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The Roman Theater of Cartagena has been the space chosen today, March 27, at 12 o'clock to read a manifesto on the occasion of World Theater Day by the hand of the Cartagena actor Eusebio Lázaro, with the aim of raising awareness of the value of the arts Scenarios for citizenship.
The act was attended by the actor Eusebio Lázaro, the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón;
the mayor of Culture, Education and Youth, David Martínez;
and the president of the Performing Arts Platform, Lito Campillo.
The mayor has narrated "some hard and realistic words that show us the true meaning of the theater and its end", by the theater director, performer and Lebanese writer, Maya Zbib.
"The theater is here to return the power and meaning of the words, to steal the empty speech and return it to the right place, the arena of ideas and debates, the space of the collective vision", said the mayor paraphrasing to Zbib.
For his part, the mayor of Culture has highlighted the figure of Eusebio Lázaro, "a great Cartagena actor who although young marched has never forgotten his hometown", as well as his extensive stage formation.
He also recalled that the reading of the manifesto is part of a year that recalls the figure of Isidoro Maíquez, "who marked the steps of modern theater, introducing innovations in this art", and thanked the attendees of different groups theater his presence this morning.
Lito Campillo has stressed the importance of the City Council, the Department of Culture and the Performing Arts Platform join forces to achieve common goals "for the good of the culture of this city."
He has also called for a decentralization of culture in the city, taking it to neighborhoods and councils;
as well as a "non-privatized" municipal theater and a cultural program supported by groups free of politicization.
The actor Eusebio Lázaro has paraphrased a speech by Simon McBurnay during the reading of his manifesto, which can be read a fragment below:
Many say that the theater will not change or change any of this.
But the theater will not disappear.
Because theater is a place.
I am tempted to say a refuge.
Where communities congregate and form instantaneously.
As we have always done.
All the theaters are the size of the first human communities, from 50 to 14,000 souls.
From a nomadic caravan to a third of ancient Athens.
And because theater only exists in the present, it also challenges this disastrous vision of time.
The current moment is always the theme of the theater.
Its meanings are constructed in a community act between the artist and the public.
Not only here, but always now.
Without the act of the artist, the public could not believe.
Without the belief of the audience, the performance would not be complete.
We laugh at the same time.
We move.
We remain breathless or surprised in silence.
And at this moment, through the drama, we discover the deeper truth: that what we considered the most private division between us, the frontier of our own individual consciousness, has no boundaries.
It's something we share.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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