On Sunday, Oct. 31 (20:30 pm) amateur theater group "Tejuba" Las Torres de Cotillas honor the poet Miguel Hernandez in Orihuela Casa de la Cultura "Pedro Serna" in the municipality.
To mark the centenary of the birth of the great author, this free admission event organized in collaboration with the Culture Department of the municipality will have a recital of poems by Hernández.
A reading will be borne by the younger members of the group, which will Torreño the looks innocent and imaginative, "that this work will be accompanied by their adult partners.
The theater group Tejuba ", born in Las Torres de Cotillas in 1967, was founded by John Bath and has toured all municipalities in the Region of Murcia, and other neighboring communities such as Almeria, Albacete and Alicante.
His repertoire can be found skits, interludes, classical theater and contemporary theater and mystery plays.
This group consists of performers Torreño fans has never stopped producing theater in an activity that unites more than 40 people with ages ranging from one year to the seventies, and which has a large pool of actors to ensure the continuity of this group.
Hundred years
Miguel Hernández was born in Orihuela, Alicante in 1910.
The son of peasants, played among other trades, the pastor of goats.
Guided by his friend Ramon Sijé, started in poetry since the age of twenty.
He published his first book, "Perito en lunas" in 1933 and subsequently, the sonnets grouped under "The lightning that never stops," marked the poet's love experience.
During the Civil War he campaigned very actively on the Republican side as Commissioner for Culture, was imprisoned and sentenced to death to end the conflict.
Before he died in 1942, sick and detained, he published his latest book, "Song and Ballad of absences."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas