Festival ‘ESteatro Farándula’: ‘El Niceto y La Leoncia’ by José Cedena, and ‘Las cenizas del Difunto’ by Stella Manaut.

The theatrical performances will take place from October 10 to 24 (Thursdays and Fridays), at 8:00 p.m., at the Centro Cultual Padre Manuel.

Estepona City Council reports that the Municipal Theatre Group ‘Farándula’, directed by Luque, has presented the first edition of the Theatre Festival ‘ESteatro Farándula’, to be held between 10 and 24 October (days 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24 October), at 20:00 pm, in the Auditorium of the Centro Cultural Padre Manuel.

This ambitious project includes seven plays and is born from the love of its components for the theater and their desire to offer the public a wide range of quality works of different genres, with titles such as ‘El Niceto y la Leoncia’, ‘Ay Carmela’ and ‘La Consulta’, among others. With this festival, the GMT ‘Farándula’, which has a history of more than 40 years on the stage, aims to offer, enjoy, share and consolidate the theater as an essential part of the cultural life of Estepona.

The opening of the theatrical event will take place on Friday, October 10, at 20:00 hours, with the play ‘Hora de Visita’ by the Valladolid author J.L. Alonso de Santos. Collaboration per day: 5 euros. Special collaboration for the 5 days: 20 euros.

The program is as follows:

– Day 10: ‘Hora de visita’ by J.L. Alonso de Santos.

– Day 16: ‘El Niceto y La Leoncia’ by José Cedena, and ‘Las cenizas del Difunto’ by Stella Manaut.

– Day 17: ‘¡Ay, Carmela!’ by José Sanchis Sinisterra.

– Day 23: ‘La Consulta’ by Ángel Camacho Cabrera, and ‘Figuras sin Paisaje’ by Jorge Márquez.

– Day 24: ‘Domingo Mañana’ by J.L. Alonso de Santos.

GMT ‘FARÁNDULA’. The Municipal Theater Group was created in 1983 and debuted in 1984 with the play ‘En la ardiente oscuridad’, by Buero Vallejo. Since then it has premiered almost a hundred titles of different theatrical genres.

Among the numerous prizes received, it is worth mentioning the one awarded in the XV Certamen de Campillos: best play and best female interpretation for Mª Victoria de Miguel, with ‘La gata sobre un tejado de zinc caliente’, a free version of the play based on the text by the playwright Tennessee Williams, whose interpretation she won in the XV Certamen de Campillos.

Tennessee Williams, whose interpretation also earned her the Best Play Award at the National Theater Contest ‘Villa de Pizarra 2014’.

In the XIII Certamen de Campillos, two of its components: Rafa Alijas and Mar Berlanga, were, likewise, recognized as best performers in the well-known play by Adolfo Marsillach ‘Yo me bajo en la próxima, ¿y usted?’. In 2011 two recognitions stand out: award for best male interpretation to Miguel López for his role in ‘Gaviotas subterráneas’ in the XI Certamen de Campillos and in the III Certamen de Teatro de Olvera. And that same year he received the ‘Torre Almenara 2011’ Award as Best Cultural Entity, granted by the 24 Hours Sports Foundation of Estepona.

In addition, the GMT ‘Farándula’ won in 2016 two awards at the XVI Certamen de Teatro ‘Isidro Carbonero Villa de Campillos’. The show ‘Mamás’, a comic play by Marc Egea in which two women tell their experience in the world of motherhood, won the award for best female performer for Mercedes Bazán and best set design.

Since 1998, GMT ‘Farándula’ has been directed by Jesús Luque.