Tomorrow is the big day to the Tanit theater group of the Council of Women of the City of Cartagena, which premiered at the New Theatre Circus, Comedy Jardiel Enrique Ponce, Angelina or honor of a brigadier, targeting the association collection Asido Cartagena (Association for Comprehensive Care of People with Down Syndrome and their Families Cartagena).
In the low canopy of Sister Francisca Armendariz, enthusiasm, work and love for the theater to be felt in the air.
And, in analogy to the scenes of a theater, the space is well characterized with different signs of the work that this group of women has been doing for seventeen years, wigs or pictures of those great moments we have shared .
We are with last minute nerves, the group's director confesses Lola Martinez, libretto in hand prepares to follow closely the dress rehearsal yesterday afternoon that included a exceptional guest: l Female councilor, Clara Heredia The Cartagena Asido manager, Carmen Vargas-Machuca, and one of the users of this association, Patricia Martinez.
Under the premise that good theater has no boundaries, and to paraphrase García Lorca, killing time there are other thing s, these twenty-two women rehearse two days a week, Tuesday and Friday, and on special occasions to make extra rehearsals that everything runs smoothly.
We are an excuse, a speaker to make known to all the work of Asido cartageneros stresses Councilwoman Woman, without further ado who gave the floor to the manager of the association, created by the parents, and that is especially aimed at those with Down syndrome or other intellectual disabilities.
Currently we serve 104 families, explains Carmen, and provide services from primary care (up to six) to the area where Patricia, the occupational center and day center.
à ‰ sta who recounts last is where practices have been conducted: in Repsol, in Computer Valera or Marine Infantry School. Ultimately, the work of this association is not other than to normalize the lives of these people and accompanying their Routes of life.
The input for the work that will be performed on Thursday April 11 at two sessions in the New Theatre Circus, at 18.00 and 21.30 hours, is three euros.
Asido can be picked in the Council of Women (Edificio La Milagrosa, Francisco Armendariz s / n), and in the windows of the New Theatre Circus (c / Tolosa Latour, 23).
Comedy ABSURD
Also titled A drama in 1880,
Angelina or honor of a brigadier, is a three-act play in verse and Spanish playwright Jardiel Enrique Ponce. Was released in 1934 and with it the author managed to conquer Hollywood.'s A comedy of manners, but especially Poncela Style The total absurdity, admits the group's director Tanit, who claimed to be the successor of Peter Muñoz Seca, author of Don Mendo's Revenge.
Everything revolves around the love affairs of Angelina, played by Rosario, who has been involved twenty five years and admits that personal therapy is perfect, while daily routine breaks.
Angelina has a boyfriend, Rodolfo, who finds it hard to discover the deception, and a lover, German, played by Chelo.
My character is the traitor, the seducer, but has a good heart, says Chelo, who will feature for the first time in man.
Marcela, Angelina's mother, is another of the major characters, with Don Marcial, Brigadier is staged by Eloina, and who will fight a duel to see his damaged honor.
The humor and surrealism are the hallmarks of this comedy, which will be interpreted by a charitable purpose.
Solidarity, but also the love of theater, as recognized Carlota, one of the youngest members, are the main attraction not to be missed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena