Fira Tarrega succeeds in attracting audiences to the proposals … – La Vanguardia

Rosa Diaz

Tarrega (Lleida), Sep 14 (EFE) .- Some of the most innovative productions were the most applauded in Fira Tarrega edition has now been completed and started last Thursday with a casualty figures by the coincidence with Dyad assistance, but has surpassed previous years in the remaining three days.

Fira Tarrega still offers many free shows unlimited capacity, but increasingly attracts more public proposals to limit spectators in unconventional spaces.

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

Some of the most acclaimed productions and have exhausted the localities have been proposals in the Programme for the Support of Creation, a platform that facilitates the process of creating the works with innovative vocation.

This is the case of “Fugit” the Kamchàtka or “Contructivo” company of Collado-Van Hoestenberghe Foundation.

However, the public has also massively more conventional come to see shows like “Table for 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 fair 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 ticket advance that has doubled and has gone from 1,155 last year to 2,679 this edition.

Oriol Martí believed that this fact demonstrates the evolution that has experienced this fair, which attracts an increasingly public “more demanding and more knowledgeable about the theater scene.”

However, viewers seeking a more festive and family offer have had this year with two new sections, Ondara Park and Urban Nation, that ” have had large crowds and next year will be strengthened, “the artistic director Jordi Duran.

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

As for internationalization, the executive director, Pau Llacuna, recalled that the 789 area of ​​professional accreditations, 184 have been developers or foreign producers from places as diverse as South Korea, Japan and New Zealand.

The organizers stressed that Fira Tarrega has developed “normally and without incident,” according to Oriol Martí and only it has been marred by the rain that fell this afternoon and forced to suspend two representations.

Among the 81 performances that were seen in Tarrega include, in addition to the above ” Fugit “and” Constructive “,” Chicken Legz “a circus company that Fira Tarrega Religion Animal presented in a riding just a few kilometers from the town.