It will host local, national and international proposals

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife launches its theatrical programming with  La Salita, a newly inaugurated space for interpreting local, national and international performing arts. This new activity is chiefly focused on text-based theatre. Councillor for Cultural Affairs José Carlos Acha and Tenerife Auditorium’s Artistic Director José Luis Rivero announced the details on 2 October.

Mr Acha said, “Our new hall, La Salita, constitutes an area of freedom for interpreting performing arts. This singular space, formerly Castillo Hall, was already used as a site for artistic residencies, theatre workshops, and some shows. But now, thanks to the staff of the Auditorio de Tenerife, it will have its own regularly scheduled programming, with more events and a greater focus on the public”. The councillor added that “the Auditorium had projected this space for text-based theatre, and now we have taken that step”.

José Luis Rivero described this initiative as “part of the Auditorio de Tenerife’s vision of innovation and renewal”. In collaboration with local authorities, the revision concluded that “we needed to do something to create a space dedicated to text-based theatre. We saw a need for theatre that deals with real issues and acts as a mirror that is placed before society and reflects our reality”. The auditorium’s artistic director went on to say, “For this reason, we intend to use La Salita for political theatre, with contemporary interpretations and social commentary. The idea is to provide entertainment with transcendence, to make audiences feel they’ve experienced something when the curtain falls”.

In addition to providing entertainment for people of all ages, including families and children, La Salita will be used for activities such as artist residencies, training programmes, in-house productions, commissioned works, theatrical readings, drama-research workshops, and research works. These performances and activities constitute another step forward in the Auditorium's full-spectrum approach over the last two decades and its involvement throughout the value chain of live performances.

This initiative kicks off on the 11, 12 and 13 October at 7:3 p.m. with the Argentinian proposal Gaviota (Seagull), by Antón Chéjov, directed by Guillermo Cacace. In Gaviota, life is portrayed as the abandoned and worm-eaten stage of the play beside a lake, whose curtain waves in the wind like the sobbing of the defeated. Masha attempts to assemble the threads of this story of unrequited loves, dreams that shatter upon coming true, and pain that accumulates over the years.

Next week's programming will be dedicated entirely to upper-secondary schoolchildren, featuring Don Quixote. Walking Stories, a production by the Mexican theatre companies Teatro de la Rendija and Silkateatro Andante. This text-based work, written for an actress and a world of objects, is based on a selection of texts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote that have been adapted by Roberto Azcorra, Silvia Káter, and Raquel Araujo.

On 15 and 16 November, La Salita will offer “El vendedor de humo” (The Smoke Vendor), a one-person show directed and performed by Joan Font, the founder of the theatre company Comediants. The show reviews Mr Font’s personal life and career and marks the company’s 50 years of professional experience.

On 28 and 29 November, the Mexican theatrical troupe Los Colochos will perform their new show Tuta, based on the Shakespearean tragedy Titus Andronicus and interpreted in the setting of a Mexican prison. The staging of the troupe’s new adaptation provides a new and different context for the exploration of ideas such as territory, violence, cruelty, and vengeance.

In the coming weeks, the auditorium’s website will be updated with details on other shows and the artistic residencies comprising the basis for the regular programming of performing arts in La Salita.

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €8 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.