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'A moving performance!' – Zacatecas 2025 International Street Theater Festival amazes attendees with aerial bike show

'A moving performance!' – Zacatecas 2025 International Street Theater Festival amazes attendees with aerial bike show

"The 22nd edition of the 'Zacatecas 2025 International Street Theater Festival' delighted attendees with a dreamlike show that transformed the sky into a stage of aerial bicycles with the play 'Pedalling towards the sky', by the Belgian company Theater Tol. Footage filmed on Monday shows the performance at Plaza de Armas in Zacatecas, where lights, projections, and live music captivated spectators. Claudia Bustillos, festival attendee, said it is a "first-class" show that, being outdoors, allows people passing by to approach and watch the play, giving them "access to culture in other ways." "I liked it a lot, it even moved me. What I liked the most was the live instrument performance. There is a violinist, a trumpeter and singers," she added. As part of the festival activities, the Zacatecas audience also enjoyed the Alternative Art Group 'El Escarabajo', which presented the show 'Saltimbanxs', a proposal that combines physical theater with humor and live music. "The play is precisely about the demands of art, but also about demands in other worlds, like science and education, where being strict is fully normalized, but it also greatly affects the body and the soul. So we propose that art must be made with love, it must be made with great respect, and that is the message of the play," said Carlos Alejandro, actor of the company. He explained that over several years, 'El Escarabajo' has presented various plays at the festival and emphasised that such events, highlighting street art, help maintain closer contact between artists and the audience. "I love being close to the audience because that way we make a real energy connection, and I feel that sometimes in conventional theater we are very separated, but in street theater we can meet anyone and any kind of audience is welcome," he added. The Zacatecas International Street Theater Festival runs from October 11 to 18 in streets, alleys, and plazas across the state, featuring 19 national and international companies. Artists from other countries come from Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Spain, the United States, and Venezuela. The festival has established itself as a national and international cultural reference, with free performances and programming focused on street arts that transform the city into a living stage, integrating the audience into the experience."

Riot Women Reviews: Critics Are Saying This 'Glorious' New Drama Is Your Next Binge-Watch

Riot Women Reviews: Critics Are Saying This 'Glorious' New Drama Is Your Next Binge-Watch

Riot Women is the latest critically-acclaimed show from Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright If reviews are to be believed, Sally Wainwright – the mind behind hugely popular shows including Last Tango In Halifax, Gentleman Jack and, perhaps most notably, Happy Valley – has another hit on her hands. On Sunday night, the new six-part series Riot Women premiered, featuring Lorraine Ashbourne, Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig, Rosalie Craig and Amelia Bullmore as a group of middle-aged women fed up with their lot in life who form a rock group as a way of channelling some of their negative energy. In the last few days, the show has received near-unanimous praise, with a smattering of four- and five-star reviews praising its humour, as well as its depiction of female characters who are mid-life. Here’s a selection of what’s being said about Riot Women… The Times (4/5) “Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women started with a dramatic punch to the face and kept up the raucously high energy of a pneumatic jackhammer until the end of the episode. It’s hard to think of anyone better to write about unapologetic, wall-kicking, midlife female rage. The rage that comes from spending your life looking after other people, then finding there’s nothing much left for you in the final furlong.” The Guardian (4/5) “This high-pedigree TV drama about midlife women who form a punk band is up there with Happy Valley and Last Tango In Halifax. It’s rich, plot-packed, and perfectly seasoned with humour.” Riot Women stars Lorraine Ashbourne, Rosalie Craig, Joanna Scanlan, Amelia Bullmore and Tamsin Greig The Independent (4/5) “Wainwright has always known how to take a simple story – an interfamily saga or a cop drama – and tell it so dynamically, so charismatically, that it is elevated. Like its characters, Riot Women takes its time to come into its own – but, when it does, it is full-throated and glorious.” The Daily Mail (4/5) “Riot Women is a raucous, messy charge through midlife with a bunch of female friends who are bubbling with rage at the injustices of the patriarchy.” The Standard (4/5) “A glorious, feminist roar [...] Why did we have to wait so long to see middle-aged women portrayed on screen like this? To hell with ageing gracefully; it’s far more fun to stick two fingers up at going quietly and roar into that good night instead.” The i (5/5) “Wainwright isn’t the first to tackle the menopause years, but she’s one of the very best to do so. We ask so much of middle-aged women, but we don’t notice they’re holding up the sky at a time when everything physical and emotional is crumbling. Riot Women plugs into that accepted overload so many of us contain and asks: what would happen if we tapped that vein and let it rip?” Riot Women centres around a group of women who start their own punk rock band Digital Spy “Riot Women – a drama about five women who come together to defy all external expectations and start a punk rock band – is precisely what you need to fill that Happy Valley-shaped hole in your life, even if it’s in ways that you might not quite have been expecting.” The Telegraph (3/5) “Scanlan is given a speech in a later episode which sums up exactly who Wainwright is trying to represent – women dealing with difficult parents, even more difficult adult children, midlife-crisis husbands and then ‘the f―-ing menopause – tearful at every tiny, stupid thing, the anxiety, the brain fog, and in the middle of that you become invisible’. That will be recognisable to a lot of women. But it also reminded me of America Ferrera’s monologue in Barbie.” Riot Women is available to stream now on BBC iPlayer, with episodes also airing weekly on Sunday nights at 9pm on BBC One. Watch the trailer below: MORE TV: This Is How Long Bridgerton Fans Have To Wait Until The Show Returns For Season 4 Here's Why Everyone Is Suddenly Talking About A Potential Inbetweeners Revival Critics Can't Agree If Victoria Beckham's Netflix Doc Is 'Deeply Personal' Or An 'Infuriating Waste'

Rocky Horror star Tim Curry touches on his sexuality: ‘It was the 70s’

Rocky Horror star Tim Curry touches on his sexuality: ‘It was the 70s’

Tim Curry, the star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has touched on his sexuality in a new interview looking back at his life and career. The 79-year-old actor, known also for his roles in It and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, has discussed all this in his new memoir, Vagabond. In an […] The post Rocky Horror star Tim Curry touches on his sexuality: ‘It was the 70s’ appeared first on PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news .