11/05/2010
Vitoria- Gasteiz, 11th May 2010.- The central nave of the Santa Maria Cathedral will be the setting on 20th and 21st May of the ´Becket o el honor de Diós´( Becket or God´s honor) performance, a dramatic piece in charge of recover the sacred theater. The Ortzai Dramatic Art Laboratory with the collaboration of the Agency for the Integral Revitalization of the Historical City of Vitoria- Gasteiz will offer us this work of Jean Anouilh, one of the best authors of the european theater.The tickets will be available tomorrow in the Cathedral´s Store ( Las Escuelas St. , 11) for 3€, and 1€ for the members of the Founders´Circle of the Santa Maria Cathedral.Directed by Iker Ortiz de Zárate, will be leaded by himself and Javier Martínez, playing the parts of Becket and the King Henry. Another actors of this playing are Teresa Ibañez ( Mother Queen), Saioa Medrano ( Eleonor Queen), Eduardo Suso ( Bishop of London), Patricia López Arnaiz ( Gwendoline), Mirena Nafarrate ( the wood´s young lady), Sara Kiteber ( Marie) and Mariano Álvarez ( Brother John)...´Becket o el honor de Dios´ relates the life of St. Thomas Becket, England´s chancellor and close friend of the King Henry. The author of this play, Jean Anouilh, son of basque- french parents who lived in Paris, is one of the best european and french theater authors. He wrote his first play on 1929, and on 1987 he obtained his first success with ¨El viajero sin equipaje´ ( The traveller without luggage). His most successful play has been ´Antigona´ was written in 1942. Anouilh wrote ´Becket o el honor de Dios´ in 1959 and the text had a inmediate success on the stages. This play also became a film by Peter Glenville and with the auctors Peter O´Toole and Richrad Burton as The King Henry and Thomas Becket.The director of the Ortzai Dramatic Art Laboratory, Iker Ortiz de Zarate, develops this project after doing a theoretical study of this play in the University of Kent.