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Show: "Arizona" by Juan Carlos Rubio
Location: Park auditorium Almansa
Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008
Time: 22.30 h.
Admission: 4 euros / B area 6euros Area C / D
"Arizona", a claim against xenophobia opens tomorrow, 39 International Festival of Theatre and Dance in San Javier
The official section of the Festival opens on Saturday with "Arizona" the latest production of the playwright Cordoba, Juan Carlos Rubio, a work "against borders and intolerance, says the author.
Aurora Sánchez Alberto Delgado and give life to a marriage that reaches the Arizona desert, at the U.S. border with Mexico, with other intentions are not what they seem at the beginning of representation.
The text, an argument against xenophobia, violence and intolerance, there was, as explained by the author, after reading an article in a newspaper about a group of American civilians had been organized to patrol the border with Mexico together, and so contain the flow of illegal immigrants.
That is the real reason for the picnic Margaret and George in the Arizona desert.
The grotesqueness of the situation led to Juan Carlos Rubio to let the natural tone of previous works, to resume the language of the absurd in this work "could have been located anywhere in the world because it deals with intolerance as a universal feeling."
The author invites the Spanish public to ask themselves the astonishment that they can cause the incident of these characters actually belong to an organized group is still active today.
The text, straight and sober, contains the findings of the two characters on the issues of borders and the phenomenon of immigration with different sensibilities, and while the husband hides his true intentions by saying that "we have come to watch our southern neighbors and reflect on the borders ", just saying that illegal immigrants" come to steal, to take our jobs, raping and killing our children. "
Margaret, more naive and less indoctrinated, he wondered why not also monitors the northern border, and even remembers her husband migrant origin of their families.
The scenery, by José Luis Raymond proposes a desert landscape and uses a remote control to highlight the morning, afternoon and night.
Juan Carlos Rubio led the assembly, which opened to enormous success in Córdoba in March.
Juan Carlos Rubio is one of contemporary writers most active and successful in both sets of TV, film and theater, as well as actor and director.
San Javier Festival has hosted a number of his works as "Smoke", "Tonight I'm not for anyone" and "The wounds of the wind."
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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