Els Joglars will receive the award for this edition, which will be held from August 5 to 25 and with a pre-pandemic rhythm
“Living with light in the dark and turning the summer nights of San Javier into a great party will be our goal,” Mayor David Martínez assured this Wednesday, during the presentation of the 52nd edition of the San Javier Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance, which It will be held from August 5 to 25. This time it will return to pre-pandemic normality and will feature fifteen shows: nine plays, a dance choreography, a concert, a children’s play and three outdoor shows in San Javier, La Ribera and La Manga del Mar Menor. In addition, the Festival Prize will be awarded to the Catalan company Els Joglars, “in recognition of 60 years of theater career and its contribution to the world of performing arts in our country,” said David Martínez, director of the Festival. The company will go on stage at the Parque Almansa Auditorium on August 11 ‘Let Aristófanes come out!’ Under the direction of Ramón Fontserè, a tribute to the king of comedy, Aristophanes, and a critical look at the limits of morality and freedom of expression are presented.
Two international shows will stop in San Javier. Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta will be in charge of opening this summer cultural event on August 5 with ‘Tocororo’. «What lover of contemporary dance hasn’t heard of ‘Tocororo’? Premiered in 2003 at the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, ‘Tocororo’, a Cuban fable with a sharp autobiographical accent that marked the beginning of Carlos Acosta as a choreographer, became a great success with the public,” said David Martínez, director of the festival. , about «an authentic delicacy, now served by the Acosta Danza company». The other proposal will come from France, with Les Spectacles del 23, which presents ‘Hito’ (August 16), a street show full of humor and circus. The Murcian company UpArte will also carry out its own circus proposal, ‘Desprovisto’, on August 22 in Puerto Tomás Maestre (La Manga del Mar Menor). ‘Aquiles’ by La Fam Teatre, will walk along the Paseo de Colón (Santiago de la Ribera) on August 12. Two days later, the cultural center of this same coastal town will host ‘The Bremen Musicians’, by Nacho Vilar Producciones.
We will have to get serious to enjoy ‘La infamia’, on August 17, on the night of THE TRUTH. The montage is based on the book ‘Memories of an infamy’, by the Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, kidnapped and tortured by the police in 2005 for denouncing a committed network of pederasty. The author and José Martret, director of the play, adapt the text to turn it into a monologue performed by the Murcian actress Marta Nieto.
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‘Tocororo’.
Acosta Dance. August 5. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €20 and €25. -
‘Villa and Mars’.
Ron Lala. August 7th. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €18 and €22. -
‘Antigone’.
San Javier Theater Group. August 9. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €12 and €15. -
‘What comes out Aristophanes!’.
Els Joglars. August 11. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €18 and €22. -
‘Achilles’.
The Family Theatre. August 12. 22 hours. Paseo Colon (Santiago de la Ribera). Free entry. -
‘Miles gloriousus’.
Mérida International Classical Theater Festival. August 13. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €18 and €22. -
‘The Town Musicians of Bremen’.
Nacho Vilar Productions. August 14. 22 hours. Cultural Center Santiago de La Ribera. Free entry. -
Ladies Football Club.
Pirate Ship Productions. August 15th. 10:30 p.m. A. Almansa Park. Tickets: €18 and €22. -
‘The milestone’.
Les Spectacles of 23. Plaza of Spain. August 16th. 10:00 p.m. Free entry. -
‘The infamy’.
Spanish Theater and Come y Calla Productions. 17 of August. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €18 and €22. -
‘Fairfly’.
The Calorica. Cultural Center Santiago de la Ribera. August 18th. 10:00 p.m. Tickets: €15. ‘King’s Night’. Spanish theater and Ur theater. August 19. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €18 and €22. -
‘King’s Night’.
Spanish theater and Ur theater. August 19. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: €18 and €22. -
Ariel Rot & Kiko Veneno.
‘A country to listen to it’. Almansa Park Auditorium. 20th of August. 10:30 p.m. -
‘UNPROVIDED’.
UpArt. August 22nd. 22 hours. Puerto Tomás Maestre (La Manga del Mar Menor). Free entry. u’Paradise Lost’. Teatre Romea, Grec Festival of Barcelona and National Drama Center. August 25th. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: 18 and 22 euros. -
‘Lost paradise’.
Teatre Romea, Grec Festival of Barcelona and National Drama Center. August 25th. 10:30 p.m. Almansa Park Auditorium. Tickets: 18 and 22 euros. -
Festival ticket.
On sale from next week from 125 euros. Includes all the shows except the Ariel Rot & Kiko Veneno concert and ‘Fairfly’. Reservation and sale of tickets at the Festival Office (Plaza España s/n, downstairs of the Town Hall), on the phones 968 191 568 and 968 191 588 and on the website festivalessanjavier.com
There will be not one but eleven women who will take the stage with ‘Ladies Football Club’. Theater director Sergio Peris-Mencheta pays tribute to the true story of women who, in the midst of the First World War, formed one of the first women’s football teams in the United Kingdom, and who were banned from playing when the men returned from battle.
More social criticism with ‘Fairfly’, by the Catalan company La Calòrica. The montage will analyze, in the form of a corrosive comedy, the neoliberal discourse, entrepreneurship and the idea of succeeding economically. A work that received the Max Award for Best New Show in 2018 and that can be seen for the first time in the Region of Murcia.
classic humor
Among the classics, ‘Miles Gloriosus’, by Plauto, can be seen on August 13, a few days after its premiere at the Mérida Classical Theater Festival. Pep Antón Gómez directs this show, with Carlos Sobera leading the cast. The San Javier Theater Group will also cover one of the great classics, ‘Antígona’, under the direction of Manuel Brun and José Antonio Navas.
Shakespeare will return on August 19 with ‘Twelfth Night’, directed by Helena Pimenta, who also signs the version of the work with Álvaro Tato. Ron Lalá will also provide his own dose of comedy on August 7 with ‘Villa y Marte’, a collective creation with which the Madrid-based company reinvents the boy genre.
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The San Javier Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance celebrates its 52nd edition in August with proposals for three weeks in San Javier, Santiago de la Ribera and La Manga del Mar Menor. -
fifteen
Number of festival shows. With nine plays, a dance choreography, a concert, a children’s production and three open-air shows.
“Democratic prices”
Ariel Rot and Kiko Veneno will be responsible for the only musical evening of the San Javier Festival. Their union arose after the television program ‘A country to listen to’, in which Ariel Rot brought viewers closer to the music of the different provinces and regions. Together with Kiko Veneno, he will take the spirit of the television format to live, on August 20.
The Festival will say goodbye on August 25 with ‘Paraíso Lost’, a play based on John Milton’s epic poem. Pere Arguillué and Cristina Plazas lead the cast of the production, under the direction of Andrés Lima, co-produced by the Grec 2022 Festival of Barcelona, Teatre Romea and the National Drama Center.
Tickets and subscriptions will go on sale starting next week. “Democratic prices so that no one is left without living this experience,” said David Martínez to end his speech at the Párraga Center, giving way to the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, who advanced the inauguration of a winter theater next to the Parque Almansa and pointed out that “summer festivals are an example of San Javier’s commitment to culture.” An idea that Juan Antonio Lorca, general secretary of the Ministry of Culture, held: “Talking about San Javier is synonymous with culture.” As the director of the festival said, “the ship is about to set sail”. Do they sign up?
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