47º FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE TEATRO DE BADAJOZ
PROGRAMME OF THE 47th BADAJOZ INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2024
Friday 11 October 21:00 h.
Forever
Created by Garbiñe Insausti, José Dault, Iñaki Rikarte and Edu Cárcamo Directed by: Iñaki Rikarte
Performers: José Dault, Garbiñe Insausti and Edu Cárcamo
Company: Kulunka Teatro in co-production with Centro Dramático Nacional (CDN), Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao and Teatro Victoria Eugenia de Donostia (Basque Country).
Running time: 105 minutes Audience: 14 years and older
A play that uses the silent language of masks to tell a story that mixes tenderness and rawness. A family that is moving away from what it dreamed it would be. Reflecting with humour and irony the paradoxes of love, it focuses on issues such as motherhood, education, disability and lack of communication. On a revolving platform, Forever is a merry-go-round, the Ferris wheel of life. But it is also a spiral that, as it turns, deepens the drama of its protagonists. A beautiful and profound tragicomedy born of the distance between our projections of the future and reality itself.
Max Theatre Award for stage direction and playwriting 2024
Saturday 12 October 21:00 h.
Prima facie
By Suzie Miller
Directed by: Juan Carlos Fisher Performer: Victoria Luengo
Company: Producciones Abu (Madrid) Duration: 95 minutes
Monologue about a criminal lawyer who goes from being a sex offender's advocate to becoming a victim. Tessa is at the peak of her career. One of the most successful lawyers in the country, she is used to winning every case she takes on. But a shocking event will change her life forever. And she will face everything she loves to seek justice. This unexpected event forces her to confront the lines between patriarchal power and the law, the burden of proof and morality.
Sunday 13 October 18:00 h. Family show
The squeaky witch
Director: David Galeano
Actors and manipulators: Pilar Borrego, Víctor Cerezo and Alfonso Peña Company: Katua & Galea Teatro (Castilla y León)
Duration: 60 minutes Puppet theatre
Inspired by classic witch tales and folklore, it takes us into a mysterious world full of dangers, in which three brave brothers ignore their mother's warnings and enter a dark forest where they discover a house where a witch lives. There, the three protagonists will have to face their fears in order to escape. This story deals with universal themes such as fear, courage and cunning.
Music and adventure come to life on stage in this exciting and captivating puppet show whose plot unfolds amidst shadows and chiaroscuro, through a thrilling journey into the unknown.
A rat with four eyes and a fish with wings resulting from failed spells, three brothers and their mother, neighbours who are always criticising, three skeletons with their dancing chorus and the witch Rechinadientes. All these characters appear on stage in a show that will captivate and frighten you.
Best puppet show in the Festival FETEN 2024
Monday 14 October 21:00 h.
All my enemies
Authors, directors and performers: Isabel Martín and Simón
Ferrero Company: El Avispero Producciones (Extremadura) Duration: 75 minutes
An original immersive theatre experience that tells a story centred on the serious problem of tourist overcrowding in the world. The theatrical narrative places technological resources as the protagonists of the play, neat in its scenic conception and in its will to surprise the spectators and count on their active complicity. A contemporary narrative that tackles media manipulation and highlights the contradictions of facts that we tend to contemplate from incredulity and also about preconceived ideas. In short, an essay on the social confusion that is unleashed in the face of any event that clouds our "welfare state".
*In this show the spectators will be seated in tiers on the stage with a maximum capacity of 120 people.
Extremaduran project selected to premiere at the Festival.
Tuesday 15 October 21:00 h.
Our dead
Text and direction: Mariano Llorente
Performers: María Álvarez and Carlos Jiménez-Alfaro. The story: Clara Cabrera and Javi Díaz.
Company: Micomicón Teatro (Madrid) Duration: 90 minutes
A work that puts on the table the violence exercised by two forces that deeply marked the history of our country: ETA and Francoism. An octogenarian woman agrees to an interview with the repentant
ETA prisoner who killed her son. During the conversation, which alternates serenity and even good humour with a tension and pain that is sometimes difficult to bear, many of the essential themes of these terrible years in which ETA caused more than 800 deaths, broke up thousands of families and bled an entire country dry. But also, during this dialogue plagued with silences and unanswered questions, the gaze will turn to Franco's repression, which took the life of the old woman's father eighty years earlier and provoked a dictatorship that lasted almost forty years and left more than one hundred thousand disappeared throughout the country. Thus, this is a dialogue in which the ETA car bomb coexists with the guns of a gang of Falangists, to take us into the terrible loneliness of someone who was a victim of both.
Wednesday 16 October 21:00 h.
