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From the City Council of Cartagena, the Department of Culture is coordinating a program of events on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the death of the Cartagena actor Isidoro Máiquez that will take place throughout the year and that is born from the collaboration of a group of professionals from the world of culture, art, literature and the regional scene, with the support and participation of the Municipal Commission of Performing Arts of the Council of Culture.

For months an ambitious program of Cultural Acts has been developed in order to turn the next 12 months into a true Year of Máiquez and the Theater, throughout the municipality and the Region.

It includes exhibitions, book presentations, round tables and informative workshops with the aim of adding value and publicizing one of the essential references in the history of Spanish theater.

The initial act will take place on Tuesday, March 17 at Plaza San Francisco at 7:00 p.m. next to the sculpture that our city dedicated to it in 1927 with a commemorative act, which includes this year the installation of a plaque next to its sculpture and in which the outstanding role of Isidoro Máiquez in the performing arts of his time is explained, a semblance of the actor and his legacy made by the chronicler Miguel Pérez Abellán, a theater show with short scenes and a playwright of the actress Míriam Ortas , which recreates Antera Baus in his posthumous tribute in 1821.

Isidoro Máiquez's work as an actor and renovator of the scenic practice of his time

Following the European currents of the Enlightenment, he introduced models of naturalness and "good taste" in the interpretation, modified the traditional declamation and changed the theatrical conventions to improve the sensation of "reality" through the interpretation, the sets and the clothing.

With their attitude in defense of the profession and the independence of the individual, the actors abandoned a way of living and considering themselves, and the public began to accept them and respect them as members of society.

Máiquez was not an accommodating man, precisely.

Character, impetuous and strong personality, lived the theater twenty-four hours a day.

In the same way, Máiquez lived with passion many other aspects of the reality of the moment, outside the theater, and was a person committed to politics and social issues in Spain at the end of the 18th century.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena