Prepare your agenda this month! November reverberates with important theatrical premieres in Las Peñas, Samborondón and Urdesa

November welcomes you to the busiest season for the Guayaquil scene. During this week the theaters of the city raise their curtains to stage outstanding premieres that will be on their billboards all or most of the month (even until the first days of December in certain cases). The drama and comedy in monologues with a woman’s voice, in compromising situations between friends and couples and in the memories and experiences of ‘our dear older ones’ star in this eclectic marquee.

Urban legend with a modern twist on Give me my heart back

The Ecuadorian oral tradition, with its supernatural characters and urban legends, has been the great interest of the novel playwright Henry Silva, who debuts with his first long-format work. Is about Give me my heart back, a thriller inspired by the myth of María Angula. Talk about a woman who is not such a good wife, or a very spoiled girl, depending on the version, if she is coastal or mountain.

The point is that because she is distracted, she does not buy food for her house, so it occurs to her to gut a dead person and prepare his entrails. The ghost of the deceased begins to haunt her at all times, giving rise to the expression “the dead man ‘pulls your legs’ while you sleep,” explains Silva, who also directs the piece. “I modified this story with issues that seem important to me, such as physical and psychological violence in couples, but keeping the spirit that there are consequences in our actions.”

In the skin of María Angula is the renowned actress Joselyn Gallardo. “Her character is presented in a mental space where she is cornered by these ghosts who blame her for a crime, interact with her through sounds and games of light,” the director advances. This is a development of the Peñasilva production company, made up of Silva, Gerardo and Mariana Peña, which seeks to dramatize the works of Guayaquil playwrights.

Functions on November 12, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21 in the La Bota room (Malecón del Salado).

Lost: A great friendship in danger

Juan (Francisco Aguiñaga) and Luis (Andrés Olmedo) are not only co-workers but also great friends, the kind that tell each other about everything to help each other. One of those personal conversations takes an unexpected turn when one tells the other that he likes his wife! This is the plot of the comedy Lost, whose presentations start on Friday, November 12 at Casa Cino Fabiani (Las Peñas).

“It is a light proposal, the public is going to have fun watching these characters ‘suffer’ … seeing how they go to the extreme to discover something”, anticipates David Morejón, director of the work.

This week: two theatrical premieres at Las Peñas

The dramaturgy was written by the Catalan Ramón Madaula, who, according to Morejón, is a very relevant figure at the moment in the Spanish stage circuit. In fact, he adds, in Spain it is a box office success under the direction of Ignassi Vidal, another director who has participated in the House. The translation was in charge of Roberta Pasquinucci, also a collaborator at Cino Fabiani. “The work was chosen by the producer of the house Arnaldo Gálvez, who has produced other texts that talk about how everyday life breaks with something as close as friendship, such as Dignity, The plan, Coexistence”, Morejón explains.

This is a joint production of the Casa Cino Fabiani and the Sánchez Aguilar Theater, for the reactivation of the cultural sector hit by the pandemic. For this reason, it will be available until December 11, 2021 at Las Peñas and then, from January 13 to 22, 2022, at Sánchez Aguilar.

Infidelity and bisexuality in The platypus

What would happen if we add a third party to our relationship? The platypus the moral and personal consequences of this choice are taken with great humor, while also leading us to question the patterns of our sexuality. The title is a parallel used by the author of this piece, the Mexican playwright Humberto Robles (San Ginés de oro 2019 award), based on the discovery in the 19th century of the platypus, whose origin was indecipherable, explains Adrián Cárdenas, director of the construction site. “It was not known if this animal was oviparous or mammal, then they realized that it was both, so the author takes this concept to the level of human relationships, which can also be equally indecipherable.”

The play ‘The Platypus’ invites us to have fun and reflect on sexuality in modern times

This staging is a stellar production of the Paulsen Studio, since only the artists who were trained in that acting house participate, such as Cárdenas, there is also Raúl Sánchez McMillan, a teacher of the Meisner technique within that institution, and the graduated actors Lissette Rezabala and Alfredo Salomón.

It can be enjoyed from Thursday, November 11 to 20 this month, at Estudio Paulsen (Las Peñas).

Giovanna Andrade does catharsis in Miss Funnyverse

Those who do not know it yet, Giovanna AndradeAn Ecuadorian actress, since she was a child she also wanted to participate in a Miss Ecuador and thus be the sovereign of national beauty. The dream came true a couple of years ago, in December 2019, in China, when she became vice-queen of Mrs. Globe, a contest open to married women, like her. However, the once protagonist of I sell black eyes and The novel of Cholito He emphatically resigned the crown.

Did the dream turn into a nightmare or a great disappointment? We will only know that by attending his monologue Miss Funnyverse, that Andrade will premiere this Wednesday, November 10 at the Teatro al Aire Libre space of the Sánchez Aguilar Theater, where he says that he will “reveal everything”.

Giovanna Andrade: ‘Television feeds me, theater gives me life’

“I wrote the skeleton of the play, it is my life story, and (the playwright) Martha Márquez turns it into a wonderful play where she recounts the reasons that lead me to resign, her coherence in life, her values, her principles , her love for the profession, for the country, that of wanting to help women and not steal their dreams ”, explains the Colombian-based actress. The scenic proposal is also a pretext to honor the 18 years of his artistic career.

The performances will be available every Wednesday for a month, until December 15.

The last themed season in Pop Up

The first season of the year of Pop Up Theater Café it was We were born againr, a way of receiving 2021 that was more uncertain than safe, due to the pandemic and the changes it brought after months of confinement and restrictions on events and meetings. The works at this time followed the theme of seeing life as children, that is, with innocence and expectation.

Now that the year is about to end, conveniently the characters have also aged and now the theme that started this month is The golden years. “We started the years as children, with this theme we are saying goodbye to 2021, the year that has already ‘aged’”, says David Castro, artistic programmer of this scene in Urdesa. “For December, which is a short month, we will put the works that have had the most acceptance during the year,” he adds.

There are four comedies, for all audiences, in which the protagonists belong to the third age and live different situations with the wisdom that their decades of existence have brought them.

Not one more, starring Gabriel Gallardo and Gabriel Shapiro (with his text). It is the story of two old men who decide to found an organization of battered husbands and shout not one more!

Father for a day, with Mimo Cava and Majo Avilés, the text is by Ariel Zöller. Under the direction of Sebastián Perdomo. Mimo is a nice man who lives in an asylum where he relives the most beautiful moments of his youth.

The promise Tackles a past love oath in the future. With the performances of Luis Mayorga and Daniela Rodríguez and the direction of Alberto Moreno.

Chente (Luis Fernando García) and Pancha (Gabriela Andrade), on the other hand, are a fun married couple who face deafness and memory loss with a lot of humor, but above all with a lot of love. Text and direction by Ricardo Velasteguí. (AND)