Salamanca June (EFE).- Tonight a giant whale opens the Castilla y León International Arts Festival (FÀCYL 2023) through the streets of Salamanca with the recreation of Moby Dick “The Whale Street”, as the portico of this cultural event which will run until June 18.
The street theater show will begin at 10 pm in the historic Plaza Mayor, by the French company Productions Polymorphes & Populaires-CPPP.
In The Whale Street, Captain Ahab embarks on an urban odyssey in search of the legendary cetacean. Drifting through the city streets, her obsessive search for him and his desire for revenge seem to lead to her downfall. As the end of its journey nears, the beast awakens.
In this show, the CPPP company adapts Herman Melville’s classic to the scale of a city. The different adventures of the story are staged to the rhythm of live music, narrated by circus artists and with performances by dancers.
The theater company from the south of France metamorphoses everyday life and public space during this show to offer audiences an enchanted vision of the ordinary.
Fácyl returns after doubts about its continuity
The Castilla y León International Arts Festival returns this June after not being held in 2022 after Vox took over the management of the Ministry of Culture and criticized the suitability of this event.
The cultural event will take place until June 18 in Salamanca, which is its usual venue, with new technologies as the common thread and the largest budget of a festival owned by the Junta de Castilla y León (410,000 euros).
During these five days it will offer forty-eight concerts and shows in seventeen venues where more than one hundred artists belonging to forty companies will perform: eighteen from Castilla y León, twelve nationals and ten internationals from Canada, France, Italy, Belgium or Venezuela.
The central idea of the festival is to apply new technologies to avant-garde creation without forgetting the classical arts, through street, circus, music and dance performances. EFE