A thousand people attend the XXII Living Chess from Xàbia based on bullying
El XXII AJEDREZ VIVIENTE DE XÀBIA It took place last Saturday with the novelty of a new scenario. The Lepanto Avenue hosted the game board together with the presence of nearly a thousand people as public and more than a hundred participants among the musicians and actors.
At the beginning of the event, the mayor of Xàbia, José Chulvi and the president of the Mare de Déu de Loreto Festival Committee, Vicente Gavilà, organizer of the event, delivered a commemorative plaque to the Iris Cholbi school, selected after his brilliant result in the Tournament Fogueres de Sant Joan and that led the black side and Javier Gomis, delegate in Alicante of AEPAE (Spanish Association for the Prevention of Bullying (AEPAE), guest of Honor this year, who took care of the white pieces .
The show Our Alicia, based on the story of Alice in Wonderland but in an updated version written by Raquel Violero and Hector Cruañes, with the theme of school bullying as a common thread, surprised the audience with its staging and the message that transfer.
Argument of the work
The script narrated real situations, that day by day, children live in their environment. The work started with the appearance of Alicia, a happy girl who read and imagined stories with her parents, but when she got older she lost interest in reading, avoiding relationships with her parents. He tried to fit into the institute where he witnesses a situation of bullying to one of his classmates. Then, the world of wonders opened before her to distort reality.
Alicia arrived at a square, where the stalker of her class, turned into the Red Queen, dictates how she has to dress people and even behave in the world of wonders, having everyone to be dressed in red like her. The Red Queen invites Alicia to her palace and, when she appears dressed in blue-a color she has never worn-is teased, so the Queen's assistants changed Alice's clothes to fit her world stripping her of her personality.
The performance ended with a battle between the two sides: the white, which represented freedom and truth, and the red, which embodied the terror of the Red Queen. Finally, the white pieces won and managed to bring peace to the world of wonders ... and to Alicia herself.
The XXII edition of Living Chess captivated everyone one more year. Notably, the Loreto Festival Commission organizes this event from 1996 with the sponsorship of the City Council, and this year it had the collaboration of CaixaBank (La Caixa Foundation) and the Costa Blanca Tourist Board. In addition, this act received in 2002 the award of Fiesta of National Tourist Interest.
The general coordination was in charge of José Erades and the direction by Rafael Andarias Esteuan, director of Living Chess. The Xàbia Symphony Orchestra also participated under the baton of Joan Bou, who composed an ex-professed score for the work, the Salomé Rodríguez Dance Studio and the Xàbia Jove Theater Workshop conducted by Inma Sancho. The presenter was Irene Wittwer and the narrators, Loli Quesada and Laura Giuliano.