Dragon
Author, choreographer and artistic director: Daniel Cardoso Performers: 4 dancers
Company: Quórum Dance Company (Portugal) Duration: 50 minutes
The stage is like a blank canvas of the imagination on which they try to transcribe the inner poetry, a space where the unconscious suggests all its creations. The dance of surrealist connotation allows us to minimise the control of reason, as happens in dreams, and the images follow one after the other, freely, without obvious interpretations and without aesthetic or moral pretensions. A piece inspired by dreams, by the improbable, by a utopian future. Something impossible to achieve, but which we never give up. We stubbornly live in the dream, and the force of resistance tells us that we are almost reaching that magical promised land. That inhabited place
for Her. Always believing in the beauty of dreams, we keep in mind our main objective: the conquest of the Dream, and at the end of the road, to be awaited by Her.
A piece for all those who do not give up their dreams and who dare to dance with dragons.
Thursday 17 October 21:00 h.
Dear Dario
Original idea: Javier Cerrato Based on real events
Text and dramaturgy: Miguel Murillo Fernández Direction: Javier Cerrato
Acting coach: Sara Jiménez Performers:
Fermín Núñez and Miguel Pérez Company:
Escénico 700 pesetas (Extremadura) Duration: 90 minutes
Querido Darío was born from the need to make visible the story, based on real events, of a 28-year-old boy from Extremadura, who is harassed and condemned for an event that does not correspond to him. After a long time trying to prove his innocence, the end couldn't be worse: he ends up in prison. In his tireless struggle to make people see a reality that did not correspond to him, he enters a place surrounded by sexist and homophobic inmates where he decides to write a diary. In it, his conversations with himself were the most interesting and, moreover, he took it as a way of escape, an essential outlet for him, since all the professionals at the prison recommended him not to show himself as he was, that is, to hide his sexual condition because he could be in danger during his stay. He had to go back to locking himself in that wardrobe, in that cell where he had to stay for so many years of his life. The protagonist of this Querido Darío suffers a double sentence: the one that justice imposed on him by mistake and the one that the professionals of the Penitentiary Centre made him see.
Dear Darío is a voice for the vindication of all those people who have to hide themselves in order to survive, to stop being themselves, to please a society that does not tolerate, that does not respect the way of life, feelings and love.
Friday 18 October 21:00 h.
Cockroach with landscape in the background
Author and director: Javier Ballesteros
Performers: María Jámez, June Velayos, Virginia de la Cruz, Pablo Chaves, Matilde Gimeno, Laura Barceló y Eva Chocrón
Sound space: flute; Isabel Arraz Company:
Mujer en obras (Madrid) Duration: 85 min.
An original play that combines verse and prose. Guided by a chorus similar to that of the Greek classics, the characters will use this dialectical convention to carry out their entanglements and play between poetry and the comedy of the absurd.
Over the course of five acts, the text reflects on the logics that sustain the continuation of human beings on the planet. It questions our unconquerable condition as a superior species. There is no message or moral. It is the suspended questions that transform characters who are more pathetic than heroic.
A lost spa where women who are unable to have children go to take the waters. A place of ill-fated death where nurses and patients reside, women suspended in an infinite waiting time whose integrity will be endangered by the arrival of an undesirable visitor.
The desire to be a mother, the continuation of the species and the extinction of the human being as the ultimate conclusion of environmentalism on Earth. These are some of the themes on which the company MUJER EN OBRAS focuses its research in this original work that combines verse and prose. Guided by a chorus similar to that of the Greek classics, the
characters will use this dialectic convention to carry out their entanglements and play between tragedy, poetry and the comedy of the absurd. Max Awards 2023: Best Newcomer Show and Best New Playwright
Saturday 19 October 18:00 h. Circus show
Paseo de San Francisco
Lullaby
From Project Kavauri
Performers and direction: Claudia Ortiz and Carmine Piccolo Company: Proyecto Kavauri (Andalucía)
Duration: 50 minutes
Suitable for all audiences
A duo of new parents present us with a show of scales and acrobatic stunts where they perform frenetic jumps and last-minute grabs. Five minutes before the show starts, the babysitter doesn't show up. There is no alternative: the show has to start and the baby will accompany them. They grab the trolley and take to the dance floor.
The hardest part will not be the mortals and the pirouettes, but the reconciliation. And this is how chaos and clumsiness become comedy to reach the final goal: to finish the show having survived the acrobatics of parenthood.
Circada 2023 Festival Award
Saturday 19 October 21:00 h.
