The event as been organised by the
Mare de Déu de Loreto Festival
Commission since 1996 with the
sponsorship of the City Council,
and this year, Saturday, July 28,
had the collaboration of CaixaBank
(Fundación La Caixa) and of the
Costa Blanca Tourist Board. This
original initiative received in 2002
the National Festival of Tourist
Interest award. This year the
location was changed, celebrated
in the avenue of Lepanto, where
steps were installed, estimated
attendance in a thousand people,
being the free and free entry.
As usual from the beginning,
in the prolegomena to the
representation, José Chulvi,
mayor of Xàbia, and Vicente
Gavilà,
president
of
the
organizing committee, presented
commemorative
plaques
to
schoolgirl Iris Cholbi Chrysostom
(selected after her brilliant result
in the Fogueres de Sant Joan
Tournament), which led the black
side, and Javier Gomis, delegate
in Alicante of AEPAE (Spanish
Association for the Prevention of
Bullying (AEPAE), Guest of Honor
this year, which did the same
with the side of the white ones
(At the entrances to the enclosure
stands were arranged to receive
donations for AEPAE).
Alice
in
Wonderland was
represented, updated to the
twenty-first century with the theme
of school bullying as a guiding
thread, in adaptation for living
theatrical chess written by Raquel
Violero and Hector Cruañes,
who also led the stage direction.
His libretto, approached with an
iron script that linked stagings,
dialogues, narration texts, dance,
indications of lighting, special
effects, public address and live
music (with the added difficulty
of the age of the extras), and
combining an original argument