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Ministry of Culture Announces the Winners of the XIV Emilio Aparicio Amateur Theater Festival<\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he Ministry of Culture announced the winners of the XIV Emilio Aparicio Amateur Theater Festival. The announcement took place in the Monina Sol\u00e1 Auditorium of the Narciso Gonz\u00e1lez Cultural Center in Villa Juana. The cash prizes that were awarded amounted to RD$300,000.00.<\/P> The winners in Children and Youth category were: in first place El Mago de Oz (The Wizard of Oz), presented by the Theater School of Fine Arts of Moca; in second place, Viejo mundo (Old World) by V\u00edvere Theater; and, in third place, El hombre que escondi\u00f3 el sol y la luna (The man who hid the Sun and the Moon), by the Puppet Theater of the School of Dramatic Arts.<\/P> Whereas in the Adult Theater category the winners were: the first place went to Shakespeare en Fuga (Shakespeare in Fligt), by the Tripod Theater Foundation; the second place was won by Droga (Drug), by the Amadeus Theater; and the third place went to H\u00e1gase la Mujer (Let there be Woman), by Sur Theater.<\/P> The first places were awarded RD$75,000, the second places RD$50,000 and the third places RD$25,000 pesos, respectively. The selection jury consisted of Elvis Polanco (actor and theater director), Husmel D\u00edaz (Cuban) and Librada Onel.<\/P> Basilio Nova, director of the festival, was pleased that the total number of people that attended the functions was five thousand people, that is, two hundred per function.<\/P> Ana Am\u00e9rica Aparicio was present during the event, as in previous functions. She was the daughter of the late Spanish exile who came to the country with his wife fleeing the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, dressed as a peasant, and who devoted themselves to doing theater in the country.<\/P> The curtain opened with “Escalera para Electra<\/STRONG>” (Stairway for Electra), a novel by renowned Dominican writer Aida Cartagena Portalat\u00edn which was adapted for the stage by Dominican actress Charlotte Carter, Director of the Traveling Theater. And it closed with “Shakespeare in Flight<\/STRONG>“, one of the winning pieces.<\/P> Among the groups participating in the festival, Nova named the following: Tripod Theater, Dalixdes Theater, Oto\u00f1o Theater School, UCATESIANO Theater, O & M Theater, UASD Theater (Valverde Mao), Children’s Theater, Mauricio Baez Foundation Theater, New Horizons Foundation Theater, Alpha Theatrical Ministry, Amadeus Theater, Salcedo Theater, La Recua Theater and Nectar Theater.<\/P> The agenda also included the participation of the following groups: Camale\u00f3n Theater, Iv\u00e1n Garc\u00eda Youth Theater School, Puppet Theater of the National School of Drama, Seven Group, Space Theater, Theater of the School of Fine Art (Moca), Sur Theater, Free Theater, and V\u00edveres Theater, among other groups.<\/P> The event featured 28 theater groups in the country. It took place between March 11 and March 28 at the Monina Sol\u00e1 Theater of the Narciso Gonz\u00e1lez Cultural Center, from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. Ministry of Culture Announces the Winners of the XIV Emilio Aparicio Amateur Theater FestivalSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic, 04\/02\/2014 The Ministry of Culture announced the winners of the XIV Emilio Aparicio Amateur Theater Festival. The announcement took place in the Monina Sol\u00e1 Auditorium of the Narciso Gonz\u00e1lez Cultural Center in Villa Juana. The cash prizes that … Continue reading “Ministry of Culture Announces the Winners of the XIV Emilio Aparicio Amateur Theater Festival”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 04\/02\/2014<\/P>
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The functions were scheduled Monday through Friday. The prices of the tickets were 25 and 50 pesos per person.
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