Invisible
Direction and interpretation: María Lama Choreography: María Lama
Artistic and technical puppetry: José Antonio Puchades and Julieta Gascón (Cia ZeroenConducta)
Puppet construction: Vicente Andreu
Musical composition: Oscar López Plaza and themes by Mario Batkovic. Company: María Lama (Extremadura)
Duration: 60 minutes
The dance-theatre show Invisible, conceived by María Lama, is a moving enquiry into the world of a retired professional dancer, who recreates and creates the universe of experiences lived in a climate of oblivion and the search for an elusive past. The work plunges into the decline of an artist, accompanied by her alter ego, a puppet that makes her elusive present vibrate.
Invisible is a work that challenges the spectator to reflect on memory, identity, love and loss, through the powerful fusion of dance and theatre, showing that even in oblivion, beauty and art can find a way to endure.
María Lama, choreographer, dancer and actress, uses her many talents to explore a highly symbolic stage space that helps to place the spectator in the emotional context of the story. Invisible is a reflection on the deterioration and loss of memory, which gives the show a universal dimension that transcends the fleetingness of the immediate.
Extremaduran project selected to premiere at the Festival.
Tuesday 22 October 21:00 h.
The outbreak
Author and director: Emiliano Dionisi Performer: Roberto Peloni
Company: Criolla (Argentina)
Running time: 95 minutes
An actor begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality and now distrusts the person who writes the events of his life. What kind of character are we in this story? A play that acidly portrays contemporary obsessions and neuroses.
El brote touches very sensitive places such as the sense of justice, deservedness, frustration, but it also refers to the relevance that theatre has in a society and why culture is important. It talks about theatre, but from the texts of the classics, internal, personal conflicts begin to be revealed.
Since its premiere in 2023 in Buenos Aires, the play, which acidly portrays contemporary obsessions and neuroses, has become a phenomenon on the billboard. Winner of several awards, the show has been acclaimed by critics and audiences, who highlight its powerful text and the titanic work of its protagonist.
Wednesday 23 October 21:00 h.
Our daily bar
Written and directed by Antonio Romera Chipi
Performers: Antonio Romera Chipi, Javier Galiana de la Rosa (piano), Bernardo Parrilla (winds) and Malick Mbengue (percussion) Company: La mar sonora ()
Duration: 90 minutes
A humorous musical monologue in which the bars are vindicated, not only as a place of leisure, but also as places of worship to life and to ourselves.
With the theatre transformed into a tavern, Antonio Romera Chipi, bartender at El Bar nuestro de cada día, is forced to carry out the last wish of the deceased "Malandro", a regular customer who has preferred to leave a paid party at the bar rather than a conventional burial of the deceased.
mortuary. Chipi improvises a pagan ceremony for "Malandro" turning the wake, as requested by the deceased, into a party to celebrate his life instead of mourning his death. During the show, between anecdotes and songs, he unravels his life and his story, with its lights and shadows. A peculiar character who, with his passing through life, leaves us a legacy of daily wisdom that will serve as a vital learning experience for those present.
The audience, turned into bar patrons, is also a part o f this healing party that, through music, words and humour, reconciles us with death and invites us to enjoy life.
Award for the best show at the Palma Performing Arts Fair
Thursday 24 October 21:00 h.
In the afterlife
By Miguel Murillo Gómez Director:
Jorge Moraga
Performer: Cándido Gómez
Company: KRG Audiovisual (Extremadura) Duration: 50 minutes
Murillo's work demonstrates his profound knowledge of human nature, his ability to observe the behaviour of characters who are close and recognisable and with whom the audience can identify, all wrapped up in a magnificent literary quality that enhances his figure as one of the most important playwrights on the national theatre scene. The leading actor, Cándido Gómez, will have the opportunity to shine, thrill and amuse the audience, showing off his talent in a play that depicts loneliness and is based on apparently everyday aspects that gradually reflect the deterioration that the passage of time causes in us. We don't appreciate something until we lose it. Perhaps this is the most acid substrate of loneliness, the guilty sensation of not having appreciated the
little things that made our lives more bearable and that were the protagonists of those who accompanied us. At the end of it all, every
Each of us is condemned to live in times of loneliness, and memory will either relieve or insist on the pain we have accumulated.
Extremaduran project selected to premiere at the Festival.
Friday 25 October 21:00 h.
Carmen, nothing from anyone
Director: Fernando Soto
Performers: Beatriz Argüello, Oriol Tarrasón, Ana Fernández and Víctor Massan.
Company: Tablas más tablas/Teatro Español (Madrid) Duration: 90 min.
Carmen Díez de Rivera's life was so exceptional that it has parallels with Greek tragedies such as Antigone or Ariadne. Born into a bizarre family background, into the upper echelons of the Spanish aristocracy, she renounced class privileges and reached a position that no woman has ever held in this country: head of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister's Office.
