The new artistic directors of the Tercera Setmana theater festival, Paco Macià from the Elche Railway Company and Tomás Ibáñez from Vilarealeca Visitors presented the program of this third edition with a continuing spirit that respects the philosophy established by the previous boss, Save the Vault. That is to say, seek the projection of our culture abroad and achieve truly international category programming. In that line, the number of foreign shows has doubled (of 4 a 8), come from Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Greece, Iran, or of neighboring France, which with four proposals is the most represented country. In fact, the French company Baroloso will be in charge of opening the festival in Valencia with the assembly MétamOrph’O [8] in the Navy: water circus, impossible balances, poetry, music and the magic of stories. The Chilean artistic collective Social Club Theater presents 40.000 km –the measure of the Earth– [9-10] where we will discover what it means to be an immigrant in Chile through the experiences of a Bolivian woman, a Haitian, a Spanish woman and a Jewish Argentinian woman. A European premiere! Also Chilean, but based in Barcelona, and Meridiano 70ymedio Theater by Marcela Terra, which develops a Icarus [9] a "journalistic" theater around the Germanwings plane crash in the Alps where they died 150 people, between them co-pilot Andreas Lubitz. We close the international section with Mendoza [15] of Los Colochos Theater, an adaptation of Macbeth by William Shakespeare located in the revolutionary Mexico of 1910.
One of the proper names for this edition is that of Marta Pazos, which repeats for the third consecutive time in the festival at the front of the Galician company Flying. This time he directs an irreverent version of Shakespeare's classic Summer night Dream [10]. Another is the actor Nacho Guerreros, that reflects on broken toys [14] on sexual and gender identity by putting oneself in the skin of a transsexual in Francoist Spain. These two works, like the 90% of those that make up the poster, they are premieres in the Valencian Country and complement the absolute premieres that will be offered to us by five Valencian companies: Chronicle of excesses [12] of P.T.V. Clowns, Bluff [13] of Gran Fele Circus, The light of the world [13] of CRIT Theater Company, Family(es) [15] of Theater of the Unstable, i, featured, Nowhere in particular [14-15], a co-production between Tercera Setmana and Grec Festival de Barcelona that shows how day-to-day conventions end up building us as people. The festival will close the tandem formed by Child from Elche i Israel Galván with a work, mechanical couplets [17], premiered a few days earlier at Sónar in Barcelona. Mechanical couplets will transport flamenco to another dimension thanks to the twinning between the dance and Galván's raps, and the complaints and impossible onomatopoeias from Niño de Elche. In an accidental way, the theme of memory has ended up covering the programming of this festival of performing arts that, halfway between the public and the private, it moves away from the local theater a little and looks towards a more international horizon. Always looking for quality and artistic excellence. S.M.
