University Theater Showcase

 Saturday, February 18 / Sunday, February 19
 5€

A selection of plays resulting from the Theater Training Program will be presented at the MUN theater. Accompanied by Liuba Cid during the course, students will stage a wide variety of short plays that they have had to devise for this University Theater Showcase. The audience will see how the group has managed to turn a challenge into a virtue.

The University Theater Festival features theater groups from the University, who work throughout the academic year under the guidance of Liuba Cid.

WORKS

  Saturday, February 18 / 7:30 p.m.
 85 minutes
A Round-Trip Husband, by Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Address: Vicente Martínez
Attached to the address: Jorge Valeiras
Theater group: Silent as the grave

Synopsis:

While preparing for a costume party, Pepe suddenly dies of a heart attack. Before he dies, he makes his friend Paco Yepes promise that he will not marry his wife, Leticia, when he dies. However, Paco breaks his promise and ends up marrying her. Two years after Pepe's death, a series of strange events begin to occur in the newlyweds' home.

Cast:

Leticia: Maite Serna
Pepe: Miguel Janer
Paco Yepes: Álvaro Chiva
Elías: Germán Beltramo
Gracia: Ana Rábade
Díaz: Rafael Pérez
Amelia: María Martínez
Cristina: Inés Castresana
Sergio: Elías Alegría
Aunt Etelvina: Covadonga Suárez
Dr. Ansúrez: Juan Emilio Garrido
Damiana: Leyre Pueyo
Felisa: Beatriz Sainz de Varanda
Ignacio: Juan Miguel Botía
Makeup: Martina Ducay
Hair: Isa Adalid
Curtain Design: Javier Serrano

  Sunday, February 19 / 12 noon
 90 minutes
The stranded mermaid, by Alejandro Casona
Director: Maite Serna
Attached to the address: Inés Castresana
Theater group: Silent as the grave

Synopsis:

A group of characters seek to escape a disappointing and painful reality by creating their own refuge: a place where they can invent a new life, free from reasoning and discipline, obeying only the power of their imagination. A ghost who wants to be a gardener but finds out he is dead and is Napoleon; a mermaid who comes out of the sea in search of her beloved; an imaginary tree that always gets in the way; or a blindfolded painter are some of the characters in this unreal world. But when love gets in the way, everything will begin to change, because when we love someone, we want to know the truth and not live on dreams.

Cast:
Sirena: Ana Gabarró
Ricardo: Asier Aldea
Don Florín: Pedro De Arberas
Pedrote: Iago Arregui
Fantasma: Vicente Martínez
Samy: Jorge Cristobal Nieto
Daniel: Alba Azpilicueta
Pipo: Erick Rafael Molina

LIUBA CID

Academician of the Performing Arts of Spain and Doctorcum laudein Arts and Humanities from Rey Juan Carlos University. This teacher and researcher in visual and performing arts is also a professor of arts theory at URJC. Prolific in her knowledge and work, she is the director of the Ibero-American company Mephisto Teatro and collaborates with the museum in training the university's theater groups.