Fair Tarrega theater manages to attract audiences to proposals … – La Vanguardia

Tarrega (Lleida), Sep 14 (EFE) .- Fair Theatre Tarrega (Fira Tarrega) ended today with low attendance figures coincide with the National Day of September 11, but has exceeded previous years in the remaining three games, and has managed to attract audiences to the most innovative.

Fira Tarrega still offers many free shows unlimited capacity, but increasingly draws audiences to the proposed limit viewers in unconventional spaces.

In this second section, the fair has sold between last Thursday and today has 7,500 locations and 5,000 tickets distributed among professionals and programmers who have come to the meeting, which has been an increase in employment figures by 9.3% over last year and an overall figure of 80.2%, according to today appointed manager Fira Tarrega, Oriol Martí.

One of the most acclaimed and have exhausted mounts localities have been included in the proposed Program to Support the Creation, a platform that facilitates the process of creating the works with innovative vocation.

This is the If “Fugit” Company Kamchàtka or “Contructivo” the Collado-Van Hoestenberghe Foundation.

However, the public has come to see also massively more conventional shows, like “table 2 “, the Catalan company Co.LABse, who has managed to gather 2,000 people in the Plaza Mayor, with a style of street theater that connects with Comediants, a company that had great success in this same show years ago.

Attendance figures for street performances unlimited capacity are difficult to determine, but the event organizers are convinced that this year has increased the number of visitors who came to Tarrega between Friday and Sunday because the campground has grown from 2,200 people camped last year to 3,103 this year.

Another positive, according to the manager of the fair, is the sale of tickets that doubled, rising from the 1,155 last year to 2,679 this edition.

Oriol Martí believed that this fact demonstrates the evolution that has lived this fair, which is attracting an audience “more demanding and more knowledgeable about the theater scene. “

It has been very pleased with the reception given to the boldest, the increase of the productions, the level of internationalization of Fira and link with the territory.

As for internationalization, the executive director, Pau Llacuna, recalled that of the 789 accredited vocational area, 184 were programmers or foreign producers, from places as diverse as South Korea, Japan and New Zealand.