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The works "Dream" and "Ternura", that will be able to see the days 4 and 5 of August, are a production of the Theater of the City based on a previous research work on the comedy centered in the work of Shakespeare
The machine of the 48th edition of the International Festival of Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier, whose start will announce the show parade, "Metamorphosis", on August 2 on the seafront of Santiago de la Ribera, has been launched this Tomorrow with the presentation, in the hall of the Town Hall, of the proposal of the City Theater, Max Prize 2016 to the Best Private Production of the Escencias Arts, with which the program starts on August 4.
Festival director David Martinez, theater director Andres Lima and producer Joseba Gil presented "Sueño" a "very tragic comedy" in the words of its director who defined the work, which arrives in San Javier on Friday, August 4, as " The journey of a person who, while approaching death, experiences a greater desire to live. "
Both "Dream" and "Tenderness", the work that will be seen a day later, are the culmination of a long process of previous research developed by City Theater a successful project, promoted by directors Andrés Lima, Alfredo Sanzol, and Miguel del Arco and the producers Joseba Gil, Aitor Tejada and Gonzalo Salazar-Simposon whose objective is that of theatrical research.
After having worked on the tragedy, Teatro de la Ciudad, which has its current headquarters in the Theater of the Abbey, in Madrid, proposed to approach the comedy and focused on the universe of Shakespeare "that being as an atheist is like a God, because everything is in him, "said Andrés Lima.
In "Dream", the director connects the personal fact of the death of his father with the plot of the lovers of "The dream of a night of summer", in which the Puck pixel confuses the amorous feelings of the personages, with a The final result in which "as happens in life is passed from laughter to crying without a solution of continuity."
The formula of Groucho Marx, Tragedy + Time = Comedy is at the base of the proposal of Andrés Lima aware that the time brings new perspectives on a tragic fact and that the comedy can contribute a certain distance of the pain "although without evading" .
"Sueño" is a reflection on how life is worth living, explained its director about a work that has captivated the public that has already seen it, and that "has a lot of crazy", a theatrical experiment in which the Comedy with tragedy and in which Beethoven and trance music, prose and verse live together, explained Lima.
The actress Nathalie Poza, who like Andrés Lima and the producer Joseba Gil comes from the company Animalario, winner of several Max Awards, is part of a "transgender" cast that is completed with Chema Adeva, Laura Galán, Ainhoa ​​Santamaría and María Vázquez.
The director Alberto Sanzol, who last year was also at the Festival of San Javier with "La respiración", directs the second proposal of Theater of the City, "Ternura", which will be seen on August 5, "a comic game In which are intertwined different plots of the different works of Shakespeare "explained Andrés Lima.
"They are two shows that drink from the desire to live without shying away from the tragedy," Lima pointed out, for which the theater has to "move, stir and move".
The City Theater already has new projects not revealed to follow its research objective as work prior to new theatrical works.
A research work in which, in addition to directors and actors, external specialists are invited to invite participants to go deeper into the chosen theme and, in a special way, the public that attends the workshops in which the final assembly gear is shaped.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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