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News from Around Banderas Bay | July 2005
New Theater Company Comes to Puerto Vallarta PVNN - Ambito
| Puerto Vallarta welcomes a new theater company, Pen and Ink, which will stage important plays in both Spanish and English at the Cecatur auditorium as well as teach design, history of theater, and theater management to interested individuals. | Puerto Vallarta - A new theater company, Pen and Ink, directed by Kerrie M. Sebryk, M.A., her husband, and Sergio Garcilazo Ruiz has come to town. Aiming to raising the community's interest in theater and to offer the people of Vallarta the opportunity to get into the theatrical world, Pen and Ink will also teach design, history of theater, theater management, and other theater courses.
CECATI 63 Director, Tomás Ramirez Villaseñor, recently announced that the company will soon start making modifications to the Cecatur auditorium in downtown Puerto Vallarta, at a cost of 250 thousand pesos. He added that the company will give drama students the opportunity to participate in on-stage productions of professional plays.
In turn, Sergio Garcilazo commented that the intent is to create a culture of professional theater in Vallarta, since the municipality is ready to have an excellent theater repertoire. He stressed that that one of the most important items in the project is to have students represent plays both in Spanish and in English, in response to the great number of foreign visitors to this tourist destination.
In closing, Garcilazo made the announcement that theater courses will kick off in August, and from December to March the fruits of the training will be presented in plays such as "The Night of the Iguana," "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Man of la Mancha." For more information call 223-5260. |
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