The tenth edition of International contemporary theater festival DramaFest 2023 will open on Friday November 10 at theater El Galeón with the world premiere of the chamber musical work sunk costs, which addresses the sexual and ethnic identity, original of Mexican playwright Eduardo Castañeda, directed by Canadian Brendan Healy.

He festival, which takes place every two years and in this edition it will last one month in scenarios from Mexico and Chihuahua, will have Canada as a guest country and will present pieces created especially for this meeting, organized by teacher Raquel Araujo, as well as artistic directorreported at a conference on writer Nicolas Alvarado, general director of DramaFest 2023.

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Alvarado expressed nervousness about the responsibility of continuing this work. “With the pandemic, theater was temporarily weakened, but it also liberated it and allowed us to see that there were other forms of performance that did not necessarily involve in-person events. And now you see the theaters If it’s not full, yes, with many spectators. During these 19 years that we have done Theater Festival I believe that the Mexican theater scene has developed a lot and that Mexican dramaturgy has enriched itself, theater texts And Theater Festival “urged playwrights to create their stories.”

The programming continues with sexual movements middle class by Hannah Moscovitch, directed by Valeria Fabbri, addresses the relationship between Jon, a university professor and his 19-year-old student; will be presented on November 15 theater El Granero, and December 10 at City Theater in Chihuahua.

There artistic director announced the works that will be presented under the Urban Bubbles concept: The Barbed Wire of the writer Annick Lefebvre, directed by Chihuahua native Luis Bizarro, who also writes and directs The one who fell from a tree one night; the monologue Deer womanof the playwright Tara Beagan directed by Perla de la Rosa, who also directs let me be your eyes of the Mexican artist Véronique Bujeiro. The four pieces will be presented on December 2 and 3 on the esplanade of the University Cultural Center and on December 9 and 10 in Chihuahua.

In the field of International Productions, it is presented Be sick by Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchell, based on the three years she spent doing field work on the environment and climate change; on December 1 in Mexico City and at the Teatro de la Ciudad de Chihuahua on December 5. Logic of the worst Étienne Lepage and Frédérick Gravel will be on stage on December 3 in the capital and December 6 and 7 in Chihuahua.

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THE dramatized readings of the Weaving Voices cycle will be presented at Hellenic Cultural Center, from November 20 to 24. These are: two girlsby Valéria Loera; Corrected on the crest of a waveby David Yee; The procession of the holy cross of the cavesby Mabel Garza and This I show we got thereby Keith Barker.

Also present at the conference table was Graeme C. Clark, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico, who said: “Mexico and Canada know each other through their economic and commercial exchanges. But it is necessary to know each other culturally, also exchanging the performing art which only has the language to be appreciated and appreciated.

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