La Fura dels Baus, Miguel Poveda, Vorónica Forqué, Candela Peña with the theatrical release of the film director Cesc Gay, and soloists of the National Dance Company, among other shows populate the program 47 Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance in San Javier which pays homage to Shakespeare and Cervantes, present in the poster artist Nicolas de Maya, with "Macbeth" Alquibla and "Cervantina" Ron Lalá
With the Mar Menor as a stage and weirs as decoration it was presented this morning the program of the 47th International Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance in San Javier to be held from 3 to 23 of August and the beginning a new phase that will lead his 50th birthday.
This was announced by the Councillor for Culture and Festival director David Martinez, who unveiled the program accompanied by the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, who claimed responsibility for the enclave chosen the weirs as "the most beautiful corner of the Region of Murcia" in a ceremony that was attended by the director general of the Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts, Marta López Briones and artist Nicolas de Maya.
The Festival presents this year a total of 14 shows, 8 plays, one for family audiences, 3 music, including the return of La Fura dels Baus it encompasses, in addition to an exclusive concert of Miguel Poveda, and one dance, with 12 soloists of the National dance Company to two other shows outside the auditorium, one circus in the square of Spain, San Javier, and a street in the Colón de Santiago walk Ribera add .
The 47th edition of the Festival will begin on August 3 with "Stupidity," a work by Argentine author, poorly represented in Spain, Rafael Spregelburd set in Las Vegas, "which highlights the fragility of intelligence in these times" .
The work counts in the cast with actors Toni Costa and Fran Perea led by Fernando Soto, it is a kind of road movie adapted to the theater that tells five parallel stories that intersect becoming one.
The dance will not wait and will arrive on August 5th with a show consists of 12 soloists from the National Dance Company directed by cartagenero José Carlos Martínez "with which we wanted to go for the dance of our country," said David Martíenz .
The program includes classical choreography and classic-contemporary.
The music, which gains momentum this year, including Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura, who shall live his sixth album "Moura" on August 6.
Ana Moura, who has collaborated with diverse artists as Prince, and Herbie Hancock, from the tradition flirts with any other genre, making only his voice, lead the field of fado any melody.
The presence of the local theater in homage to the origin of the festival started 47 years ago by an amateur group of San Javier, will arrive on August 8 with the famous work of Molière "The Imaginary Invalid" will direct Leonor Benitez.
Teodoro Martinez will be the argan classic of world literature of the seventeenth century.
From the Classical Theatre Festival of Mérida, where he will premiere a few days before, will come "Alexander the Great" by Jean Racine, directed by Luis Luque and a cast rife with young experienced players such as Aitor Luna, Unax Ugalde, Diana Palazón, Marian San Jose, Félix Gómez, Amparo Pamplona and Armando del Rio.
Racine man becomes myth, the Macedonian king who had conquered 33 years all possible realms, and presents contradictory and eternal conflict over whether to live in peace or in war go on forever.
On August 12 will arrive comedy with the filmmaker, who recently won a Goya for "Truman" Cesc Gay premieres in the theater.
It is "upstairs neighbors" starring the actress, Candela Peña, winner also of several Goya, and as the director opens in the tables with a work that fills every night the Teatro La Latina in Madrid.
Humorously, the plot tells the story of a couple who invite to dinner after their neighbors, they discover that there is more to the monotony which had been installed.
The expected return of La Fura dels Baus reach the auditorium of Almansa Park on August 14 with a musical show "Free Bach 212" a free interpretation of the original score of "Cantata of the peasants" of Johann Sebastian Bach, directed and Miki Espuma script and David Cid, and the musical direction of Pavel Amilcar, Thor Jorgen and the same foam.
The show, signed by La Fura and Divina Mysteria, mixing baroque music with flamenco and electronic music, with the collaboration of the singer Ginesa Ortega and dancer Miguel Angel Serrano Murcia.
The last assembly "Furan" includes multimedia image and end in a tavern in which he will invite all present to toast with beer Estrella Levante facilitate, sponsor of the show audience.
David Martinez reiterated the support of the Festival to the Murcian theater line that co-production is presented along with the Romea Theater of Murcia of "Macbeth" with Alquilba Theatre, directed by Antonio Saura.
The haunting drama of Shakespeare whose assembly is supported by a "disturbing" acting work, which can be seen on May 17, recalls the great English author in a program that could not miss Cervantes with an original show "Cervantina" with the Ron Lalá close the festival on August 23 reviewing, with humor, brief iconic scenes from Cervantes' work.
Veronica Forqué, who will receive the Award Festival arrive in San Javier on August 19 with "Breathing" written and directed by Alfredo Sanzol, winner of several Max awards, co-produced by Abbey Theatre, work in which from the personal experience of the author, the tragedy of heartbreak addressed.
Miguel Poveda complete the musical section with a concert designed especially for the Festival of San Javier, on August 20, which will have a first part dedicated to his latest work "Sonnets and Poems for freedom", a second dedicated to flamenco and I remember third of Andalusian music and the song that marked him as a child.
The family theater has its appointment on August 21 with one of the most successful musicals in Madrid, "Hansel and Gretel" based on the classic Brothers Grimm.
Outside the auditorium two shows will be presented.
"Everything fits" with Vitaly Motuzka as coach and technical director of a show that combines acrobatics high level with touches of humor and a fresh and very visual result for the whole family that can be seen on August 11 in the square of Spain , San Javier.
Colón in Santiago de la Ribera promenade, on August 18, disembarks Anton Valen directorial Typical, a traveling show, with music, choreography and set in the 70s fireworks.
The poster of the 47 Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance in San Javier signing Nicolas de Maya is part of this new phase that drives now the Festival "where we want to melt the scenic and pictorial arts" involving large murcianos artists with the Festival.
Nicholas of Maya said "the honor" of this collaboration in which having clear allusion to Cervantes and Shakespeare, turns them into symbols covered by a fabric that symbolizes the theater curtain that hides the mystery and power of the word.
Two actors gave life throughout the act to the two universal authors whose busts, presided work Zigurat whole act covered by the same fabric poster that were stripped once programming wakeful
David Martinez forward a program of parallel activities that will be implemented in the near future and that includes an exhibition of Nicholas of Maya, during the Festival as well as a clown course taught by Anton Valen, and meetings of the actors involved in the Festival with the public.
He also announced an Amateur Theatre Festival, to remember the origin of the Festival, to be held in November with the title Francisco Rubio, who was its first director.
Tickets for the festival will go on sale from June 1, when the new Festival website will also be presented.
The purchase can be made through the web page, in the Office of Festivals, located in the basement of the City of San Javier and at the box office.
Festival director announced the benefits of fertilizer this year will sell for 100 euros 10 shows, except the concert of Miguel Poveda and child labor.
Subscribers also receive the shirt of the 47th edition of the Festival.
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo said the effort to bring the atmosphere of the Festival outside the auditorium and the "moment of momentum by passing the competition," in the words of the director general of Cultural Industries and Arts, Marta López Briones "will be one of the best summer in Spain".
Marta Lopez Briones reiterated the support of the Autonomous Community to the Festival of San Javier "that identifies our region" and praised chosen for presentation, seaside location, with its director, David Martinez took the opportunity to recall the arrival theater to the Iberian peninsula across the sea brought by the Romans, inheritance of Hellenic culture.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier