Eight plays, four student companies and more than a hundred students are some of the figures of the University Theater Fortnight, which this year reaches its XIX edition. It is organized Cultural Activities Office in Civivox Iturrama and it involves two students of ISSA School of Management Assistants: Sofia Jessie Cockburn and Axel Extramiana.  

Sofia- Jessie Cockburn
Course: 1st of Degree in Management Assistance
Play: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Company: Kill the prompter

"Theater is a very useful tool to practice in a fun way this skill that is so hard for us: public speaking."

She was the last one to join the company 'Matad al apuntador'. She did it to play Ross, when the person who was going to play him had to leave group. She started in the university theater through the big door representing Macbeth, and although she had participated in some plays before, even in another of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, "I had never played a man". She assures that she has loved the theater experience because she gets to relax and learn at the same time. He also explains that "theater is a very useful tool to practice in a fun way this skill that scares us so much: public speaking".

Axel Extramiana
Course: 1st of Degree in Management Assistance
Play: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Company: Kill the prompter

"The theater has been a revolution for me and a turning point".

Of the character he portrays remains his loyalty to King Duncan and Scotland, his steely ideals and his bravery. He plays Macduff. He says that although theater was something he had always loved, he either didn't have the confidence to go on stage or his status in life had not allowed him to join a company. However, with this year's experience with group 'Matad al apuntador' he says he is living a "revolution" and a "point and apart": "Although it may seem that going to rehearsals is a nuisance, the truth is that it clears me and recharges my energies. I stop being me to be my character and it is a breath of fresh air in my day to day". She rehearses four hours a week, although the weeks prior to the performances are more intense. Apart from theater, she works at an academy teaching Japanese and goes to the gym. He says that theater has helped him to gain more self-confidence and to learn other facets of his personality: "Using metaphorical masks to play other characters and putting himself in different tessituras allows a growth and development that would be difficult to achieve otherwise".