‘Summertime’: the pirate Goldoni – Revista Teatre Barcelona
In 1761 Carlo Goldoni wrote the Holiday Trilogy, composed of three comedies (I wear them for vacation, The holiday adventure i The return of vacation). The triptych focuses on families who prepare for the holidays, live them and return from them. The Goldonian essence remains in the portrait of the bourgeoisie and in the impeccable transition from illusion to disenchantment. All these incomplete longings and these dissatisfactions are good material for a The Piratesone of the companies most used to working with the art comedy. The merger of Goldoni’s trilogy with the name of The summer will premiere in Maldà on February 5, 2026. We talked about it with theAdrian Aubertfounder and director of the company.
The summer is a comedy about “two houses that are preparing to go on vacation. In this preparation we see the conflicts that exist: a possible marriage between the heir of one house and the heiress of the other and other conflicts and interests between the houses. The typical messes, to understand”. Núria Cuyàs, Ricard Farré, Laura Paul i Arnau Puig they are the pirates who, once again, will be under the orders of the precise Adrià Aubert, who directs the play and adapts it together with the Carla Coll. “The first part is all the preparation for this summer vacation and how it constantly changes. In the second part, we find ourselves in the summer vacation itself, when all the conflicts arise, and the third part is the return to the usual houses and the moment when everything is resolved.” However, it wouldn’t be a work of Els Pirates if the story didn’t have some slight variations to bring it to a more current terrain and do damage where it’s time to do damage. “The interests of each of the characters and their resolutions are contextualized more in contemporaneity. We try to have solid plots, especially in the female characters.”
It’s only fair that the company makes its first Goldoni and that it does so with a classic like this. “He is an author who was in the drawer, pending. We had different works that we had been commenting on over time and this was one of them”. Each work that the company chooses also does so because it fits with a series of themes that challenge the viewers. The resort “I was just talking about aesthetic pressure, a topic we wanted to deal with for some time. This is the starting point”. Aubert and Coll have been transforming the plots, decontextualizing and contemporizing them. They also wink at another of the social conflicts that affect us today: “the tourism model we have, more towards consumerism, towards massification, etc”.
The Pirates celebrate a quarter of a century next year. Fifteen members who met as teenagers, who became professionals and who thirteen years ago decided to manage a room giving opportunities to other companies and betting on dignity. A small miracle that we should celebrate with joy.
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