FROM WEDNESDAY 20/9 ON SUNDAY 1/10
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At the close of the summer print magazine edition (end of june) The long-term works that will make up the 13 edition of Russafa Scenic, whose motto is precisely “pass”, but they have just been made public, so we can finally present them to you. Valencian productions are The eternal feeling of starting from scratch from the Wind in Favor company, nobody's girl of La Zafirina, Archangels by Rafa Alarcón Productions, Noes created by Russafa Escènica and directed by Gema Gisbert and The odyssey of their lives also produced by the festival together with the CCCC and Teatro de lo Inestable, and directed by Jacobo Pallarés. The pieces from national companies that will be shown at the festival are Magic laughter and me by Mag Marin, Official presentation of the gadgets for our salvation by Júlia Barbany, Water falls of The Mechanics, I am a dance by Rosa Romero and sacred beast by Isabel do Diego (Juan Diego Calzada).
What we were able to tell you in the summer printed AU was information about the nurseries (this year ten, two more than in 2022), the thirty-minute performance pieces that are the soul of the festival. like every year, The record of projects presented has been broken again and according to the director of the festival, Jerónimo Cornelles, Their commitment to emerging values has led them to leave out prominent names on the Valencian scene. Yes, Miguel Ángel Sweeney will be there with This broken body, a proposal about the Syrians who risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean to flee the war in their country. Or Laura Bellés and Alida Molina, that present Material, a composite piece, like a croquette with the leftovers of the stew, for all the stage ideas that fell by the wayside. Pasta dish is about a friendship that, like pasta, it happens if you cook it too much, Solanas focuses on that feminist writer who shot Andy Warhol and got her fifteen minutes of fame and Failure is not an option comes with an irresistible synopsis: “The Apollo 13 rises towards the moon. Before arriving, They decide to return to earth. Here began a simulation involving the Beatles, Ellon Musk, “AI and the incorruptible arm of Saint Vincent”. New dramaturgies, proposals in motion, metatheatre, autofiction and political reflection in an edition of Russafa Escènica that invites us to reflect on luck. S.M.
