From Monday, September 25th to Sunday, October 1st
Companies and actors from Mexico present the best of the national theater
From September 25th to October 1st, the XII edition of the “Escena Mazatlán 2023” Theater Festival will take place, a cultural program with the best of national theater, an opportunity to meet and reflect, interact and exchange stage experiences that will enrich the public and the actors.
Six plays, two conferences and a workshop make up the billboard for this XII edition of Escena Mazatlán, which will be held at the Ángela Peralta Theater and Casa Haas, spaces where knowledge, theatrical experience and emotions will be combined through the representation of stories that try to go deeper, without leaving comedy aside.
The Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán, general producer of the long-awaited stage festival, invites the public to go to the theater to enjoy plays that “are worth it and will be liked.”
In addition, actors and the public will be able to attend conferences and a workshop given for those who wish to acquire theoretical and practical tools and improve their work as actors, theater teachers or simply learn the language of theater.
The theater festival begins on Monday, September 25th. At 8:00 p.m. at the Ángela Peralta Theater, Mr. Raúl Quintanilla Matiella will give the keynote address “Character and personality, paths to triumph. Admission is free with a ticket.
Quintanilla is a Master of Acting and Direction, member of the National System of Art Creators and Director of the Center for Training in Acting and Communication of Televisión Azteca. He is the author of the book “Estructura de la Ficción, el estado de ánimo” [structure of fiction, the state of mind].
From Monday, September 25th to Thursday, September 28th, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Casa Haas, maestro Miguel Alonso Gutiérrez will give the intensive workshop “Creación de personajes fársicos” [creation of fake characters], aimed at actresses, actors, dancers, singers and stage performers interested in discovering the multiple forms of expression based on bodily and vocal play.
On Tuesday, September 26th at 8:00 p.m. at the Ángela Peralta Theater, the company TeatrodeCiertosHabitantes presents “Quijote, vencedor de sí mismo” [Quijote, self-defeating] by Mónica Hoth and Claudio Valdés Kuri. Through a virtuoso acting performance, Quixote, vencedor de sí mismo presents a bold, fun and moving adventure, in which viewers become an essential part of the staging that will lead them to rediscover the joy of reading and find new meanings about failure and recover the desires for the common good.
On Wednesday, September 27th, in two performances at 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., the highest cultural venue will draw the curtain to receive Dear Daddy, a comedy of entanglements written by Rodolfo Rodríguez in which a divorced father (Humberto Zurita) decides to dress as a woman to meet the conservative parents of her daughter’s boyfriend. Television and commercial theater actors such as Stephanie Salas, Luis Gatica, Lambda García, Víctor González and Ivonne Zurita participate.
On Thursday, September 28th at 8:00 p.m., at the TAP [Angela Peralta Theater], the A.A. and Eight Cubic Meters, A.C. presents the play “Bambis dientes de leche’ [Bambis’ baby teeth], the story of the man who dances while playing soccer; the reminder that we are the collection of what we have experienced; piece by Antón Araiza performed by the same author under the direction of David Jiménez Sánchez.
On Friday, September 29th at 8:00 p.m., Ángela Peralta receives the company Los Tristes Tigres with the staging El Hijo de mi Padre with dramaturgy, direction and acting by Adrián Vázquez, one of the actors and creators of the most important contemporary theater in Mexico, who builds the story of Maxi (Chimino), a man who by force of will has endured the disagreements of fate to build himself. Adrián Vázquez’s playwriting reaches people’s hearts in a very intelligent and very simple way and always addresses the human condition.
On Saturday, September 30th at 5:00 p.m. at Casa Haas, maestro Hernán Galindo, author of ‘Los niños de sal’ will give a lecture on theatrical activity. Free entry, limited space.
Playwright, Theater Director, Producer and Cultural Promoter, Hernán Galindo has directed more than one hundred productions of universal authors, operas, musicals and multidisciplinary shows. He has more than a hundred plays written between short theater and large format works. His plays have been represented in various places in Mexico, New York, San Diego, Miami, Argentina and Rome.
On Saturday, September 3th0 at 8:00 p.m. at the Ángela Peralta Theater, the TeatroSinParedes collective presents Tártaro, a monologue starring Bernardo Gamboa that tells the story of the son born in the midst of poverty, rapeence and lack of opportunities. Tártaro goes beyond human psychology; Sergio López Vigueras’ dramaturgy exposes this problem through the prism of mythology and at the same time touches on a profoundly Mexican reality.
On Sunday, October 1st at 7:00 p.m., at the TAP, Iguana Roja Teatro directed by Ramón Gómez Polo presents Los Niños de Sal, a very beautiful and interesting play, a timeless tale about love, loss and the hope; tells the story of a man tormented by his past who, upon returning to his hometown, must face everything he left behind and make decisions that will move him forward in life.
Genesis of Escena Mazatlán
Escena Mazatlán created in 2011, was born with the idea of producing and raising the quality of Mazatlecan theater, making it public and training actors and directors, something that has been achieved and proof of this is that the Theater School directed by Mtro. Ramón Gómez Polo, is one of the fastest growing areas within the Municipal Arts Center.
The General Director of CULTURA, Raúl Rico González, recalled that before Escena there was a free theater school, at a basic level.
“And we decided that it had to be reinforced, enriched, but that we needed a reference, that is, what has happened with the other disciplines is that they had a great reference in cultural festivals, and in the case of theater it was not like that, so that’s how it was. (Escena) was born with the idea of making an audience, and at the same time training actors, training directors, writers, scriptwriters so that theater can be done in Mazatlán and I think it has positioned itself”.
He affirms that theater is a way of systematizing communication since citizens can debate through stories, establish clear positions, explain them and expand them from the texts of plays.
And the results are compelling because the plays have an argument and also involve us emotionally with what is happening, so that combination of emotion and the presence of the actor has a great effect on the viewer, he added.
Through Escena Mazatlán, the Mazatlan public has seen everything, from classical to contemporary theater, and although entertainment theater has not been lacking, the programming of this annual meeting tries to go deeper without leaving comedy aside.
The production of this annual meeting with the best of the national theater is committed to the construction and development of a better society because the arts forge character and people and a better society, he affirmed.
“We have seen the arts many times as mere entertainment and the truth is a goldsmith’s work that little by little advances and strengthens society, the arts make us capable of expressing more complex thoughts, they make us more sensitive to certain situations, we They allow us to look for options to address the problems,” he said.
He finally recognizes that the benefit of the arts is not tangible, it is not immediate and it is not measured at the box office as it is measured in the attitude of a society.
Tickets for the performances of Escena Mazatlán cost $200.00 general, numbered, and are available at the digital box office 669 120 0020 or at the Ángela Peralta Theater box office. More info at 669 982 4446. Ext. 103, except for tickets to enjoy the comedy “Daddy dear”, whose prices are: Orchestra – $800.00, 1st. Balcony – $650.00, 2nd. Balcony – $500.00, 3rd. Balcony – $350.00 for sale in Plaza Acaya and through www.boletomovil.com.
