Mònica López is awarded as best actress for ‘De què parlem mentre no parlem de tota aquesta merda’ and the dancer Jesús Carmona in the dance category
Juan Diego Botto’s Lorca song ‘Una noche sin luna’ shone this Monday evening during the 25th edition of the Max Awards, which were presented at the Teatro Principal in Mahón. This one-person play won the prize for best male artist and best theatrical performance. “Long live Lorca, long live Botto and long live the mother she gave birth!” shouted Sergio Peris-Mencheta from the stage, director of the play and responsible for receiving the prize in the absence of Botto in the Menorcan city because you are immersed in a movie.
His award for best actor was, in the words read by his sister Nur Levi, dedicated to all people who, like the poet from Granada, remain “buried in the gutters waiting for justice”. He also remembered his mother, Cristina Roca, who “instilled in him love for the trade and respect for the trade.” Botto continues with a brilliant 2021. The success of his work and the awards won this Wednesday in Menorca was joined weeks ago by the National Theater Award.
The other winning artistic proposal of the evening was ‘Canto jo i la muntanya balla’ (I sing and the mountain dances), which won three of the five awards it was nominated for: Best Direction, Best Landscape Space and Best Musical Composition. Mònica López won the Max for Best Actress for her work in ‘De què parlem mentre no parlem de tota aquesta merda’ (What are we talking about when we’re not talking about all this shit) and the award for best authorship went to María Velasco for ‘I will cut men off the face of the earth’
As for the dance, dancer and choreographer Jesús Carmona copied Botto and won the prize for best male artist and best show for ‘Baile de bestias’, while Lucía Lacarra won the female prize for ‘In the silence of the night’. On the other hand, El Espejo Negro triumphed with ‘Cris, petite brave’ and was the best show for children and young people; ‘Woman on a Treadmill on a Black Background’, by Alessandra García, became the best revelation show and ‘Company’ won the prize for best musical show.
The audience also honored José Luis Alonso de Santos, author of, among others, ‘La Estanquera de Vallecas’ or ‘Bajarse al Moro’ and an essential figure in the last decades of Spanish theater who received the Max of Honor. But all of these awards also pointed to a post-pandemic problem that stopped everything. “There is a certain adaptation of the public to that way of enjoying themselves by putting on a video at home,” said Juan José Solana, president of the SGAE Foundation, organizer of these awards. “We’d like that to change and for us to get up from those sofas, from those comfy seats to get back to the theaters,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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