The performing arts program ’Estrénate’, produced by the Center for Cultural Initiatives of the University of Seville since 2012, will address in this edition the love and gender identity, as two major themes for the 2024 edition of this traditional encounter with the theater. It will be on October 3, 10, 17 and 24, at 8 p.m., in the CICUS Auditorium, at a cost of 5 euros per ticket.
Estrénate’ has the participation of emerging professional artists and groups from all over the country, selected from among 215 scenic proposals, endowed on this occasion with a high quality, according to the Selection Committee.
Thus, from the Valencian Community come A ti te duele todo lo bueno and La Lengua Incompleta . The first one stages the certainty that we would not experience love if death did not exist, and paradoxically, living without love is like not living. The second, a story that speaks of love, of our capacity or inability to love, of surrender, but also of resilience and the denial of defeat.
The month continues with two plays based on real events. Tilíndula. Memories of an Invisible Woman, starring an intersex woman born shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War who was forced to lock herself indoors at the age of twenty, since "demonesses" like her had no place beyond their caves. Remanso de Paz is a comedy based on real events that presents a present-day world without roots, which has lost its anchorage with the earth.
The month ends with the company Hilanderas Producciones , the necessary theater through the story of two exceptional lives, social differences and gender identity. Catalina y Elena is a theatrical research project on gender identity in the Baroque through the lives of Catalina de Erauso, better known as "La monja alférez", and Eleno de Céspedes -born Elena de Céspedes-.
Some of the evaluation criteria used to select the proposals were the promotion of new proposals, facilitating the premiere of works that, due to the novelty of their proposal or their components, do not have previous facilities for their inclusion in other programs in the region. The most emerging proposals and those that seek to socialize artistic creation, as well as the participation or integration of members of the university community of the University of Seville or recent graduates, have also been valued. Those interested can get their tickets at the box office or on the CICUS website.
