CULTURE.- The University of Jaén hosts from November 16 to 26 the XII Meeting of University Theater Classrooms ENATU 2021, which it has organized since 2007 within the framework of the Atalaya Project, financed by the General Directorate of Universities of the Junta de Andalucía . Although this edition should have been held in the spring of 2020, the health situation caused by COVID-19 has led to its delay to autumn 2021.
In the presentation of this meeting, the Vice-rector for Projection of Culture and Sports of the UJA, Felipe Serrano, has declared that, in this way, Andalusian university theater groups return to the scene in person with varied proposals, although marked by the health crisis situation experienced. In this sense, explained that each group will present its own characteristics and circumstances, in most cases premiering works, although some universities present works in progress.
For her part, Marta Torres, Director of the Secretariat for Cultural Activities and the University Program for the Elderly, has also highlighted this return to face-to-face, recalling that last year the activities framed in the Atalaya Project ‘Universities could not be developed in person either. Andalusians on Stage ‘, although, despite the cancellation of the Andalusian University Theater Circuit and the Meeting of University Theater Classrooms, both plays by the participating groups and training content held within the framework of the this project throughout its years of execution. Regarding the Assembly of Theater Classrooms, a meeting point where the different groups receive training and analyze the university stage space, he recalled that in the past 2020/21 academic year it was developed virtually in each of the Andalusian universities thanks to the annual pooling meeting as well as through the different online training workshops organized by the different universities.
Likewise, he referred to the three theater groups that exist in the UJA, Mamadou Theater, In Vitro Theater and the Theater Workshop of the University Program for the Elderly, integrated in the ‘Theater Classroom’, inserted in turn in the Diploma of University Extension in Culture and Sports. “This is the academic-cultural framework where specific training activities are carried out such as the UJA Theater Club, which this course has 60 registered students, or the theater workshops,” he declared.
Program
The program begins this Tuesday the 16th with the Agora of Theater of the Aula la Experience of the University of Seville, which will represent the play ‘Los ciegos’, an adaptation of the play by Maurice Maeterlinck (1890), version by Julia Moyano. On Wednesday, November 17, the Theater and Dance Group of the University of Granada will offer a talk about the show ‘Having the head of birds’, by Rafael Hernández del Águila. On Thursday 18th, the UJA Mamadou Theater group will stage ‘Neighborhood for a Crisis’, by Various Authors. On Friday the 19th, the Theater Hall of the University of Huelva will represent ‘Ways to face a pandemic’, Own texts.
Already next week, on November 22, another of the UJA groups, in this case In Vitro Teatro, will represent ‘Vida, limited society’, by various authors. On Tuesday 23rd, videos will be screened and a talk will be held about the show ‘Cápsulas de cineteatro’, by La Escalera de Teatro of the Pablo de Olavide University. On Wednesday 24, the UCO Theater Group of the University of Córdoba will perform the play ‘Four hearts with brake and reverse’, by Enrique Jardiel Poncela. Finally, on Friday the 26th, the third group of the UJA, PUM Teatro (Senior University Program), will stage ‘Faranduleando’, by various authors. All performances will take place at 8.30 pm, in the Aula Magna of the Las Lagunillas Campus. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.
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