A cricket got into our flat (and other domestic catastrophes)

Laia and Guillem haven’t been sleeping well for days: a cricket has taken up residence in a corner of their small flat in Barcelona. They don’t see him, but they hear him chattering non-stop. He is very insistent. What starts as a simple domestic anecdote ends up becoming a big explosion. The noise of the cricket infiltrates the relationship and becomes a metaphor for the couple’s conflicts: it is the awareness that does not remain silent, that resonates in the back of the mind and forces them to ask themselves what is wrong.

From March 5 to April 27, Sala Flyhard hosts the cricketa comedy written and directed by Danny Love i Serapi Soler. on stage, Anna Bertran i Jose Perez Ocaña they bring to life this couple who, while searching for the insect, end up reflecting on the place where they live, their work, their children and their shared future.

Where does it come from?the cricket?

The idea of ​​turning a cricket into the protagonist in the shadow of this work is born from a true story. “A relative of mine who lives in Barcelona, ​​next to Balmes with Miter, told me over a lunch that she had a cricket at home a week ago: they heard it, but they couldn’t find it,” explains Serapi Soler, co-author and co-director of the work. They got to a point where they wondered if they were imagining it. “I left that lunch thinking that there was something interesting, mysterious and funny,” recalls the author and director. He shared it and they put a thread on the needle with Dani Amor with whom ja had shared project with The great offensea work that was cut short by the pandemic. “We kept a very good memory of it and always said that we had to do theater together again”, explains Serapi Soler.

“We talk about the housing crisis, the labor crisis, the decision to have children or not”

Coming from audiovisual, they missed continuity and direct contact with the actors. “We are big fans of comedy and we love to see the performers up close, working on a text we wrote between the two of us”, he points out.

Intergenerational problems

Although the cricket could be read as a generational portrait, Dani Amor nuances it. “We talk about the housing crisis, the labor crisis, the decision to have children or not – he is specific -. These are issues that could seem specific to people in their 30s, but we have realized that they are intergenerational”, he points out. For this reason, the decision to count on Anna Bertran and Jose Pérez Ocaña is not accidental. The characters are not disoriented youths, but adults who have already entered their forties. “We were interested in them being actors at an age when, in theory, you should already have certain things established: work, housing, life plans…” explains Amor.

the cricket it’s not just about an uncatchable bug, but a shared discomfort. Amor and Soler use comedy to shed light—and an insistent cackle—on everything that creaks when expectations have not been met. Maybe the cricket never goes away completely; maybe what changes is the way you listen to it.

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