Although Ukraine falls last in the alphabetical listing of the homelands of performers in the 2020 Festival Cultural de Mayo, the war-torn country seems destined to attract the most attention in this year’s line-up in Guadalajara, and not just because of the bombs and refugees.
After running a couple of years at a modest pandemic scale, the annual Festival, now in its 25th iteration, kicks off Saturday, May 7 (8:30 p.m.), and Sunday, May 8 (12:30 p.m.), in the luscious Degollado Theater, with an intriguing multi-media theatrical performance entitled “Violence” from Quebec’s Infrarouge group, called realist, surrealist and expressionist. With seats at 300 to 600 pesos, “Violence” is the most expensive event in the Festival—many events are free—and said to be spoken in English with Spanish subtitles (although its teaser video is in French).
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