Vanessa Redgrave received the International Award of Arts

Yesterday, the actress Vanessa Redgrave (London, 1937) received the
International Award of Arts of Castilla - La Mancha (Premio Internacional de
las Artes Escénicas) "Court of Comedies of Almagro", just in time with the
end of the XXIX International Classical Theater Festival.

XXIX International Classical Theater Festival (Almagro)

This daughter and sister of actors, who has been a member of the Royal
Shakespeare company since her youth, confessed at a press conference that a
few years ago she was about to give up the theater, a decision she finally
didn´t take "because someone convinced me that it was a delict" and above
all taking in account the siege at Sarajevo (Bosnia Hezegovina). "At this
time I actullay understood that the vocation of the theater, the existance
of the theater in all its forms, is vital for the resistance of the human
spirit and the survival of the human being", emphazised the British actress
who during her long professional career became famous for rejecting the wars
of Vietnam, Iraq and Chechenia and the northamerican captivity of Guantanamo
(Cuba) or for critizising the brutality of the police at some demonstrations
in Great Britain.

Vanessa Redgrave showed a lot of interest for the promotion of the theater:
"My main worry now is the general backup of the theater, the festivals, the
actors, the students of the theater, music, dance and interpretation."