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Greek mythology, the eternal Shakespeare and a painting of Hieronymus. These are the broad features that design the thirty-fifth edition of the Sagunt a Escena festival in the imposing, that's not pretty (yes, If they had done a more respectful restoration!), roman theater of sagunt. In the first class programming only one company from the Valencian Community survives, The Elx Railway, the others have been relegated to the interesting Off circuit that will take place at the Mariano Monreal culture center, we talk about local heavyweights like Bambalina Teatre with The Celestina [8/8], the Collective Fracasadas with The guests [15/8), directed by Ximo Flores; Teatrencompanyia with Class [22/8] by Xavi Puchades; and La Teta Calva questioning the price of fame in What happened to Michael Jackson? [29/8], by Xavo Giménez.
As we said, The Railway, always risky and in search of aesthetic experience, sneaks into its own right among the greats and opens the festival with Antigone [1/8], work that represents his first foray into one of the great Greek tragedies. This year there are three of the works that come directly from the Mérida International Classical Theater Festival. The first is Philoctetes [3-4/8], Sophocles' last tragedy, with Pedro Casablanc and Pepe Viyuela, about the impunity with which certain people use justice and power for their own benefit; the second is The Amazons [17-18/8], with Silvia Abascal and Loles León, the Greek myth of warrior women who rebel against the physical abuse of men; and the third, Be able to [24-25/8], starring Lolita Flores, about a character who in his contemporary version speaks openly and without fear of the freedom to love. Sophocles appears again, this time inspiring Oedipus [2/9] by Teatre Romea, in which a magnificent Julio Manrique gives life to that king of Thebes who gouged out his eyes after killing his father and sleeping with his mother. The company Clásicos Contemporáneos offers us the version (another one!) from one of the great dramas of the timeless William Shakespeare, Othello [31/8], making use of new technologies; and the international note is given by the Canadian Marie Chouinard, unavoidable reference of dance worldwide, who draws a dance piece based on the Hieronymus triptych The garden of delights [9/8]. And two notes to finish: flamenco by dancer Ángel Muñoz in his new work Chiaroscuro [11/8], y Maria Arnal y Marcel Bages [28/8] presenting, one more time, the highly acclaimed 45 brains and a heart In concert. S.M.
