The performance, by Mireia Miracle, will take place on Saturday, October 11, starting at 6 p.m
Culture programs the play 'Presente' at the Cultural Center for children and families
Tickets are now on sale for 2 euros
Benidorm City Council's Department of Culture has scheduled a play for children and families for next October, which will take place in the Cultural Centre's Auditorium. The production is "Presente" (Present), by artist Mireia Miracle, winner of the 2017 Circaire Award, the 2018 Zirkólika Emerging Artist Award, and the nominations for Best Street Show and Best Clown Show for her debut work, "Rojo," for which she also received the "Recommended Show" seal of quality from Redescena.
The performance will take place on Saturday, October 11, starting at 6:00 p.m., as announced by the Councilor for Culture, Jaime Jesús Pérez, who invited Benidorm residents and visitors, especially those with children at home, to "come and enjoy this theatrical experience led by an artist whose work revolves around peace, humanity, and hope for a better world, three essential ideas in today's society."
Tickets to attend this performance as part of the audience are now on sale at www.vivaticket.es for 2 euros.
"Presente" is the third solo work in artist Mireia Miracle's trilogy, created almost entirely with recycled plastic bags, as a tribute to all the children around the world who live among the trash. The project stems from the pedagogy of
Moisés Mato's "El Baúl Mágico" (The Magic Trunk) goes one step further, transforming the process of childhood symbolic play into a theatrical proposal. This pedagogy is based on playing with objects and the ability to construct other fantastical realities through simple materials. In this case, with thousands of recycled plastic bags, thus immersed itself in the theme of waste and the reality of the existence of plastic islands.
In this production, the viewer is shown a clown-girl who lives on a plastic island. Every day she wakes up and sets out on her journey, collecting objects that can serve as a lifeline. One morning, she finds, among the trash, a huge box with a ribbon. It is a gift, a present. What she finds inside will forever change the way she sees things. Because what we call trash can be a treasure for other people.
Thus, "Present" is a profound reflection on our world and what we do with it, on the future of our children, on our present, which is the most precious gift we have.
