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Teatro Circo recovery for the city is in its final stretch.
At the moment, has already executed more than 70% of the project, as explained by the architect Vicente Pérez Albacete-charge of rehabilitation, the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, this morning visited the works, accompanied by officials of Urban and Culture, and Fatima Fernando Berberena Barnuevo and technical advisor for the scenic areas, César Oliva.
The intervention, which has a budget of close to 9 million euros, will reopen the building become Experimental / Alternative Center for the Performing Arts.
The work performed and correspond to the more cumbersome and complex works such as masonry work, foundation, excavation, structure, platform stalls, stage and other facilities, including the air conditioning.
From now remains is to finish and decoration and stage equipment.
The rehabilitation project has complied with the conservation of the building structure in its integrity and value, the extension of the stage, and the creation of a basement area to locate dressing rooms, storage rooms and a rehearsal room.
During the visit this morning, the Mayor expressed his satisfaction at the pace that carry the Works, which will allow Murcia count in 2011 in the heart of the city and retrieve important singular space is destined to become a reference for performing arts.
From local theater to multi-purpose cultural space
The rehabilitation work started from a local cinema, following the intervention, will be transformed into a space theater.
Pérez Albacete architect explained that the project involved the creation of a basement addition to placing a small room which can be used to heating, have created dressing rooms, storage rooms and dressing rooms.
In both sides of the first floor there are four dressing rooms for the first figure and the amphitheater are enabled meeting rooms and offices.
This has the facilities and amenities of a modern theater, in this case type "Elizabethan", in which every stage is the public.
One of the characteristics that define the future Teatro Circo is mobility, which is achieved through the installation of two mobile platforms.
One, the largest, occupies the entire pit, and another smaller, the orchestra pit, is located between the stage and the stalls.
The various games that are both able to offer a very wide variety of shows, both theater and dance and other performing arts.
The larger platform can be placed in a horizontal or inclined plane, while the orchestra has four levels: above scenario, inclined stalls, orchestra pit or the lowest stage of the basement room.
The reform will allow the new building is fully prepared to host a variety of performances by the installation of unique scenic elements, including:
- Scenario turned to the stalls, with perfect view from any of its three plants.
- The front of the stage area will be coordinated with a hydraulic mechanism which renders the scenery from the pit
- System mobile racks that will allow gauging the stage of many different modes
- Small loom in the background, 2.70 meters deep, which will both close on black background to use a projection screen
- Hollow subdivision between the hydraulics, dressing area, storage and rehearsal.
It will be a multipurpose space where they can live entertainment alternative theater house production of Murcia, children's theater, dance, etc.
Closed 40 years
The rehabilitation has allowed the recovery of a property that was in obvious state of disrepair since it was closed in the 70's.
Teatro Circo, which opened on November 5, 1892, was designed and built by Justo Millán along the lines of the famous "theater-circus" that, from Paris, spread through many European cities.
Millan also responsible for the final restoration of the Teatro Romea after a fire in 1899, was also author of the Plaza de Toros, the Provincial Hospital, the College of St. Joseph church vocations or the cover of San Bartolomé.
Teatro Circo Villar-acquired the name of its owner, Enrique Villar, suffered several modifications over the years.
For use as a theater and a circus, it should be added that of boxing events, wrestling, horse shows, movies, etc..
Since 1908, enabled film, depending on which survived, combined with other entertainment-up to the seventies, when it closed permanently.
The new Teatro Circo have a capacity of 694 -290 sites in the stalls, 90 stalls, 120 in the first amphitheater and 194 in the second-, which will add another 117 in the rehearsal room that will enable in the basement.
The Romea Theatre has a capacity for 1,100 spectators and Bernal Theatre opened in 1910 and restored in 2003 - has 300 locations.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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