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The Caciques, the well-known work of Carlos Arniches, is the last assembly of the Murcian company Alquibla Teatro, which on Wednesday, November 7, will go up to the tables of the Nuevo Teatro Circo de Cartagena at 9:30 p.m., scheduled by the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena.
The piece, a grotesque tragicomedy about corruption in Spain, features a version of the professor and stage director César Oliva.
Tickets are already on sale at the theater box office and on the web www.nuevoteatrocirco.com.
The presentation has run in charge this Monday, November 5, by the hand of the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez;
who has been accompanied by the director, Antonio Saura;
and the actor Manuel Llamas, who will give life to Don Acisclo.
The actors Julio Navarro, in the role of Pepe Ojeda;
Esperanza Clares, like Eduarda;
Manuel Llamas, like Don Acisclo;
Lola Martínez, playing Cesárea;
Nadia Clavel, in the skin of Cristina;
Alberto García Tormo, like Alfredo;
Pedro Santomera, like Morrones;
Luis Martínez Arasa, in the role of Honorio Cazorla;
and Manuel Reyes in Don Régulo, star in this story "fun and critical, a mixture of tradition and innovation".
Saura has pointed out that Los Caciques, which he defines as a shaker of humor, tenderness and love, is not just fun or entertainment, but also awaits a deep background of a serious issue, such as corruption, which continues to this day and will be next Thursday. in the tables of the New Theater Circus of the hand of nine actors with high level of interpretive excellence.
Although Arniches wrote the work in 1920, the proposal of Alquibla Teatro is set in 1932, during the government of Manuel Azaña.
The action takes place in a small town called Villalgancio, where two individuals arrive in order to rehabilitate a lost love.
There they find that the authorities live on corruption and bribery.
At the same time, they continue, the hierarchs wait alarmed the visit of the delegate of the Government that must inspect the accounts of the municipality.
By chance, it crosses the presence of those who came for skirts with those who think they are government envoys.
This originates all kinds of confessions that will leave the behavior of some and others in their place.
The version of César Oliva has introduced some elements of The General Inspector of Nikolai Gogol, the work that inspired Arniches.
Directed by Antonio Saura, the montage offers a delicate balance between the traditional and the contemporary;
the rapture and the subtlety;
the interpretative passion and the ethical commitment;
the fun and a ritual of confrontation of ideas, emotions and sensations that moves it away from the mere theater of evasion.
Los Caciques is a production by Alquibla Teatro and Teatro Romea de Murcia, with the collaboration of the Municipal Auditorium Miguel Ángel Clares de Algezares, as well as the Institute of Cultural Industries and Arts of the Region (ICA), through the Plan Escena.
The show is also subsidized by the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (Inaem) of the Ministry of Culture.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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