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This Wednesday the activities that the City Council of the port city has organized around the World Theater Day. The opening ceremony began with the now traditional delivery of flowers at the statue of Isidoro Máiquez, located in the Plaza San Francisco, and I continue in the New Circus Theater with the presentation of the reissue of a book by Manuel Ponce’s journalist dedicated to the figure of the legendary interpreter: Isidoro Máiquez. The cursed actor.
Present at the event were the Deputy Mayor of the Cartagena City Council, Manuel Padin; the councilor of the Culture area, David Martinez Noguera; the councilor delegate for Culture, Carlos Piñana, and the manager of the Nuevo Teatro Circo, Isabel belmonte. The book was presented by the Cartagena actor Jorge de Juan, together with the author of the book, Manuel Ponce.
“For Cartagena it is a pride to have such illustrious people from Cartagena as Isidoro Máiquez and I think it is very important that we continue to bet on his figure,” said Martínez Noguera, who, in addition to announcing that one of the theater seats will from now on be named of the interpreter, He assured that the City Council is working on making the Nuevo Teatro Circo municipal.
As for the book, from 1995 and now reissued by Three Borders On the occasion of the bicentennial of the actor’s death, Manolo Ponce explained that it serves to bring readers closer to the story of Máiquez, who became the great theater reformer of his time and laid the foundations for theatrical performances as we know them today. «He improved the working conditions of the comedians, their salaries and their pensions. He discovered new acting skills, renewed sets and costumes, regulated the show and, above all, fought against injustice. Friend of Goya and Godoy, he faced the censors. And as a liberal, he also fought against the French on May 2, “said the author during his speech.
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