Persuade with the classics – Magazine Teatre Barcelona
In this edition of the Greek, the proposals for international directions with classic texts often. It has its logic: the great titles have shown that they can anchor to various depths and offer original readings without suffering the weight of the plot. There is another advantage. If the audience knows the story, you will have less anguish to risk; It is very delimited as much as possible of the language and being able to attend to the interpretation of the performers without having to concentrate excessively on the overflows. Currently, at which time the journeys of the companies have been expelled for travel and accommodation costs, the commitment should be very tuned to prevent the international game from being reduced to too specific actions and not to give the renewal gaze to the festival showcase.
Often, in the changes in international theaters of theaters (such as the Liceu or the TNC, the Free or the Flower Market, for example), the contacts agenda of the new people in charge is also tested. In fact, the international market works with a lot of foresight and, most likely, it will be in the years that come when the strength and interest of the proposals of the team led by the team will be able to detect Leticia Martín At the head of the Greek. This year there are returns to the Greek Theater as Declan Donellan with the National Company of the Clásico Theaterwith the version of The two Hidalgos of Verona (July 18 and 19), after premiering in Greek with Life is sue with the firm of Cheek by jwlby 2023. Now, the British director lands in Barcelona with this piece that probably would have already been protected by Lluís Homar Before that he resigned from the direction of the so -called company.
One of the highlights of this year’s poster is the presence of the South African creator William Kentridge that recovers a montage inspired by the Fare of Goethe: Faustus in Africa (June 27 and 28 at the Teatre Lliure de Montjuïc). Director that is characterized by his drawings in the productions (be it opera or theater) has presented this season at the Liceu Oh to Believe in Another World and, formerly the Wozzeck fromAlan Berg the one of 2020-21.
Milo rau He is a director who has visited the Greek on time. They are usually long pieces, documentary theater, committed and uncomfortable. Now he dares to revisit the myth of Medea from the gaze of the children: Medea’s Kinderen (July 21 and 22 in the Free of Montjuïc), from the verses ofEuripides. What is significant of the proposal is that all papers are played by boys and girls from 9 to 14 years old. Lies insists on the crudeness of Five Easy Pieces (Scheduled at Easter 2017 in the Free). He has just left the direction of the NTGent from where he took to Barcelona Hate Radio (Greek, 2013) on killings in Tutsis; The Civil Wars (Greek, 2015) on the danger of getting involved in creating a caliphate leaving the Salafista surroundings of Belgium, and The reprise. Histoire (s) du Théâtre (i) (Greek, 2018) made the reconstruction of the murder ofIhsane Jarfia young homosexual in Belgium in 2012. Milo Rau spends a controversial theater and reflects how to put the most raw violence on stage to cause discomfort and need for transformation in the courtyard.
Moreno Bernardi He is an Italian artist closely linked to the Akademia Theater where he presents his work of deep intensity. Now will be the turn ofHomer: Odyssey/ Studio 1from the adaptation ofAlberto Conejero It can be seen in the Atrium (29 to July 31). By the way, the akademia recovers, from May 21 to June 8 the functions of Paradisea revision of the radical text of Kae storm.
There is also room for reinterpreted classics with a contemporary look, as Lisaboa Hubrechts does, which has chosen the anti -war antibelistic anthem of Mother courage of Bertolt Brecht ((Moeder CourageJuly 16 and 17, Montjuïc Free Theater) to mark the limits of resilience, vulnerability and death of loved people. Allow the curtain!
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