Merida, April 17 (EFE).- The Merida Greek Youth Theater Festival recovers its pulse after the pandemic with the celebration, this week, of its silver wedding anniversary and with the participation of more than 14,000 students from 190 educational centers in Spain, Holland and Portugall.
Until next time you come, the contest organized by the Institute of Secondary Education “Santa Eulalia” of the capital of Extremadura will celebrate its XV edition, a period in which it has received more than 250,000 students.
Seven functions will be represented in the Roman theatre de Mérida by theater groups from secondary schools in Extremadura, the Valencian Community, Galicia and Murcia.
opening act
During the opening ceremony, the Minister of Culture, Nuria Floreshas stressed that the festival will be held again after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic to continue materializing a project with which “Extremadura and Mérida claim classical culture”.
In this same sense, the Mayor of Mérida, Antonio Rodríguez Osunafor whom it is a very special edition “because it is the first festival to be held since 2019 and because it celebrates its silver anniversary fully consolidated as a cultural reference in Spain.”
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The mayor has also highlighted that the best work of this edition, which will be chosen by an evaluation commission, will be included in the poster of the Merida International Classical Theater Festival for its representation this summer, which in his opinion is an “extraordinary leap” for this contest.
The director of the IES Santa Eulalia, Felipe Gómez, for his part, has indicated that he wants to “set an example that we do a great job” and has highlighted the breadth of the territorial scope that the contest covers, since Andalusia and Castilla y León , a regular public, will be joined by students from the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia and Cantabria, as well as young people from Portugal and the Netherlands.
The inaugural show, “Las supplicantes”, has been carried out this Monday by the theater workshop of the host institute, which has given way to the play ‘Ajax’, by Sophocles, staged by the Balbo Theater group from El Puerto de Santa María