that inhabit them.
7. CLOSING AND AWARDS DELIVERY
Saturday November 23 / 8:00 p.m.
Pilar Bardem Auditorium.
Free with invitation on the web entradas.rivasciudad.es
Session enlivened by Ripense companies from Platear: A Rivas el Telón, Unicornio Teatro, Cuenta y Exagera, La Teadetro, Sueña Teatro, Le Mirage 2012, AJ Audiovisual and Nostálgicos de Rivas.
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Paloma Parra: a Max Prize, in the Theater Laboratory of the Amateur Theater Festival
The Teatro Laboratorio cultural program, organized by the Platear platform, joins the Amateur Theater Festival (Festeaf) this year by scheduling a free session on stage lighting. It is titled ‘Light, a Language’ and is taught by Paloma Parra, winner of the Max Prize for Illumination in 2015 for the work ‘The Dark Stone’, by Pablo Messiez, and a candidate several times.
“Through this workshop, with an important technical part,” they explain from Platear, “we want to understand and see the light as Paloma saw it when she decided to dedicate herself to this activity: ‘I fell in love when I realized that light changes the states of people’s minds and it is a language to be able to tell the stories of others and make them yours.” It takes place on Wednesday, November 13, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., in the Pilar Bardem auditorium (with registration).
Paloma Parra began her career in 1998 as a technician at the Pradillo Theater in Madrid, later touring with music, dance or theater companies. In 2008 he began making lighting designs for the playwright Pablo Messiez. And she is a regular collaborator with companies, directors and choreographers. Latest designs: ‘Only the end of the world’ (Israel Elejalde), ‘Value, grievance and woman’ (Beatriz Argüello) or ‘The evil of the mountain (Francesco Carril and Fernando Delgado). He continues to make lighting designs with his company, responsible for the technical direction of the Pilar Bardem auditorium.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 / 6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Pilar Bardem Auditorium. Gratuitous. 25 seats. Registrations: mail platearrivas@gmail.com
