FROM THURSDAY 4 ON SUNDAY 28/8
ROMAN THEATER OF SAGUNT. Pl. Facundo Roca, s/n (Sagunto)
The cultural August in the city of Valencia is a barren land that encourages you to pursue the theater, the music and dance that is combined in the Roman Theater of Sagunto. About to blow out the forty candles, he Sagunto in Scene This year he proposes a poster where two pieces of classic theater stand out and a third that breaks the dynamic by talking about football and women, very protagonists throughout the entire program. Let's start with Sappho [20], a great co-production led by three very powerful women: Christina Rosenvinge, Marta Pazos i Maria Folguera, dusting off the work of another influential woman who stood out in the field of lyrical poetry in archaic Greece and from whom the adjectives "saphic" or "lesbian" have been derived, let's talk about the poet Safo of Lesbos. Folguera wrote the text, Rosenvinge set the poems to music - which at the time were also accompanied by lyre music - and Pazos, Founder of the effervescent Galician company Voadora, has directed this stage poem, musical and visual that explores the figure of the great artist from Lesbos. The other classic proposal of the festival is The Misanthrope [18] directed by Carol López — who would become known with V.O.S. al Free Theater, work that Cesc Gay would bring to the cinema later—and with a cast led by Beatriz Carvajal. The misanthrope lives isolated in the countryside with a daughter who wants to discover the world. through her, with whom Sóstrat has fallen in love, son of the owner of the rural hotel, we will know the situation of women in classical Greece. On the other hand it is Ladies Football Club [27] about the munitionettes, a group of English women workers in munitions factories who encouraged the practice of football while the men fought in the First World War. A musical of Sergio Peris-Mencheta — comes from succeeding with A moonless night in the last edition of the MAX awards held in Mahon—based on the work of the same name by Stefano Massini that travels to the origins of women's football practiced by women who went from home to the factory and from the factory to the football fields. A work by the house will open the festival, Julia [6], the adaptation that At Dependent has made Isabel Clara Simó's novel about the industrial world in Alcoi de 1873.
Another great name of the Sagunto a Escena is that of Jose Merce [13-14], What are you going to present to us? Oripando, wedged, "a journey from darkness to the beginning of the day", and in Valencian, an album called to surprise. Made of extensive progressive tone compositions, ballads and old songs of forging that join hands with rap, electronic patterns rockers and existential moans wrapped in symphonic orchestra. La dansa ve de la mà d'Acosta Dance, that in Tocororo Suite [11] stages the story of a humble young man who arrives in the city in search of new horizons and ends up questioning his aspirations. A picturesque show inspired by customs, balls i ritmes cubans. Finally, in Bedroom secrets [24], the viewer will be able to meet the performer Miss Beige and get into bed with her to share vulnerabilities, all together, artist and gossip. The band, with always, the festival has organized Off Romà, a free parallel program in several places in the town that will feature the circus of 23 Arts Productions i Spinish Circus, the music of Uncle Pontet, the dance ofAnother dance i Morocco, the street theater of mechanics & Mime Prague i The Family (Achilles), the stage poetry of Versonauts, flamenco, the gestural theater of Mireia Miracle Company, the vertical dance and shadows of Ferrer & Weidman and theater in Valencian, the one of The Political Family. S.M.
