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40 Festival de Teatro y Danza de San Javier
Collect 40-year history of Theatre and Dance Festival in San Javier has not been easy, but the anniversary called for an effort that its current director, César Tárraga been done with the "invaluable" help Lila and Angela Serna Escavy for months have been busy collecting and sorting the available documentation to allow an exhibition during the month of August, and distributed at the museum, library and auditorium of San Javier visitors will find the strength of a festival that started 40 years by the foundation, the amateur theater.
The mayor of San Javier, Pepa García and César Tárraga exhibition opened last night in which he also contributed in a special way Javier Lopez, one of the founders of the Festival, has been busy collecting the documentation available from the early years, Since 1969, when a local amateur theater group "Oscar 69", gave rise to what is now one of the oldest festivals in the region without which no longer held a single issue since then, through the dictatorship, democratic transition, changes in government, and several directors.
Visitors who come to the shows in the municipal museum may see signs of hand, press clippings, tickets and programs from the early years of the Festival, and historical documents as the deed of assignment of Festival by the group "Oscar 69" , City Hall when, after the fifth edition of the competition, as originally called, became too great, reminded Tárraga Caesar, one of the founders of the festival that would soon cease to be dedicated to amateur theater under the management of a Municipal Theatre in which local actors have two representatives.
In the public library fans signage design will enjoy more than 150 posters which also summarizes the history of the Festival.
The exhibition includes posters of the various editions, some signed by artists like Parraga, Úrculo or Charris, as well as many of the events that happened over the past years.
At the headquarters of the audience can go to detail with a section devoted to photography.
Snapshots that reflect the way through the Festival of theater groups more representative of the Spanish scene since the 70's, the most important actors in the Spanish theater, and global superstars such as Placido Domingo, Rudolf Nureyev and Maya Plisetskaya, among other many, when the Festival Theatre was open to the Music and Dance.
Tárraga Caesar recognized the problems that have been found to document the issues of the 70 Festival, especially the lack of records and posters from that era.
Despite some clear documentary on the history of the Festival, the exhibition, which includes hundreds of documents, shows that "the theater in San Javier is as alive as when he started the festival," said the Mayor, Pepa Garcia also thanked "the core group of the event and all who have helped and supported over the years the Festival that we still care despite any difficulty. "
The exhibition has stirred up memories of those who lived from its beginnings as Caesar himself last night Tárraga remembered the doubts inside the Oscar group 69 to give time for the organization of the event at City Hall.
The fear of a change of direction and censorship, in those last years of the dictatorship, was dissipated, "although on occasion the Civil Governor forced a group to perform the work at noon censoring phrases unsuccessfully representation because the actors say what they wanted. "
These were years of social openness unstoppable in San Javier which hosted the most controversial shows Joglars a Boadella Albert pursued that "coming but would not let anyone see," recalls Caesar Tárraga or representations as "Terror and misery of the Third Reich" of Bertolt Brecht, in which there was a bomb alert.
The first naked on stage, the more experimental performances and groundbreaking, new theatrical language that brought to San Javier in those years, Spanish companies, Dutch, Argentine, Danish and other countries, San Javier attracted a legion of theatergoers that could hardly enjoy those shows at other venues largest and most important, and probably why more controlled.
Even a camping area had the Festival during those years "in which lived 24-hour drama" recalls Caesar Tárraga that the exhibition dedicated "to all those lovers of the theater."
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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