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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.
The program was presented on Tuesday, March 10 in the Plaza de San Francisco, which has had a live theater performance, by José Ortas Cayuela, who has put himself in the shoes of Othello, the character who launched the Isidoro Máiquez is famous and with two renowned plastic artists, Petrus Borgia and Sofía Tornero, who have painted the monument to the actor live.
The councilor of the area of ​​Culture, David Martínez, explained that for months this ambitious program of Cultural Acts has been developed in order to turn the next 12 months into a true Year of Máiquez and Theater, throughout the municipality and the Region .
The program 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.
In addition, the mayor has indicated that from the City Council they have sent a petition to the Eleven so that a commemorative coupon can be issued, with the aim of giving transcendence and national visibility to the bicentennial and that they are also in procedures with mails to issue a commemorative stamp.
PROGRAMMING
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 event, 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 Luis Miguel Pérez Adán, a theater show with short scenes and a playwright of the actress Míriam Ortas, who recreates Antera Baus in his posthumous tribute in 1821. That same day the presentation of the XXI National Amateur Theater Contest "Isidoro Máiquez" will be held at 11:00 in the Plaza de San Francisco, with the Theater Group Algameca from the Barrio de la Concepción in Cartagena.
In addition, the reissue of the book "Isidoro Máiquez, the cursed actor" by Manuel Ponce will be presented on March 17 and 30 at 7:00 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia and at the Pedreño Palace, CajaMurcia Foundation of Cartagena.
The rest of the activities will be announced soon.
With respect to the logo, it has been designed by the Commission that will be used in acts, printed matter, posters, brochures, web and social networks, both of the Administrations and of the members of the Bicentennial Commission.
The logo is based on the portrait of Isidoro Máiquez made by his friend, the artist Goya.
Likewise, it includes a border and a theatrical mask that are part of the monument of the San Francisco square in Cartagena.
MÁIZQUEZ ACTOR AND RENEWER OF THE SCENE
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.
Similarly, 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.
The event was also attended by the Director General of Culture of the Region, Juan Antonio Lorca, the President of the Municipal Commission of Performing Arts, Alfredo Ávila, the Secretary of the Organizing Commission, Javier Lorente, and other members of the Commission and participating artists in the various acts.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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