The caloric takes refuge in the woods
Company The caloric celebrates its 15th anniversary with the premiere of The deer rusha new existential and political comedy with dramaturgy of Joan Yago and direction ofIsrael Solà. The show can be seen from May 21 to June 22 in the Sala Fabià Puigserver de Montjuïc, and marks the company’s first production in a large stage of the Teatre Lliure.
The work starts at a remote mountain hotel that offers as a tourist claim to listen to the deer’s ridge. There are a series of diverse characters for a weekend: a couple in crisis, an entrepreneur with a real estate business in their hands, two young people lost in the forest looking for a secret party, and a group of theater creators immersed in a symposium on political theater to transform society and build a better world. “At one point, the stories begin to mix and to join based on a very realistic premise, and letting us conquer a little by the magic of the forest, the night and the party,” says Joan Yago.
True to its style, the caloric has worked on a process of collective creation. In this case, without previous texts, they started with long conversations on interior issues. Israel Solà comments: “We talked a lot about the feeling of plateau: we are 15 years old, we have reached a place, now we have a ease, we are here and … we have to need even more emotions? Can we keep here? Now only the decline comes? What happens when I am simply happy?” From this shared life moment, the company identified an inner emptiness and a tendency to combat it from individualism. Solà adds: “We were very focused on the idea that the only way to fix the future is working on the self, but sometimes there are structural problems that need collective solutions.”
Inspired by those who seek to heal with spiritual escapades or retreat in the wild, the team conceived a parody of the so-called “unique experiences”. Yago summarizes it irony: “The idea of ’I need to connect with nature, heal, to fix all the problems I have as a human being’ and I think that, going a weekend to 400 kilometers from my house to hear a deer brawle, I will return on Monday at eight in the new and fixed. ”
The cast is made up of Oriol Casals, Xavi Francés, Aitor Galisteo-Rocher, Esther López, Salvatierra honey and Júlia Truyol. In spite of having presented before montages in the Free of Gràcia, such as Le Congress ne Marche Pas (2023) and Feísima dwarfed and very sad death of Queen Elizabeth I (2020), is the first time that the calorie has premiered in a large room. Solà acknowledges: “I very much associate the feeling of risk with a good feeling. When I realize that what we are doing is difficult and different, that it has its own entity, then I relax.”
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