PROHIBITED: 5 euros. Purchase:web entradas.rivasciudad.es and Covibar room on the day of the performance from one hour before.
FERTILIZER:21 euros. Purchase: web entradas.rivasciudad.es and Covibar room.
The Rivas Amateur Theater Festival (Festeaf) is a stage reference in the Community of Madrid after 28 years of drawing curtains and promoting performances. After receiving proposals from 183 companies, the Department of Culture has selected the six that make it to the competition. The performances are performed in the Covibar room, during the weekends of November 10 and 17. The closing gala and awards ceremony closes the event on Saturday, November 25 at the Pilar Bardem auditorium (free entry with invitation).
Tickets for each work cost five euros. You can buy a subscription for 21 euros (each piece costs 3.50 euros), which also allows access to the closing gala. 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 trophy and diploma, except the last two, which deliver serialized graphic work and a diploma.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 / 8:00 p.m.
‘BRAVO TORITO’
Áriba Theater Company (Riba-Roja del Túria, Valencia).
Author: Patxo Tellería.
Direction: Fabrizio Meschini.
Lunero, a young and inexperienced fighting bull, has just been selected for a bullfight in Granada. Running and singing to the moon through the pasture where he lives, he finds Percatao, a pardoned and experienced cow. A friendship is born between them that will lead them to the occasional confession about their lives and past. However, the future lurks and soon Lunero will leave for Granada. Knowing what awaits him, Percatao decides to help him, to change the tragic destiny of his unconscious but brave and dear friend.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 / 8:00 p.m.
‘THE MOLDY GRACES’
Compañía Alpi Teatre (L’Alfàs del Pi, Alicante).
Author: Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán. Director: Ricardo Molina.
Bacchus Poltron has three misshapen daughters full of physical defects: they are the Moldy Graces. The father wants to marry them as soon as possible and for that he meets with four gallants (as deformed or more so than Las Gracias) and proposes that they draw lots to decide which of them will be left without a partner. The men do not accept this proposition, so Bacchus suggests that they fight in a medieval joust in three parts: a fight with weapons, another hand-to-hand fight, and a final literary and poetic combat. They accept the formula, and the Moldy Graces love that four knights are going to fight a duel for them. The work shows the fun courtship process through this curious joust.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 / 7:00 p.m.
‘MURDER IN NEW YORK’
Vaya Cirio Theater Company (Manzanares, Ciudad Real).
Authorship and direction: Cristóbal del Río. New York, late 1950s. Sullivan, a famous film scriptwriter, is in the midst of a creative crisis. Secluded in his apartment, he gives free rein to his manias and his temper becomes increasingly unbearable. He never imagined that a sudden ring at his doorbell, when he was getting ready to have dinner, would transform his monotonous life into pure madness. When things go bad, they can always go worse. Now John’s challenge is to get out of this situation successfully.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 / 8:00 p.m.
‘FROM THE HEART’
Compañía Garnacha Teatro (Calamonte, Badajoz).
Author: María José Stefanía.
Director: Jesús Manchón.
‘De guts corazón’ is a disturbing and funny black comedy that deals with the division and distribution of the mortal remains of Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, better known as Saint Teresa of Jesús. With little mystique and all humanity, constructive and destructive, pious and ruthless, we are introduced to the famous character in a work that won the Raúl Moreno FATEX 2020 Theatrical Texts Prize, awarded by the Federation of Theater Associations of Extremadura. Teresa’s sisters will do the unspeakable to prevent the dismemberment of her corpse. In contrast, the characters of the abbess, the surgeon and the merchant, who embody human greed. Set in the convent of Alba de Tormes, three years after the death of the first Doctor of the Church, in 1582, it presents interior and exterior spaces with audiovisual projections on a cyclorama.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 / 8:00 p.m.
‘RON CARTER’S LAST THOUGHT’
Baranda Theater Company (Elche, Alicante).
Author: Tomás Ferrando Agulló.
Director: Sonia Sierra.
Two prisoners. Prisoners of fear, hope, memory, love. Prisoners of circumstances that lead them to enter a night of confessions and complicity. Two friends. Friends who dream, share, discuss, listen to each other. Friends for whom neither walls nor bars are a barrier that stops the dialogue that keeps them sane. Two convicted. Condemned to resignation, nightmares, loneliness, rejection. Condemned to live and die without finding a difference between one thing and the other. Two men on death row who squeeze together the last night of one of them and bare his soul to reveal the reality that no one wants to see. The truth is that few dare to denounce.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 / 7:00 p.m.
‘LA CELESTINA 1905’
Menecmos Company (Leganés, Madrid).
Author: Verónica del Río.
Director: Román Salgado.
Madrid 1905. In the Great Red Circus, Calisto the lion tamer, walks in love of the sweet and pure Melibea. Her passion is so great and her success with the young woman is so little that, following Sempronio’s advice, he goes to Celestina for help. The pimp, in cahoots with Sempronio, will hatch a plan where passion, lust and greed will mark all the members of the circus. In its latest production, the Menecmos company updates and refreshes the tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea. It brings the 15th century classic closer to a more current era, but keeps intact the plot of lustful love that has made the text continue to be remembered today. The montage misplaces Rojas’ classic in time and form, performing in a circus in decline at the beginning of the 20th century.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 / 8:00 p.m.
CLOSING GALA AND AWARDS DELIVERY
Pilar Bardem Auditorium.
Free with invitation withdrawal:in the web entradas.rivasciudad.es
Session enlivened by local companies from Platear, the platform that brings together local performing arts groups.
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Workshop: ‘Hosts with love’, fencing and stage fighting
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 / 10.00-14.00.
García Lorca Cultural Center: Marcos Ana room. Free. Inscription: platearrivas@gmail.com
The Festeaf is completed with a workshop on stage fighting, taught by Quique Inchausti, one of the best specialists in this discipline. With the title ‘Hosts with love’, a trip is proposed to acquire tools with which to face a scene/sequence of stage fighting and/or fencing (fighting with swords without risk). Through body work, dramatic play and the use of fighting and fencing techniques. Since 2000, Inchausti combines his role as an actor with that of a trainer at the La Lavandería theater school.
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