And she did so in one of the most complex and intense periods in Spain's history: the transition. She fought, often alone, against everything and everyone. Possessing a strong will and an intelligent outlook, she was always determined to guide her country towards democracy. Her strength and courage in this public task contrasted with her sadness and her inability to find inner peace, broken since her adolescence by a family secret that tormented her.
On stage, Carmen recounts the high points of her intense and challenging political career while recalling the intimate episodes that marked her unhappiness and her character. Some of the most important figures in our history will pass through her memory and through our eyes.
Saturday 26 October 21:00 h.
Mahmud and not only Mahmud
Based on the book Departing to tell by Mahmud Troré and Bruno le Dantec
Address: Zenaida Alcalde
Cast: Thomas King (actor), Dnoe Lamiss (actress/singer), Elvis Kyengo Kakiti (circus performer), Colins Ouna Opiyo (circus performer), Joel Bwana Anabaka (circus performer)
Company: Punto Cero Company (Spain/Senegal) Duration: 90 minutes
Recommended for children aged 12 and over
Theatre/Circus show Mahmud y no solo Mahmud tells a true story through words, acrobatics and live songs. The story of a young Senegalese man who leaves his hometown in search of work in the neighbouring country, where a civil war breaks out. What was to be a relatively simple journey turns into a nightmare because of the consequences of colonialism, the lack of legal channels for safe mobility due to European funding to countries like Niger and Morocco for the control of migratory movements, labour exploitation and racism.
PRICES
47TH BADAJOZ INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
From 11 to 26 October 2024
GENERAL ADMISSION
12 €
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DISCOUNT FOR YOUTH CARD HOLDERS, PENSIONERS,
UNEMPLOYED, FATEX AND UAPEX MEMBERS
6 €
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GENERAL SUBSCRIPTION:
Single price: 75 € (13 performances)
Includes subscriber-only catalogue and voting rights for the
public prize.
Out of subscription
• Monday 14 October
All my enemies
This show will take place with the audience on stage. Seating is
limited to 120 people.
12 €
• Saturday 19 October Paseo de San Francisco
Lullaby
Free
TICKET AND SEASON TICKET SALES
López de Ayala Theatre Box Office
From 12:00 to 14:00
From 18:00 to 21:00
OPENING OF DOORS:
HALF AN HOUR BEFORE THE SPECTACLE
SIDE EVENTS
Sunday 13 October 12:00 h.
Children's black light workshop by Katua & Galea Teatro Recommended for children between 6 and 12 years of age Duration: 90 minutes
Maximum: 20 students
Clothing: Clothing that can be soiled is advisable, or any clothing that covers the child's clothing will do.
From the creation of simple puppets with different materials, during the workshop, characters will be built. The common thread of this workshop is a Carnival of Bugs. Therefore, it is proposed to the participants to create their own characters - puppets of black light and to endow them with name and a characteristic to create jointly a parade of bugs that will be presented to the public in a theatrical scene representing The Carnival of the Bugs. At the end of the workshop, family members are welcome to attend this small performance.
With this workshop, the children's creative skills are strengthened, to develop their manual abilities, to encourage interest in literature and theatre through play, to disseminate theatrical knowledge and to promote literary and theatrical play.
The participants will learn the technique of the puppet theatre of black light and the manipulation of the puppet, in which the voice, the word, the corporal expression, the gestuality and the movement in scene will be worked.
The Creative Process in Theatre' Debate Days Theatre Café
Sunday 20 October 10:00 to 14:00 h.
Organised by: UAPEX. Union of Actors and Actresses of Extremadura.
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The actor-performer
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The actor-director
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The actor-producer
Colloquium on the situation of the Performing Arts in Extremadura, from the actor's point of view.
Theatre Café
Sunday 20 October 20:00 h.
Dramatised reading of the winning play of the first UAPEX call for theatrical texts.
Monday 21 October 10:00 to 14:00 h.
Masterclass Emiliano Dionisi, author and director of the play El brote (The Sprout)
Registration: From 18 September to 10 October Email: bgonzalez@teatrolopezdeayala.es
Maximum: 20 persons
INTENSIVE ACTINGSEMINAR. It is open to experienced artists looking to find new approaches to their work, deepen the training of their expressive tools and learn about the path developed by the company as a research group. As well as those who want to get started in the field of acting in an accessible and enjoyable way.
AUDIENCE AWARD INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL OF BADAJOZ
The López de Ayala Theatre invites Festival subscribers to vote for their favourite show of this year's edition. The play that receives the highest number of votes during this process will win the Audience Award of the 47th Badajoz International Theatre Festival.
This award is not only intended as recognition for the winning show, but also as a way to involve and value the audience, who support the performing arts sector with their attendance.
Those subscribers who wish to vote may do so on the last day of the Festival.
All participants will be entered in a draw for a ticket for two people for the next edition of the Festival.
