Toledano Teatro de Rojas will renovate the butacas patio and lift to the stage for visitors.

The Teatro de Rojas is going to renovate its butacas courtyard for guests, as well as an elevator that allows access to the upper plant stage and the amphitheater.. The decision to take on these modernization tasks was unanimously taken by all the city groups at a meeting of the Municipal Patronage of the Ayuntamiento de Toledo, which manages the activities of the Toledo Coliseum.

The assumption also received unanimous approval from the Hacienda Committee This assumption was incorporated into the urgent need to finance these works together with other activities of a cultural nature, such as the co-production of a work by Rojas Zorrilla, whose author increased the estimated adjustment of 453,145 euros to this municipal theater from November under the Extraordinary Credit Modality and a credit supplement, which will be financed from the main cash balance patronage of Rojas.

Many booths located on the terrace of the theater stands, which were installed twenty years ago, are very dilapidatedboth in the structure of Madeira and in the base of the floor. For this reason, the Patronato was praised for the exchange. It is also expected that the new guests will be connected by an anchorage mechanism, which allows easy assembly and disassembly in cases where it is necessary to raise the auditorium, over the old foso mechanism, or dismantle the first rows of booths to enter the orchestra. The request for this realization is 123,000 euros.

Replacement of the elevator

Similarly, during the subsequent repairs of the elevator, which makes the stage of the higher floors and the amphitheater accessible, the municipality decided to proceed with its replacement. Among other reasons The actual elevator is listed with a manual double door, which is outdated. The cost of the new elevator, which will also have a door five centimeters higher, is 30,000 euros.

Teatro de Rojas will also highlight other inversions of technical features, such as the best of the observation tower with the replacement of the hierro bars with other aluminum ones and the installation of a horizontal line that will increase safety when carrying out technical work at heights. A turn in these two events costs 15,500 euros. In this category, you can add another 53,500 euros for the installation of a double curtain on the 51 stages that are spread over the three floors of the Teatro de Rojas.

450 years of Corral de Comedias

El Coliseo Toledano wants to join the celebration of 450 years of Corral de Comedias ‘Mesón de la Fruta’opened in 1576 and located in the place currently occupied by the Teatro de Rojas, therefore considered one of the oldest in Europe.

For this reason, director Rojas “considers it appropriate and in keeping with the historical theatrical legacy to bring to the stage some texts of the Toledo playwright Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla with the aim of bringing the work closer to the general public and especially to the younger generations”.

to make it happen The Patronato welcomes co-productions, in collaboration with other institutions, such as the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, the work of Rojas Zorrill for its worldwide audience. 94,000 euros are reserved for this project.

Similarly, the Teatro de Rojas wants to “recover steadily and continuously” with visits guided by light, contrast and the elevation mechanism of the butacas terrace. “To be able to offer visitors adequate artistic, historical and technical information during the journey” through audio guides. Rojas allocates 2,800 euros to buy 10 games of these devices.

Treasury balances

asimism, preliminary arrangement reserves an additional 33,700 euros to celebrate the Primer Encuentro de Teatros Históricos a Ibérica Route de Teatros Hispano-Portugueses in Toledo in collaboration with Asociación Europea de Teatros Históricos (Perspectiv) and Red Española de Teatros y Auditorios.

The Teatro de Rojas closed the financial year 2023 with a remaining fund for general gases of 1,281,443.66 euros, of which only 1,125,353.66 is available. After this credit adjustment, the balance is reduced to 672,208.66 euros. The intervention of the municipality, however, believes that the expediente is in accordance with the legislation presuppuestaria advirte that “when approved, the calculable gas is estimated at the level of implementation according to the original forecasts and in the situation of incumplimiento of the tax regulations, taking into account that it is currently implemented before December 31 of this year”.