After Cadiz, Menorca, Bilbao and Valladolid, this yr it was Tenerife’s flip. Performing arts individuals descended on the Canary Island to have a good time the awards organised by the Sociedad Normal de Autores y Editores (SGAE). The gala passed off within the neo-futuristic Tenerife auditorium, designed by Valencian Santiago Calatrava, which inexplicably had many empty seats. The awards have been shared out and there was a wholesome stability between veteran and well-known figures, comparable to Núria Espert or Eduard Fernández, and voices which were proving their value, comparable to Iñaki Rekarte, Fernanda Orazi or Nao Albert and Marcel Borràs.
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The massive star of the evening was, definitely, Núria Espert. Her award, the Max de Honor for her total profession, was offered by Miguel del Arco, director with whom she labored in The Rape of Lucretia and which highlighted the classical excellence of the actress, but in addition the energy of a girl who in her time was “relegated to the kitchen”. “Núria didn’t know the way to cook dinner, when her daughter was instructed if her mom didn’t know the way to make an egg, she answered if hers knew the way to make one Medea” he defined, earlier than declaring, emotionally, the love that this career professes for one in every of its nice actresses.
The applause for Núria Espert lasted greater than three minutes, “thanks for the generosity, the eagerness, thanks for a lot magnificence, for a lot sincerity, what a present,” started the Catalan actress earlier than an unwritten, brief and emotional speech, which ended with a easy: “I am keen on you, thanks.” The SGAE additionally acknowledged the play starring José Sacristán and tailored from the e book by Miguel Delibes with the Max Public Applause Award. Woman in crimson on grey background, as one of the best among the many highest grossing.
Eduard Fernández gained the award for Greatest Actor for All of the love songsthe actor mentioned he was grateful for the reception the play had obtained wherever it had been carried out, after which mentioned that he had not “been in a position to do it in Barcelona, or Lleida, or Girona, or Tarragona,” however that tonight he was “very glad.” He was referring to the problem that performs in Spanish typically have in being programmed in Catalonia. Logically, the actor forgot in regards to the topic with a small gesture and ended up dedicating to his mom the award he obtained for this monologue through which Fernández transforms into an previous girl with Alzheimer’s whom we see on stage going by her final days in a home filled with recollections.
The massive shock of the evening was the award for Greatest Actress. Vicky Luengo’s spectacular efficiency in First Face It appeared to have all of the tickets, however the award went to the Navarrese actress Natalia Huarte, who has been working for years, first from the Nationwide Classical Theatre Firm, and now with works with administrators comparable to Rekarte, Flotats or Lucía Carballal, proving that she is among the most stable actresses in our theatre. Her particular stability between approach and fragility is hanging, one thing clearly current within the piece for which she gained this award, Psychosis 4.48“A textual content written by Sarah Kane that addresses despair. A month after writing it, Kane dedicated suicide,” Huarte started by saying about this manufacturing directed by Luz Arcas.
“Thanks for recognizing that that is essential. I want we didn’t must carry out these texts, however we’ve to know the way to make clear the darkish. Please, let’s not cease supporting tradition. We have to broaden our imaginative and prescient, get out of our personal navels, get to know others. There have been individuals who got here to thank me after the play, who instructed me that they’d gone by the identical factor and that their households didn’t perceive their despair,” Huarte defined.
Though there was no clear winner, two of the works have been most acknowledged for the significance of the awards they obtained. The 2 now not so younger, Nao Albert and Marcel Borràs, lengthen their profitable profession with two Max awards. Their work Falsestuff. The dying of the musestook house the massive prize, Greatest Theatre Present, and in addition Greatest Stage Area Design. The opposite winner of the version was the present Without endfrom the Basque firm Kulunka Teatro, a collective that has been working with masks for fifteen years and placing on works of lyrical realism that proceed to realize followers.
Without end gained two awards, Greatest Playwright and Greatest Director. This final award acknowledges one of many administrators who lately has been demonstrating nice maturity and expertise in his productions, Inañi Rekarte. Rekarte, for instance, has simply premiered one of many hits of this season, The monster of the gardens. When accumulating the award, the Basque director needed to stress the constraints of the present mode of manufacturing, which implies that exhibits must be put collectively in just some weeks. “Not all exhibits will be executed in 45 days,” he mentioned, earlier than paying a well-deserved tribute to one of many lately deceased stage administrators of this nation, Ángel Gutierrez, “Ángel el ruso”, a baby of conflict who emigrated to the USSR in the course of the Civil Warfare and who returned to a democratic Spain with a formidable training in that nation. “He has lately left us, a part of this award belongs to him,” he mentioned.
One other of the massive winners of the gala was the Argentine Fernanda Orazi who took house the 2 awards for which she was nominated, Greatest New Present and Greatest Adaptation. Her work Elektrawhich premiered final yr on the Teatro de la Abadía, has toured Spain and amazed with a recent and revitalizing adaptation of the Greek basic. This Argentine, who has been exhibiting that she is superb on the stage as an actress for years, is starting to take off as a director. These two awards enhance her and her new piece, Persistencelately launched at Madrid’s Teatro del Barrio, confirms this.
A solitary denunciation towards sexual violence
Juan José Solana, president of the SGAE Basis, on piano, and Antonio Onetti, president of the SGAE, on stage, greeted the politicians current, amongst whom was the Minister of Tradition, Ernest Urtasun, celebrated the a hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of the establishment and mentioned that they’d not come to ask for something, as has occurred on different events within the institutional speech on the gala, which is used to spotlight the wants of the sector. They solely requested for one factor, “that by no means once more in any theatre or rehearsal room there be any case of sexual harassment and that theatres be a protected place for everybody”, clearly referring to the case of sexual harassment and coercion that has shocked the sector and society of the theatre director Ramón Paso. A name that no different creator addressed of their interventions.
Dance continued with the identical lack of definition as in different years, with a geographical distribution of awards the place flamenco, up to date, classical and different disciplines are all in the identical blended bag. Thus, Christine Cloux, a Swiss choreographer primarily based in Valencia, gained the award for Greatest Feminine Performer for the piece Physique aloneCatalan choreographer Ángel Durán gained the male class for Cowards; and Olga Pericet and Daniel Abreu obtained the award for Greatest Choreography for The matterthe second piece within the trilogy that the Cordovan has devoted to the guitars of the luthier Antonio Torres. The massive winner was the Madrid firm Kor’sia for its up to date dance work Mont Ventoux.
This yr, playwright José Padilla was in command of the presentation. He did so by the lifetime of one of many nice Canarian writers, Ángel Guimerá, whose dying marks 100 years this yr. The selection is dramaturgically fascinating: a Canarian who needed to to migrate to Catalonia to exit into the world and who, as well as, Padilla approached by revealing the non-heterosexual sensitivity current within the creator. However the construction of a tv awards with 23 awards to be distributed is probably not the perfect place for this dramaturgy to have the ability to penetrate and transcend. This yr’s gala was no more than appropriate.
