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Show: "The Trickster of Seville and the stone guest"
Abbey Theatre
Location: Park auditorium Almansa
Date: Wednesday, August 6
Time: 22.30 h.
Admission: 12 euros 10 euros area / B area C / D
The Abbey Theatre in San Javier has an unconventional version of the myth of Don Juan with the staging of "The Trickster of Seville and the stone guest," directed by Briton Dan Jammett
The Abbey Theater presented tomorrow at the Festival of San Javier a free version of the myth of Don Juan to the staging of "The Trickster of Seville and the stone guest", text attributed to Tirso de Molina, written in 1615, in which plasma is definitely the figure of a character, who along with Don Quixote, is one of the great Spanish contributions to world literature.
The prestigious British Madrid company turned to Dan Jemmett to direct this production in seeking a fresh, different and free of classical Spanish, as explained by the head of The Abbey, José Luis Gómez, for which the result was "a unobstructed view of the burdens of tradition and totally different. "
Dan Jemmett, who last year with "Les précieuses ridiculous" became the first Briton to direct a Molière for the Comédie Française, took up the work, he never met, with a demystifying perspective, presenting an atypical Don Juan, who plays the Spanish actor, seasoned in European settings, Antonio Gil.
Antonio Gil explained that with this book have tried to "trick the trickster, disrespecting the myth," but not enough to "let live what is to be universal in this classic."
Working with Antonio Gil Lino Ferreira, Esther Bellver, Marta Poveda, Luis Moreno and David Luque who play a total of 17 characters.
The scenery and costumes by Dick Bird unconventional support the vision of the play, which tells a story of lies and deceptions, disguises and seduction, set in a cabaret bar sort of mid-century where the action.
Dan Jammett addressed the text from the freedom that give the classics, written without quotations, "so the drama should make it their own.
If you do not feel free with this type of text you will get it anymore, "says the director.
Jammet was from the beginning very interested in the contrast in the play, "the union of a very violent with something really beautiful," something that has worked with the actors through rapid changes of register, to lead the audience from laughter to tears and back again.
Dan Jemmett began founded the experimental theater group Primitive Science, and debuted as director with "Ubu" by Alfred Jarry at the Young Vic Theatre London, a show that also appeared in French in Paris.
In France, where he won the Critics Award at the "show revelation" to "Shake", has spent most of his career.
In addition he has directed opera theater, and other shows like "In the pantry Veronese, an installation-performance on the works of Italian painter.
In The Abbey had "Dog Face" and "Twelfth Night."
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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