The festival, organized by the University of Alicante and the La Alcudia University Foundation for Archaeological Research, includes 6 outdoor theatrical performances, three in the Teaching Theater block and three in the Professional Theater block, all of them around myths and legends of the Greco-Latin tradition, from both classic and contemporary visions.
The first block will host the recent premieres of the UA Theater Classroom, Lysistrata. Occupy the Acropolis, and the UMH Theater Company, A San Juan Night's Dream, as well as the winning work of the VII Greco-Latin Theater School Contest of the UA, Greek loves: Sappho, Alcibiades, Hipparchy, by the IES Pascual Carrión de Sax Theater Group.
In the professional theater section, Bambalina Teatre will present to us its immersion with puppets in the King Oedipus by Sophocles (in Valencian). The next day, and after its absolute premiere at the Mérida International Classical Theater Festival, Verbo Producciones will arrive with the comedy Appearance, of Menander. Finally, The festival will close with the great success of The Girls of Cádiz, The wind is wild, a free recreation, tragicomic and Cadiz drama about the myths of Phaedra and Medea with which they won the Max award for Best New Show 2020.
During this edition, parallel to the Festival, attendees will also be able to participate in a program of thematic guided visits to the Archaeological Site, organized from the University Institute of Research in Archeology and Historical Heritage of the UA, during the hours of 20 h and duration of 30 min.
The wind is wild – The girls of Cádiz
Says goodbye to the XII Festival of L’Alcúdia UA The wind is wild, from The Girls of Cádiz, Max Award for Best New Show 2020.
The Wind is Wild is a very free recreation of two of the most exciting female characters in the history of universal culture.: Phaedra and Medea.
Two friends. So friends that they are sisters. Just a shadow over their friendship:
“While one grew confident
Pampered by life and smiling
The other one felt miserable…”
The girls of Cádiz strip Fedra and Medea of their hair and bring them to the present day, turning them into apparently gray beings. Only when conflict arises will they suddenly assume an ancient fatality, under whose influence they will destroy everything that stands in their way. Background, Cadiz, a city with a Macondian profile, where all everyday elements acquire a magical dimension that foreshadows tragedy: the disturbing east wind, announced by the sharpener's flute and by the presence of the circus on the outskirts of the city, the chirping of birds, the chorus of the neighbors... The wind is wild is a tragedy crossed from end to end by laughter. «It is the inheritance of the land from which we come, and to which we always return, Cadiz, where we learned that in every terrible story there is a paradox that can lead to comedy; y, on the contrary, "In every outburst of humor there is always a tragic undertone.".
