Scene. The II Week of the Lorquí Art Comedy allows you to get closer to this theater of Italian origin, so influential
Lorquí aims to become an unmissable event for fans of the comedy of art –or ‘commedia dell’arte’ in Italian–. From February 18 to 26, the municipality will host the II Comedia del Arte Week, an event that is growing after an experimental edition in 2022 with the aim of consolidating itself as a key date to enjoy this type of popular theater that was created in Italy in the 16th century and that has provided dramaturgical keys that remain as references to this day and were used by teachers such as Shakespeare or Molière. Inheritance from this type of theater are archetypal characters such as harlequin.
Since last Saturday, this municipality of 7,000 inhabitants has been a meeting place between professionals in the performing arts, the public and actors in training, hosted by the neighbors themselves. The festival has launched the initiative ‘Welcome an art comedian at home’, with which it aims to create more connections between people and visitors. «We want Lorquí to be a place that stays in the hearts of the festival participants and that the artists want to visit their friends in Lorquí again. This is how art really becomes something complete,” explains Vene Vieitez, director of the Comedia del Arte Week and part of Teatro Strappato, who assures that the proposal has been very well received: “Initially, it was just launched. yes and now we have extra beds.
On the program is a professional workshop by Claudia Contin that started on Saturday. From Monday to Wednesday, three free conferences will be held in the theater of the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Murcia (ESAD), given by the actors Claudia Contin and Daniel Ginebroza and the composer Juan Miguel Murani. There will also be three parades – two in Murcia and one in Lorquí – and an exhibition of masks from 22 to 26 February at the ‘Maestro Rodrigo’ Center for Cultural Promotion.
But the highlight of the event is the shows, held over the weekend in the Tierno Galván auditorium. Tickets cost between 5 and 8 euros and for 13 euros you can buy a pass for all performances. The sale takes place on the website compralaentrada.com.
The first of these productions is ‘Triboulet’, on Friday the 25th at 8.30pm. A play by Teatro Strappato premiered in Berlin in 2021 and that has hardly been seen in the Murcia region «about the manipulation and instrumentalization of everything: people, words, ideas, desires and fears», the company says of a work with music by Juan Miguel Murani.
‘Santa Teresa con ciencia de amar’ is the first of the two productions that can be seen on Saturday. At 6:30 pm, the Sevillian actor Juan Luis Corientes takes the stage with a multidisciplinary proposal based on the literary and mystical work of Teresa de Jesús. “A very contemporary language that breaks with what people expect when they think of comedy or art,” says the festival director.
At 9 p.m. it’s Claudia Contin’s turn. The artist stages ‘Ni criada ni ama’, dedicated to female figures in the comedy of art. The Italian creator is a benchmark in the field because he is “the first woman to permanently interpret the character of ‘arlecchino’ -harlequin-, a male character,” says Vieitez. The artist will perform again on Sunday at 7 p.m. with the family show ‘Los habitantes de Arlequinia’, a series of didactic fables to get to know the different characters of the commedia dell’arte. Among them the ‘zanni’, concrete and ingenious servants; the old ‘pants’, so stingy and tragicomic it’s touching; the arrogant and fragile ‘capitani’; and of course the harlequin, an indomitable buffoon.
After this meeting, the II Week of the Lorquí Art Comedy will be concluded with a show created especially for the closing ceremony in collaboration with the Murcia Superior Conservatory of Music and several theater companies. His name: ‘Brass souls’.
Source: La Verdad
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