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The University of Murcia presented on Thursday the III Conference on the Spanish University Theater, led by César Oliva, professor emeritus of the UMU, and Javier Huerta, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.
The meeting is being held on October 24, 25 and 26 in the auditorium of the Rector Sabater building.
The conference is contextualized within the framework of a research project funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities on the so-called TEUs, university theater groups scattered throughout Spain that reached their peak between the 40s and 60s. In a marked context Because of the ravages of war, with many dramatists, directors and exiled actors, the TEUs supposed a ball of oxygen for the Spanish scene.
As explained by Javier Huerta, these were the only schools where some of the best post-war actors could be trained, such as María Jesús Valdés, Valeriano Andrés, Nati Mistral or José Luis López Vazquez, among others.
Throughout the three days of the meeting, some of the key figures linked to the TEUs will be studied: directors such as Luis González Robles;
playwrights such as Julián Ayesta, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Lauro Olmo, Faustino González Aller or Agustín Embuena;
or actresses like Maite Blasco or Carmen Maura.
The repertoire and characteristics of some of the main TEUs in Spain will also be explored, with special attention to those born in the University of Murcia in 1935.
During the ceremony, the new director of the theater classroom of the UMU, Nieves Pérez Abad, has expressed that it is an honor to reopen the classroom activity with these days in an attempt to add to the program of cultural activities the didactic and research dimension of the institution.
Pérez Abad has also stressed that, in this new stage, the theater of the UMU has the intention of recovering activities such as the University Theater Festival and the assembly of annual theatrical productions that can go on tour within the university environment, both national as an international.
In addition, other such as the theatrical training workshop that, in its first week of operation, has achieved more than 80 entries.
For his part, Paco Caballero, coordinator of the Culture Service, said that one of the main objectives pursued in this new stage is to satisfy more intensely the cultural needs of the university public, making them feel cared for, not only for to be a spectator, but to participate directly in workshops, courses, plays, exhibitions, etc.
Francisco Javier Martínez, Vice Chancellor of Quality, Culture and Communication of the UMU, congratulated the organizers of the conference for their research in the field of Humanities and pointed out that, in a commitment to revalue the cultural activity of the university, the next year the budget item allocated to these disciplines will increase by 30%.
To finalize the act, both the vice-chancellor and the director of the theater classroom have dedicated a few words to the memory of José Antonio Aliaga, director of the El Matadero Theater, which throughout his life was closely linked to the activity of the university theater in Murcia.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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