Teatro circo de marte la palma

Auditorium of tenerife

The Circo de Marte Theater is the result of the transformation suffered by the building, which had been conceived to be dedicated basically to cockfights, whose primitive construction presented a Frenchified architectural typology of the end of the last century, also inheriting its name of “Circus”.

The building we can see today is the result of building around the perimeter of the previous building, masking and incorporating the primitive prismatic volume of the circus into the new building.

The transformation of the building for the new scenic use consisted in the erection of a perimeter wall that tried to achieve a parallelepiped volume as the image of the new theater and that would serve as support for the horizontal structures. Thus, the partial result was to consist of the use of the interior space of the circus as the volume of the auditorium and the creation of a ring around it that contained all the services and dependencies of the new use for which the building was intended.

Small theater

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The Teatro Circo de Marte, located in the capital municipality of Santa Cruz de La Palma, is the result of the transformation suffered by the building, which had been designed to be dedicated basically to cockfighting, whose original construction had a Frenchified architectural typology of the end of last century, also inheriting its name of “Circus”. The building that we can contemplate today is the result of building perimetrically with respect to the previous building masking and incorporating the primitive prismatic volume of the circus to the new building. The transformation of the building for the new scenic use consisted in the erection of a perimeter wall that tried to achieve a parallelepiped volume as the image of the new theater and that would serve as support for the horizontal structures. Thus, the partial result was to consist of the use of the interior space of the circus as the volume of the auditorium and the creation of a ring around it that contained all the services and dependencies of the new use for which the building was intended.

Where the palm remains

The play, which will be performed on September 10, 11 and 12 by the group Sastrería Teatro, tells the story of the tailor Félix García Durán, who was imprisoned during the Civil War for belonging to the socialist party.

Jovita Monterrey explained that the staging of this play is part of the La Palma Escuela de Cultura program with which the Cabildo “aims to provide the island’s artists and agents with tools to professionalize and promote the growth of a cultural industry on the island through continuous training”.

The author of the play and professor at the Municipal Theater School, Carlos De León, also present at the event, pointed out that “this is not the first production that this team has done, but it is the first one under the name of La Sastrería Teatro”. In addition, Carlos De León and his team hope that this show will not remain only in the three performances scheduled for this weekend, but that “we can move it all over the islands”.

La historia del sastre’ tells the story of the tailor Félix García Durán, who was imprisoned in La Palma during the outbreak of the Civil War for belonging to the board of the socialist party on the island.

City council of santa cruz de la palma

The Councilwoman of Culture of Santa Cruz de La Palma, Virginia Espinosa, considers that this qualification “endorses the good work being done in the main stage of the island, both in programming and management as well as in operation”. The councilwoman congratulates all the municipal staff involved in the daily activity of the Circo de Marte, including technical team, hall staff and team of the Culture area.

The Teatro Circo de Marte of Santa Cruz de La Palma hosted the Solemn Plenary Session of the Cabildo de La Palma in which the neurologist and former president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Fernández, was awarded the title of Favorite Son of the Island. The president of the island, Mariano Zapata, highlighted the contribution that Fernandez has made to the Canary Island Health, being one of the founders of the Hospital…

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