Fiartes-G will inaugurate its 2022 edition with a program that pays homage to ‘Teatro El Juglar’, in its 45 years

As of this December 1st, the theater will live its own party with in the Guayaquil International Performing Arts Festival (Fiartes-G), which this year commemorates its 25th edition with a completely local program.

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This edition brings together groups from Guayaquil and Quito such as El Juglar, Estudio de actores, Malayerba y otras Yerbas, Teatro Ensayo Gestus, Ubriaco, Teatro Independiente de Quito, and Zona Escena.

This year the Fiartes-G is dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the emblematic ‘The Minstrel Theatre’where artists such as Ernesto Suarez, Oswaldo Seguro, Marcelo Gálvez, Sandra Pareja, Augusto Enríquez, Lucho Aguirres, Azucena Mora, Miriam Murillo, and many others, who will also attend this meeting.

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Jorge Parradirector of Fiartes-G, was a member of El Juglar, for which he is honored to carry out this tribute that includes the revival of the iconic work Guayaquil Super Star, starring actors from the group itself.

Guayaquil Superstar In its staging, it exhibits Buenos Aires prints in which characters from different social classes stand out in common settings and with their popular jargon, which was used in the years in which the work was premiered.

For the inauguration, this Thursday, December 1 at 6:00 p.m., a commemorative colloquium will be held, in which they will talk about popular theater and the incidence of El Juglar in the city and in the environment. This dialogue will be preceded by Lola Márquez, Marina Salvarezza, Marcelo Leyton, and Augusto Enríquez. “In addition, the Minstrel is going to make a theatrical surprise for the public”

This year’s billboard includes the works The citizen, Tongue, The announcement, Prudence, Rags Y perencejo “I would come closer to thinking that this edition is focused on that type of experimental language. The social and political aspects are also very present”, Parra comments.

He says that since its inception the festival has had the purpose of generating a management model that mobilizes the theater of Guayaquil, the theater of the country, and the theater of Latin America. “The festival in its history itself has tried to find a language closer to the diversity of the ways of producing and doing theater. In fact, we have managed to attract things that are linked from postmodernity, from the expanded zone, to theater by Latin American groups and classical theater that has come from Spain”, he notes. In his 25-year career, he has summoned groups from the five continents.

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Parra indicates that one of the most contemporary pieces is perencejostarring Mario Suarez. The actor himself describes this monologue as a satire that walks with social and political events. “Perencejo is a dead prisoner in one of the Guayaquil prisons and in this agony of his trial process, everything is taken to a media show”Suarez explains.

This is how, through a game between the clown and the public, some elements of society are questioned. “It’s fun, it also implies a challenge because to do it you have to have a very trained body, a very trained vocal range… it’s like a very honest work, the poetry is elsewhere”, says the actor about this work that will close the festival on December 10 at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased on the Zona Escena social networks (@zonaescena.ec), at the theater ticket offices (they will be sold half an hour before each performance), or you can make your reservations at 0993937273. Tickets cost $20.00 general and $10.00 for students, the elderly and people with disabilities.

All performances are at 7:00 p.m. from December 1 to 10, in Casa Zona Escena, located at Imbabura 204 and Panama. (YO)