Friday, March 29

The Plaza de San Jorge de Cáceres surrenders to the theater of the Golden Age


‘The three musketeers’ has opened the XXXIII Cáceres Classical Theater Festival. / GEORGE KING

The adaptation of ‘The Three Musketeers’ opened a festival yesterday in San Jorge with a total of 19 shows

Cristina Nunez

The adventures of youth and friendship of ‘The three musketeers’ have filled this Thursday the Plaza de San Jorge with Golden Age theater in the first performance of the Cáceres Classical Theater Festival. A warm welcome with a good entrance that opens the door to three weekends with comedy and drama as protagonists.

There was a desire for theater and the public has responded at the box office. Since Thursday, the works for this weekend: ‘El avaro’, which is performed on Friday and ‘Tartufo’, on Saturday, have hung the ‘no tickets’ sign. Therefore, the 390 seats available for each pass have been exhausted. Molière, one of the ‘leitmotifs’ of this XXXIII Classical Theater Festival, has hooked the Cáceres public, which has thus given a warm welcome to a contest that premiered yesterday with the work staged by the companies Marmore & ESTE-Estaçao Theatrical. This stage, which this year brings together most of the shows, will host from 10:30 pm on Friday ‘El Avaro’, which puts on ‘Atalaya’, a veteran and award-winning theater company from Seville. It is an adaptation in a musical key, with a choir and a small orchestra on stage. The main actress, Carmen Gallardo, plays the male role of Harpagón, “a rich and petty individual who lives in terror of being robbed of the trunk where he has hidden his treasure,” explains the press release sent by the organization.

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The prose comedy that premiered in 1668 at the Palais-Royal theater in Paris is inspired by ‘The Pot’, a play by Plautus. Egoism is the main theme of this performance with eight actors on stage and a provocative staging.

Image of the play ‘El avaro’, which arrives on Friday at Plaza San Jorge. /

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The second and last Molière of this contest is the one that is represented tomorrow, Saturday. This is ‘Tartuffe’, “a criticism of the false devotees, of the hypocrites who appear under the guise of people with strong Christian values ​​and who hide other interests.” Lantia Escénica, a company from Madrid, is behind this production, directed by Ernesto Caballero. He describes, according to the press kit, the figure of the flatterer who takes advantage of a bourgeois to keep all his assets.

Pepe Viyuela, who last Wednesday attended the presentation of this theater festival, is the protagonist of this play, which also premiered at the Palais-Royal theater in the Parisian capital but a year later than ‘El avaro’, in 1669. It is a comedy in five acts.

The first weekend of the Classical Theater Festival culminates with ‘A night with the classics’, an original idea by Adolfo Marsillach that his daughter Blanca Masillach and Miguel Rellán put on stage, and where the poetry of great poets of the Golden Age such as Sor Juana nés de la Cruz, Calderón de la Barca, Garcilaso de la Vega or Gil Vicente among other authors. It is at 10:30 p.m., also in San Jorge.

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Children’s workshop for making minstrel costumes. / GEORGE KING

Dress up a minstrel costume or listen to old music at El Clásico

Not everything in the Classic is plays. The programming is aligned with other appointments, such as the one that started yesterday in the Gloria Fuertes park. Schoolchildren from 4 to 12 years old learned to make minstrel costumes (hats, skirts, ruffs and other accessories such as a medieval tambourine). Based on garbage bags or newspapers, they carried out their production of costumes, a workshop run by the company Atakama Cultural Creativity.

This Friday the ‘Classical Notes’ cycle kicks off with the concert ‘Romances de amor y muerte, Cántica’. It is a project by the musicians Emilio Villalba and Sara Marina dedicated to the music preserved in medieval codices and Renaissance songbooks from the 13th to 16th centuries. For all audiences, it is celebrated at 8:00 p.m. in the Church of the Precious Blood.

The exhibition ‘Del criñaque al bustle’ is now open at the Cáceres Museum, which aims to learn about the evolution of European fashion between the 1830s and 1880s. You can see, among other things, the contrast between the sober masculine fashion of the time and the opulence that marked the dress of women.


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