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The Theatre Group at the University of Murcia represent "The Knight of Olmedo" in the "Fez Festival of University Theatre", which celebrates its eighth edition from the 3rd to May 7th 2013.
Groups participate in the Festival of China, Canada, Indonesia, Lebanon and Morocco among others.
The work was sponsored by the State Society for Cultural Action, within the project "La Barraca routes", which relocated topical in recent times routes that, between 1932 and 1936, enabled many Spanish that had hardly been access to the theater, become familiar with works of Cervantes, Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina.
Precisely the play "The Knight of Olmedo" by Lope de Vega, was one that represented the Cabin at the time, and now, with the direction of Fernando Vidal and Cesar Oliva Bernal, staged the Theatre University of Murcia.
The Knight of Olmedo is one of the masterpieces of the theater of the Spanish Golden Age.
It is based on an old legend, who was known to the public by Lope de Vega.
It is a comedy that tells a story of love, jealousy and death.
Don Alonso is visiting Medina and falls for Dona Ines, thanks to Fabia, who plays matchmaker with Tello, the lover manages to win his love and even gets his hand.
However, ignore the bad omens and returning to Medina is killed in the woods.
Lope leads from comedy to tragedy in a great work.
Oliva Vidal and ensure that his attempt to bring the viewer version today, "the play by Lope de Vega as a live show, full of legend and yet full of meaning."
For this, your version uses puppets manipulated public view, that create a space of light and shadow that enable, in his opinion, "the best reception by the modern viewer."
Source: UMU
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