El Conde de Torrefiel
La luz de un lago
novembernov 4 – 16
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© Mario Zamora ©
© Mario Zamora ©
Tuesday november 4
21h
Wednesday november 5
18h
Wednesday november 5
21h
Thursday november 6
18h
Thursday november 6
21h
Friday november 7
18h
Friday november 7
21h
Saturday november 8
18h
Saturday november 8
21h
Sunday november 9
15h
Tuesday november 11
18h
Tuesday november 11
21h
Wednesday november 12
18h
Wednesday november 12
21h
Thursday november 13
18h
Thursday november 13
21h
Friday november 14
18h
Friday november 14
21h
Saturday november 15
18h
Saturday november 15
21h
Sunday november 16
15h
Conception El Conde de Torrefiel. Directed, written and dramaturgical by Tanya Beyeler, Pablo Gisbert. With Mireia Donat Melús, Mauro Molina, Isaac Torres. Scenography El Conde de Torrefiel, Isaac Torres. Space and materials El Conde de Torrefiel, La Cuarta Piel. Coordination and technical direction Isaac Torres. Light creation Manoly Rubio García. Sound creation Rebecca Praga, Uriel Ireland. Video creation Carlos Pardo, María Antón Cabot. Touring technicians Uriel Ireland, Guillem Bonfill, Roberto Baldinelli. Production and administration Uli Vandenberghe. Executive Production Alessandra Simeoni – CIELO DRIVE SL.
With the support of ICEC – Generalitat de Catalunya (production); Festival TNT Terrassa Noves Tendències; Teatre de Lloret
Coproduction Grec Festival de Barcelona; Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque (Madrid); Maison Saint-Gervais (Geneva); Teatro Municipal do Porto; Festival d'Automne à Paris; Festival delle Colline Torinesi (Turin); Contemporanea Festival (Prato); Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Ghent)
Thanks Marta Azparren and her inspiring book Cine Ciego, La Cuarta Piel, Regina Gisbert, Telas con Alma, Sergi Caballero, Los Reyes del Mambo, Salva Gisbert and Amalia Donat
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is co-producer of this show and presents it in co-realisation with Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe.
The latest production by the Catalan company El Conde de Torrefiel invites us to close our eyes in order to better open them. It unveils a space in which the audience's imagination encounters the virtuosity of this extraordinary creative duo.
"This is a film," announces a voice at the beginning of the play. The text, delivered via a mixture of voice-over and surtitles, plunges us into four stories, four fragments of life: a romantic encounter during a Massive Attack concert (Manchester, 1995), a clandestine meeting in a cinema (Athens, 2012), an evening in the life of a transsexual biologist (Paris, 2024), and an opera premiere (Venice, 2036). We are presented with four stories that intertwine in a baffling way, because some are spectators or readers of the lives of others. Four moments in time that extend into the duration of the intertwined narratives. By means of a staging the sparsity and abstract nature of which distills our imagination, the omnipresent soundtrack punctuates the movements of a scenography composed of panels and screens, concealing and revealing in equal measure. In La luz de un lago (The Light of a Lake), Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert relish in blurring the lines, in order to probe deeper into what defines us as spectators.
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