The Almagro International Theater International Festival has presented this Thursday the theater, music, circus or dance program of its 48th edition, which will be held from July 3 to 27. This year it brings together 48 companies from eight countries, with a total of 20 absolute and five premieres nationwide. “The splendor of those centuries was not only a matter of nobility and cutting, but also of village and street, mixing and transgression,” said Irene Pardo, the director of the contest.
The National Classical Theater Company, as every year, will have an outstanding presence. The first production of the institution under the mandate of Laila Ripoll, which relieved Lluís Homar last January, will open the festival: Fuenteovejuna, The great Lope de Veta classic, directed for the first time in the CNTC by a woman, Rakel Camacho, with a version of María Folguera. The CNTC will also show in Almagro the last work of its young company, Don Gil of Green Calzas, from Tirso de Molina, directed by the British Sarah Kane; will recover The strength, The celebrated inquiry of Lucía Carballal about Lindabridis Castle of Calderón and his own personal history; And he will show his last co -production with Cheek by Jowl, THE TWO HYDALS OF VERONA, From William Shakespeare, directed by Declan Donnellan.
Cristina Hoyos, referent of the Spanish dance, will collect the Corral Comedias award. “An art breathes with other arts such as the dances of Candil, the Zapateados and the Castañuelas that were part of the theater party at the same time as of the Jácaras, the hors d’oeuvres and the Zarabandas,” said Pardo. The tribute of the festival will be dedicated to the Morboria Theater company, “which has been traveling roads and genius for forty years,” says Pardo. And the Lorenzo Luzuriaga Award, UGT Public Services Juan Echanove.
Among the absolute premieres, Rafael Álvarez el Brujo will present Fly with the feet on the floor; The Ron Lalá company will carry its new collective creation, The Distrushing ‘ with Dramaturgy of Álvaro Tato and direction by Yayo Cáceres; Emilio Gavira and David Luque will show ‘La Gatomaquia’ by Lope, and Raúl Losánez will propose some Gold dialogues about golden texts and scores.
In this edition, the festival is committed to diversity from several approaches. On the one hand, about thirty women lead proposals from dramaturgy, including Andrea Jiménez (Casting Lear), Eva of the palace with (What are women), Ana López Segovia (Queen Brava), Gonzala Martín (Licenciado Vidriera) or Ana Vélez (The great comedy of the second Celestina). There will also be space for sexual and gender dissidents with The jácara of the impossible bodies, by Alberto Velasco, the The king of the show, A cabaret devised and starring Ángel Ruiz.
Foreign companies and creators will also appear. Portuguese Chapitô bring their irreverent Rey Lear’. The Uruguayan company the shed premieres its version of The dog of the gardener, Directed by Chepe Irisity. or the China Yiling Art Studio, directed by Zhou Zhengzhong, presents ECÓPERA DON JUAN, based on The mocker of Seville. There will also be Mexican presence Sorcerer duel (Jengibre Theater) and Argentina That crazy pocket cast (Amichis).
In addition, the Almagro Festival has prepared in collaboration with the CNTC a special proposal: Genias, An audiovisual installation that proposes to listen to the voices of the authors and the great female characters of the Golden Age – and some pearl of the 19th century – through the image and voice of great ladies of the current scene. The new edition also coincides with the recent Reopening of the National Museum of Performing Arts, which will remain open throughout the contest.