Mahon
Updated:06/06/2022 10:30 p.m.
Save
‘Where the sea creates you’, has been the motto of the gala of the XXV edition of the Max awards, which has traveled this year to Mahón, on the Balearic island of Menorca, and to its beautiful Teatro Principal. Last night García Lorca’s moon appeared in this protagonist Mediterranean Sea, through ‘a moonless night‘, which won the award for best theater show and best male performance (for Juan Diego Botto); she could not be at the gala, but she left a message – read by Sergio Peris Mencheta, director of the function – with her expected mentions to historical memory and the extreme right. But it was a pale reflection of his, because the rosary of awards traveled to all the cardinal points of the Spanish geography: Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Madrid, the Basque Country…
(although the Catalan language was heard a lot at the gala); and, like the Christmas lottery, they were widely distributed: more than a dozen shows won one of the twenty prizes awarded and only four, the aforementioned ‘Una noche sin luna’ (2), ‘beast dance‘ (2), ‘CreAcción‘ (2) y ‘I sing and the mountain dances‘ (3) achieved more than one statuette.
Nostalgia and memory opened the ceremony, directed by Mar Aguiló y Josep-Pere Peyró, and presented by Clara Ingold and Josep Orfila (in a perennial fight with the envelopes containing the names of the winners). A video reviewed some moments of the twenty-five years of the awards, organized by the SGAE and which, despite their imperfections, have established themselves as the most outstanding of the performing arts in Spain. Pigeon Stone y Jose Luis Alonso de Santos they were the only two who arrived at the gala knowing that they would take a Max. The first, of a social nature, granted to his company Caídos del Cielo, which wants to make theater an instrument of inclusion; and the second, highly applauded and ingenious, author of titles such as ‘Get off the Moor’ or ‘La Estanquera de Vallecas’, Max Honor Award.
There was also room for the vindication of the performing arts, for example in the speech of John Joseph Solanapresident of the SGAE Foundation (with applause for the Ukrainian people and creators), or in the words sent in an audio message by Antonio Banderaswhich won the Max for best lyrical or musical show with ‘Company’ – a musical produced, directed and starring him.
Among the rest of the winners of some awards, Jesús Carmona, Lucía Lacarra, Mónica López, Guillem Albà, Joan Arqué, Nicolás Fischtel, Ana Garay, Alfred Casas, Laura Clos, Judit Neddermann, Iratxe Ansa, Igor Bacovich, Julio Manrique , Marc Artigau, Sergi Pompermayer, Sandra Ferrús and María Velasco.f
best theater show
‘A night without a moon’, by La Rota Producciones; Shell Bust Production and Distribution; and pirate ship
best dance show
‘Dance of beasts’, by the Jesús Carmona Dance Company
Best musical or lyrical show
‘Company’, by Teatro del Soho Caixabank
best street show
‘Alter’, by Compañía Kamchatka
Best show for children, youth or family audiences
‘Cris, Little Brave’, by El Espejo Negro and Teatro del Soho Caixabank
Best Breakthrough Show
‘Woman on a treadmill on a black background’, by Alessandra García
Best playwright
Joan Yago, afraid ‘What are we talking about while we’re not talking about all this shit’
Juan Diego Botto, for ‘A night without the moon’
María Velasco González, for ‘I cut down the men on the face of the earth’
Best Breakthrough Authorship
Sandra Ferrús, for ‘La panadera’
Best adaptation or version of a play
Julio Manrique, Marc Artigau and Sergi Pompermayer, for ‘Carrer Robadors’
Best Musical Composition for Stage Show
Judit Neddermann, for ‘I sing and the mountain dances’
best choreography
Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, for ‘CreAcción’
best production work
Unahoramenos Productions, for ‘Moria’
best stage direction
Guillem Albà and Joan Arqué, for ‘Canto jo i la muntanya balla’
Best Stage Space Design
Alfred Casas and Laura Clos ‘Closca’, for ‘Canto jo i la muntanya balla’
Best Costume Design
Ana Garay, for ‘Rebellion’
best lighting design
Nicolás Fischtel, for ‘CreAcción’
Best actress
Mònica López, afraid ‘What are we talking about while we don’t talk about all this shit’
best Actor
Juan Diego Botto, for ‘A night without the moon’
Best Female Dance Performer
Lucía Lacarra, por ‘In the still of the night’
Best Male Dance Performer
Jesús Carmona, for ‘Dance of beasts’
Max social award
Skyfall Company
Max Honor Award
Jose Luis Alonso de Santos
See them
comments