National Theatre Competition for groups in the framework of University Programmes for Seniors

Start: 12/01/2010

End: 14/01/2010

Timezone: Europe/Madrid

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The Permanent University of the University of Alicante organizes, within the framework of commemoretive activities of the 10th anniversary, the First National Theatre Competition for groups in the framework of University Programmes for Seniors, which will take place on January 12 to 14, 2010, in the Paraninfo of the University of Alicante. Since this festival counts with a series of interesting plays, we would like to invite you to this event. Admission is free and in the following table you can find the different plays with the corresponding times and synopsis.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 20:15 h. PARANINFO Duration: 80 minutes Spanish	ADAMUC Comedians. Senior Student Association. Complutense University. MADRID *Always in autumn* Comedy Author: Santiago Moncada Direction: Mercedes Menéndez	This is the life of three sisters with very different characters, three persons who have gone different ways. Three women who come together again, since, in the autumn of their lives, they have made decisions which will change their exisstence in the future completely.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12 :15 h. PARANINFO Duration: 60 minutes Spanish	Theatre group of the Permanent University MILLÁN SANTOS, University of VALLADOLID *Famous short plays* Short play. Author: Luís Quiñones de Benevente Direction: José María Echuri and Matilde Esteban	*“The Mariones”, “The living dead persons”, “The marvelous altarpiece”* are short comical plays. Women with strong character, weak men, jealous brothers, lovers, mayors and credulous sacristans represent an amusing gallery of characters and situations.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 20:15 h. PARANINFO Duration: 80 minutes Spanish	ARS Theatre group. University of MURCIA *A return husband* Comedy Author: Enrique Jardiel Poncela Direction: Manolo Ortín	The fidelity and infidelity, promises and marriage, one of Jardiel Poncela's favourite topics, are concentrated in a play that is defined by a series of tangles, meetings and failed meetings, entertaining phantoms and situations.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:15 h. PARANINFO Duration: 60 minutes Spanish	Ponferrada Campus Theatre of Teatro Campus of the University of LEÓN *The wake* Tragicomedy. Author: Valle Inclán (rewritten and adapted by Manuel Cuenya) Direction: Manuel Cuenya	A dead woman tells us her own story of suffering, in which she had to support the troubles of life, with a drunk husband, who is a womanizer and player, and gossiping and ghoulish neighbours.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 20:15 h. Duration: 60 minutes Spanish	Theatre of the Permanent University of the University of ALICANTE *You have eyes of a fatal womanl* Comedy Author: Enrique Jardiel Poncela Direction: Pascual Carbonell	You have eyes of a fatal woman recreates the famous Don Juan myth from an ironic, humourous perspective, which characterizes a big part of Jardiel's dramatic play.

If you are interested in attending the competition (any of the plays or all of them), you will have to request the reservation of invitations in the UA Culture Secretary, by tel. 965903725 or fax 965909649 or e-mail: ofi.cultura@ua.es [1], indicating the number of persons who will attend, the address of the centre and the person responsible for the group. The applications will be dealt with according to the order of arrival.