With official mourning over, the fallero calendar is picking up speed again. The week of 2 to 8 November brings the opening of the Primera and Segunda category Teatre Faller contests, which fill the first three nights, and the return of adult play-back to the Canal hall after the late-October postponements.

The double opening night is this Monday at 21:30. At La Rambleta, Primera Category opens with Cádiz-Dènia and L'Entusiasme; at the Flumen hall, Segunda opens with Giorgeta-Roig de Corella and El Florit Pensil. The Russafa commission finished third last year and brings a demanding piece: Ángel Sanchis and Paqui Revert take on seven and eight roles, director Natalia Dutor plays three, and Valencia fire brigade chief inspector Enrique Chisbert keeps the parts of Toni and the Narrator. Giorgeta arrive in the category as newly promoted.

Tuesday belongs to Archiduque Carlos-Músico Gomis with El método Gronholm (La Rambleta) and Quart-Palomar with Turis-Mec! (Flumen). Wednesday closes this first batch with Reino de València-Duque de Calabria and El Dubte, and Mariano Benlliure-Acequia Tormos with Matar el Rei.

Play-back, ADEF and Manises

The Canal hall programmes adult play-back again on Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 at 22:00. Among those on stage are Marqués de Montortal-José Esteve, Félix Pizcueta-Cirilo Amorós and Santiago Rusiñol-Conde Lumiares in the individual category, plus Monestir de Poblet-Aparicio Albiñana and Zapadores-Vicente Lleó in Group A. Sunday morning brings the children's session, with Zapadores-Vicente Lleó, Molinell-Alboraia, Cádiz-Dènia, Av. Ecuador-Alcalde Gurrea, Escalante-Marina, Maestro Bellver-Mariano Ribera and Poeta Alberola-Totana.

The Converses al Peset of the Associació d'Estudis Fallers also return to the Rector Peset hall: Tuesday with Slow Falles (Pilar and María José Luna, Vicente Lorenzo, Vicente Vendrell) and Wednesday with Fast Falles (Javi García, Víctor Visa, Zvonimir Ostoic, Marina Puche, Iván Tortajada). They come the week after the city council plenary confirmed that ADEF is out of the Intangible Heritage monitoring committee, an absence the association and several local boards are still demanding be reversed.

On Sunday, Balls al Carrer moves to Plaza de Manises with eleven commissions, from Mariano Benlliure-Acequia Tormos to Poetas Anónimos-Real de Gandia, and the Collectors' Fair returns to the JCF gardens at 11:30.

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