The SGAE Max Awards, the most important performing arts in Spain with the permission of the nascent Talía Awards, already have finalists. And they are more distributed than ever. Barely one production has achieved four nominations, El bosque, by Mario Bermúdez Gil, one of the five candidates for best dance show of the year. In theater, the dispersion is total but, yes, an author and director, María Goiricelaya, gives the bell achieving no less than three nominations for two different works, and among the five finalists for best theater show of the year three based on directly on real events.
It is about Altsasu, a creation of the Basque collective La dramatica errante about the altercation between residents of the Navarrese town and civil guards that ended in the National Court; La infamia, co-produced by the Teatro Español in Madrid, about the kidnapping of the Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho for denouncing an international network of pedophilia and sexual exploitation; and Zona inundable, by Marta Gil Polo, a co-production of the National Theater of Catalonia and the Principal Theater of Palma de Mallorca based on the floods that in 2018 devastated the archives of the peace courts of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, erasing the history of thousands of people.
Along with them are nominated The will to believe by Pablo Messiez, a co-production of the Spanish Theater that takes up Dreyer’s mythical film, Ordet, to talk about faith, and Crim i càstig, a production of the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona directed by Pau Carrió from Dostoevsky’s classic. Of the five candidates for best work of the year, only three have received another nomination in this exceptional year: Carrió is nominated for best adaptation, Marta Nieto and Marina Salas are competing ex aequo for the best actress award for La infamia and María Goiricelaya is a candidate. for best playwright for Altsasu.
But it is also that his collective La drámática errante has achieved three other Max nominations this year for its production Yerma: best actress for Ane Pikaza and best direction and adaptation for Goiricelaya.
Iñaki Rikarte also opted for Best Theater Direction for Supernormales -a play from the National Drama Center that humorously breaks taboos about people with functional disabilities and is also nominated for Best Authorship for Esther F. Carrodeguas- and Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero for El mar: visió d’uns niens que no l’han vist mai, co-production of the TNC and the FITT of Tarragona, poetic theater about the promise that a republican teacher made to his students in 1936 and could not keep.
Pere Arquillué for L’adversari, Carlos Hipólito for Oceanía and Alfredo Noval for La vida es sueño, while the third best actress candidate is Pepa Pedroche for Los santos inocentes.
In dance, in addition to El bosque, the other four nominees for best show of the year are Eta orain zer? And now what?, by Kukai dantza, with three nominations, La Reina del Metal, by the Vanesa Aibar company, and Archipelago of Disasters, by Elena Carrascal, with two, and Al son, by Sara Cano.
La gata perduda, from the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Villa y Marte, by Ron Lalá, and El sobre verde, from the Teatro de la Zarzuela, compete for best musical or lyrical show, while Love competes for best street show. love, love, by Animasur, Maña, by the Manolo Alcántara company, and Words that break bones, by the Pagans company. The finalists for best family show are Bajau, from Ponten Pie, Blancanieves, from La Chana Teatro, and The Man Who Planted Trees, from Teatro Gorakada.
