The Tantarantana imagines the collapse of Europe
From February 25 to March 22, the Tantarantana Theatre proposes Goodbye Europe. Lost Wordsa text from David Carnevali directed by Dawn Collado. The assembly, interpreted by Alba Vinton, Ton Vieira i Martí Atanceimagines a Europe about to collapse through a surreal comedy.
The piece begins with a specific situation: a job interview in a world that is ending. In this environment of disfigured offices and endless conversations, everything revolves around performance. What is not useful or does not produce is left out. As the action progresses, humans, animals, and objects blend into a landscape where time seems to go backwards and the meaning of words is distorted.
According to the director, the starting point is not a future catastrophe, but a process already underway. “The apocalypse we explore in this show is not just a distant event: it is the direct consequence of the failure of a system. In our work, this failure manifests itself through language.”
Collado explains that the characters transform reality to the point of turning it into a logic of profit where everything is evaluated by what it can contribute. “Even what we traditionally consider ethical or spiritual – faith, hope, charity, revolution or the idea of God – is reduced to a question of profit”. The result, he says, is that “reality ceases to have value for itself”.
“We are immersed in the time of the end: there is no future, only going backwards”, says Collado. Located on this threshold, the work portrays a society that, faced with the evidence of the end, does not try to change its course, but to optimize its consequences.
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