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Mérida Festival: Assumpta Serna, Elena Ballesteros, Agustín Jiménez and Carlos Sobera, at the Mérida Festival


Family photo in the Presidency of the Board during the presentation of the program of the Mérida Festival, this noon. / J M. ROMERO

The 68th edition will start on July 1 and end on August 21, with seven theatrical performances and two ballet performances

An Argentine production from the Buenos Aires Theater Complex in Argentina, with a version of ‘Julio César’, begins the programming of the 68th edition of the Mérida International Classical Theater Festival. It will be July 1. The great cultural event of the summer will last until August 21, it will have seven theatrical shows in the Roman Theater of Merida plus two dance ones. Assumpta Serna, Beatriz Carvajal, Agustín Jiménez, Angy Fernández, Els Joglars, and Carlos Sobera on television are some of those who make up the poster for a Festival that will once again have full capacity available after two years of restrictions due to the pandemic. In an emeritense key, this year’s edition means recovering a symbolic stage for the city, the María Luisa Theater-Cinema, which will feature works from the Festival itself for its reopening, with Els Joglarse as master of ceremonies. At the same time, representations are maintained in Regina (El Brujo will be there), Medellín and Cáparra.

Jesús Cimarro, director of the Festival who is celebrating his eleventh year at the helm, has highlighted, first of all, the presence of an international production with which he begins with an Argentine version of Julius Caesar, the Shakespeare classic. In its distribution, among others, Moria Casan, Marita Ballesteros or Alejandro Radano. After her, a musical, ‘Safo Fragmento 36’ with Christina Rosenvinge, under the direction of Marta Pazos.

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A comedy, a version of ‘El Misántropo’, by Menandro, is the next show, with Beatriz Carvajal and Jesús Castejón. It will be from July 13 to 17. The renowned Assupta Serna, with a Scotsman, Scott Cleverdon, lead the cast of ‘Minerva’. Cleverdon is also its director.

Other works

The end of the July program comes with the ballet by Rafaela Carrasco, with flamenco on stage putting on their version of ‘Ariadna, in line with the myth’. At the dance, Rafaela Carrasco and Rafael Ramírez, among them. A second ballet, ‘De Scheherazade’, comes later, with María Pagés in the lead.

An old and always successful text by Plautus, ‘Miles gloriosus’, one of the great Latin comedies, serves to open August. It is one of the highlights of the program due to its theme and its cast: Carlos Sobera, Elena Ballesteros or Elisa Matilla among them. It will be from August 3 to 7.

A musical comedy, with a Broadway aroma, lands from August 10 to 14, with the comedian from Trujillo Agustín Jiménez among its protagonists. It’s ‘The Smell of Rome’. The address is provided by Woody Aragón.

A work by María Zambrano closes the Mérida Festival with ‘La tumba de Antígona’, which indicates where the tragic show is going. The address is Cristina Silveira. In the cast, Ana García from Extremadura, Cristina Pérez Bermejo and Elena Rocha.

At the María Luisa Theater-Cinema, theatrical life is recovered with Els Joglars. It will be on July 2, with Ramón Fontseré as director and actor.


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