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The show "Don Juan Tenorio, Dream and reality in the San Javier cemetery" mobilizes about 300 people and transcends the local scope integrating formations such as Orfeón Fernández Caballero, and corals and groups of municipalities of San Pedro del Pinatar, Torre Pacheco, and Pilar de la Horadada
The Mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo and Councilor for Culture David Martínez presented today at the Teatro Romea, Murcia, the fourth edition of "Don Juan Tenorio, Dream and reality in the San Javier cemetery," which will be represented the next October 28 consolidated as a unique event in Spain.
The mayor of Culture said that this is the only case in which the work of Zorrilla is fully represented in a cemetery with the only precedent that can be seen each year in the cemetery of Lima, Peru.
The capacity of 1,000 spectators last year remained small so in this edition has expanded to 1,200 locations to witness a show that has become a participatory project involving about 300 people, and that transcends the local level with the participation of the San Javier Theater Group, responsible for the theatrical installation, as well as the Orfeón Fernández Caballero, the San Javier choirs, San Pedro del Pinatar, and Torre Pacheco, the San Javier Conservatory of Music, Friends of the Belén, and even a theater group Pilar de la Horadada, Alicante.
David Martínez highlighted the originality of the project "that transcends the limits of the theatrical scenario and becomes a religious rite, a communion in which we all participate."
Martinez explained that the show consists of three stages, beginning at 9 pm with the reception of the public in the pinewood of the cemetery by a group of extras that invite to celebrate life as opposed to the second part, a preamble of the work, in which the Death and its army of guardians of the light accompany the spectators in a visit by the cemetery.
Thousands of candles and torches will illuminate the audience's journey through the interior of the cemetery with improvised altars, apparitions of characters, music and chants of the different choirs that will compose "a journey in time so that the spectator is impregnated with the spirit of the work , the Seville of Carlos V and the contemporary Imperial Spain of Don Juan, "explained Councilor for Culture, David Martinez.
The director of the work Juan Antonio Navas explained during the presentation that the theatrical assembly, which takes place in an external enclosure next to the wall of the cemetery, aims to excite and make the public feel for what has been counted on live music, dance , and a lyrical voice.
Navas, who also gives life to Don Juan, explained that the work revolves around the transformation of Don Juan more quarrelsome and scoundrel to Don Juan seeking redemption in love.
The mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo highlighted the fact that it is the San Javier Theater Group, which created 48 years ago what is now the International Festival of Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier, which now, hand in hand of the Department of Culture and with the collaboration of the parish of San Javier, holder of the cemetery, is willing to create a unique event that defined as "a different experience" for the audience, "in which many people are involved and involved of the municipality and of outside ".
Tickets can be bought for 10 euros on the page of the San Javier Festivals: www.festivalessanjavier.com, Confecciones La Cierva, and FNAC Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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