The Theatre Group at the University of Murcia has won the award for the best scenery in the International University Theatre Festival of Fez (FITUFF), for his work "The Knight of Olmedo".
The prestigious theatrical event was held between the 3rd to May 7th, 2013 its eighth year, and he participated groups China, Canada, Indonesia, Lebanon and Morocco among others.
The Grand Prize "Ben Cheikh Abdul Aziz Humaid Al Nuaimi" Festival was awarded ex aequo in "The estate University of Surabaya-Indonésie", for his work "Sutaliwa" and "Central Academy of Drama, Bejing, Cina" for "Peking opera ".
The jury prize went to University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, for the work "Chuchotements" while the award for staging was for the Institute of Fine Arts in Lebanon for "Les bonnes".
"El Caballero de Olmedo" one of the masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age, was sponsored by the State Society for Cultural Action in the project "La Barraca routes", which relocated topical in recent times those routes that, between 1932 and 1936, enabled many Spanish that had hardly had access to theater,
The play is directed by César Oliva Bernal and Fernando Vidal, who, according own words have tried to bring the viewer of 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