What to see, what to do in Guayaquil this Saturday, October 23, 2021

Concert as a tribute to Soda Stereo

On Tribute Nights of the TCA, Dynamo promise a show first class, very faithful to the original and characteristic sound of the best rock band in Spanish of all time: Soda Stereo. The essence of this commemorative concert is allusive to the tour You will see me come back. The Guayaquil band Tributo a Soda Stereo, formed by Daniel Sais (former Soda Stereo player) and Juan Carlos Macio (drums) in 2004, meets again after several years to perform a series of concerts in tribute to the Argentine group. In the beginning they made several presentations in some cities of Ecuador. Dynamo is made up of Fabrizzio Ferretti (guitar and voice), Giovanni Hernández (bass and backing vocals) and Juan Carlos Macio (drums). Admission: $ 25 (TicketShow or TCA box offices). 21:00, Experimental Room of the Art Center Theater (Av. Del Bombero).

Juanita Córdova and her 50 years on stage

The Ecuadorian artist Juanita Cordova He began his career playing national music. At the age of 3 he was already singing corridors and at 5 he won his first Ecuadorian music festival in the canton of La Libertad. For his Golden Jubilee he will offer Singing to the sun, a concert online with live musicians, together with his sons Germán and Lucho Gálvez and renowned national interpreters with a long history, such as Fresia Saavedra, Hilda Murillo and César Augusto Montalvo. 20:30, live broadcast from the Isabella events room (Santa Paula), through Facebook and from the accounts @danielcisneros and @juanitatuvoz.

Book launches and writing workshop

“Solange’s tradition is not based on taxonomies, but on the lascivious accumulation of species, like a Noah who amuses himself by embarking trios and other odd numbers on his ship. As if that Noah thought that the only possibility of survival to this series of post-millennial catastrophes consisted in the commitment to heterogeneity ”, says the foreword of the book From a rare world from As long as Rodríguez cardboard, who will be accompanied by David Roas and Ana Martínez Castillo. The book will be presented from Spain at 11:00 (Ecuador time) through the YouTube channel and Facebook Live of InLimbo, the publisher.

In Quito, the writer Yahaira Recalde Velasco will present his book And that would be it, basically. Regarding the writer, Mónica Varea comments: “Talented, friendly, irreverent and free, her writing takes us from laughter to tears, to bring us back to laughter. This week (his book) will come out of the oven and I will share his happiness, which is also mine ”. This outdoor activity is organized by Librería Rayuela with the participation of María Fernanda Heredia and Juan Pablo Morales. Free entry. 11:00, Monument to Churchill (González Suárez y Coruña, Quito).

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she wants to write fiction“, wrote Virginia Woolf in his work A room of my own. Woolf is one of the most representative writers of modernism noted for her mastery of writing interior monologues and streams of consciousness. In October, Adelaida Jaramillo, director of Palabralab proposes to read works by authors and also to write as one of them using this exercise taken from the book Creative writer’s notebook: Try to write with the Woolf method. Use a page or two to write down your thoughts on any topic that interests you. Don’t worry about the grammar, or how it’s read – you don’t even need to read it again. Today Saturday the creative writing laboratory will begin Draft in a virtual way and on Thursday 28 the face-to-face session will officially begin, of which there are still few places. And next week the culture club book of the month will be announced. To register you must send a message by whatsapp to +59390250253 or [email protected] to request a space.

Theater in different stages

40 years is nothing is a theatrical proposal that evokes romance in an elderly couple. This hilarious comedy has no time, age or space. It happens where love is love. Martha Ontaneda and Marcelo Gálvez return to the stage together to star in this very uneven couple who are at the most opportune moment: both free, single and with a whole life ahead of them. Admission: $ 20. Reservations: 099-469-3323. 20:00, Casa Cino Fabiani (Numa Pompilio Llona street 196, Las Peñas neighborhood).

On Pop Up continues the season dedicated to works whose theme revolves around stories that will make the audience’s hair stand on end. The works from Wednesday to Saturday (from 7:30 p.m.) are the following:

Today I came for you. A kidnapper, a victim and an exorcism not to remove a spirit, but to bring it back. Actors: Liss Rezabala and Áxel Zoller. Director: Sebastián Perdomo.

Hunger. Trapped in a mine for weeks with nothing to eat or drink and with a ferocious beast nearby, two soldiers will try to survive and … feed. Actors Ricardo Velástegui and Sebastián Perdomo. Director: David Castro.

Who is who? Two murderers with multiple personalities try to escape from a mental hospital. Actors: Álex Loor and Steff Alarcón. Director: Ricardo Velástegui.

Santa y Zabell. A terrible fire in the circus destroys almost all its members. Some clowns are forced to learn and perform the acts of their deceased companions to keep the circus alive. Cast: Paula Lituma and Andy Suzuki. Direction: Luis Fernando García.

You can visit these rooms from Wednesday to Sunday, from 7:00 p.m., in central Urdesa. Entry: $ 6 each work. You can also review the agenda at www.popupteatro.com.

The group La Mueca presents Like a stone in the shoe, story of Wilfrido and Bárbara, who form a very happy marriage, but the mother-in-law does not love him until the day of his death and beyond. He is renouncing against her and she listens to him, but a big problem arises: he wants to get divorced, but the mother-in-law from beyond will come to help him. Verónica Muentes, Sandra Pareja and Alberto Castro star in this comedy, under the direction of Oswaldo Segura. Admission: $ 10. Performances on Fridays and Saturdays, 8:30 p.m., Teatro del Ángel Bálsamos 620 (between Las Monjas and Ficus) Urdesa. Tel .: 098-507-1094, 098-937-5593 and 238-0585.

Úrsula Strenge and Santiago San Miguel offer the latest performance of I stayed in the 80s. The story will transport the audience to 1987 to recreate the vicissitudes of Carlos Alfredo and Mayra Alejandra when they were 18 years old and a novel romance, but an event would change their lives forever. During a Latin rock concert at the Model Stadium in Guayaquil, he suffers a fall that leaves him in a coma. Since then she accompanies her faithful love every day, clinging to the hope that she will wake up, but when she finally does so 30 years later, nothing is what it seems. Direction: Fabo Doja. Admission: $ 20 (TicketShow). 19:30, in the Multiartes Room of the Centro de Arte Theater.

The tale of the hare tells the story of characters who reach their limits in search of power and redemption, for this they explore the theme of child trafficking in Latin American countries and use minimalism and crudeness as tools. It is through a doctor and his nurse, confronted like two soccer players, who listen to a game on the radio while they get involved in a conversation in which each one must face their demons. Direction: Sebastián Sánchez Amunátegui. Cast: Alejandro Fajardo, Itzel Cuevas, Pamela Sambrano, Alisson Mieles and Michelle Zamudio. Libretto: Arístides Vargas. Admission: $ 15. Functions: October 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30, 20:00, Paulsen Studio (Las Peñas neighborhood). Reservations at (04) 604-2597 and 099-407-6843.

Oswaldo Segura, David Reinoso and Francisco Pinoargotti have been doing their thing in The Endless, comedy full of monologues by these three seasoned, veteran actors, sugar daddys, tiktokeros, youtubers e instagramers. What happens when this trio of mature comedians has to rejuvenate in a world of millennials? Tickets: $ 15, $ 20 and $ 25 (TicketShow). October 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 and November 1, 8:30 p.m., main hall of the Centro de Arte Theater.