Theatre project design
4 grants of € 2,300 each
At the Lliure, we are making a particular effort this year to discover new authors from around the world. Because we miss being able to travel, and we believe that opening up to other regions of the world that are further away opens up our perspective as it does when we go to visit them. And theatre is a way of getting closer to them. We also believe that there are ages at which writing provides very special views of life.
Accordingly, we have selected theatre projects based on any type of language and/or artistic expression (dramatic texts, novels, essays, fiction or documentary scripts, installations and exhibitions) by authors who were under 30 years old when they created those works.
- Blanca Garcia Lladó for Cowboy Mouth, by Patti Smith and Sam Shepard."Maladjusted" young people or an obsolete society? LIVE life to the full and rediscover yourself.
- Ça marche for Cantus gestualis or who's gonna reset the bones. An X-ray of pain (and its inherent terror).
- El EJE for Finitud: Pluja de pedres [Finiteness: Rain of stones]. The concept of the "me and us" binomial and its limits, considered from two perspectives: the monogamous couple and the post-COVID19 situation.
- Héctor Mellinas for Don Joan i Faust [Don Juan und Faust]. Helplessness after the discovery that our male points of reference are no longer valid.
The Carlota Soldevila extraordinary grants are possible thanks to the partnership between the Theatre and the Fundació Banc Sabadell. This partnership is a response to the desire of both institutions to foster and support theatre art and production.
Supported by Temporada Alta
Dramatic texts
5 grants of € 2,300 each
We have selected newly written texts that reflect on the changes in society's model and workings that may take place after a major disruptive event such as a pandemic, although this was not necessarily the reference point. These are texts that talk about what may or may not have changed, about new human fears and relationships, survival, grief, perseverance, euphoria and loneliness. About what it has taught us and what it has not, as a human group, as a society and as individuals, and its consequences.
- Yaiza Berrocal Guevara for Ni temeré les feres [Nor will I fear the beasts]. This text is a dramatic exploration of the proliferation of conspiracy theories in late capitalism.
- Matías Daporta for Washington, by Lars Von Trier. A story which takes a critical look at the influence of culture.
- Ferran Dordal Lalueza for Weltschmerz (provisional title). What are our alternatives as individuals in a state of permanent crisis?
- La Virguería for El missioner [The missionary]. The influence exerted by the music industry through the music video, a missionary for the capitalist way of life all over the world.
- Oriol Morales i Pujolar for A la vall [In the valley]. Catastrophe interrupts everything imaginable. Catastrophe is the defeat of man and his ridiculous capacity for imagination and control. Long live catastrophe.
The Carlota Soldevila extraordinary grants 20/21 are possible thanks to the partnership between the Theatre and the Fundació Banc Sabadell. This partnership is a response to the desire of both institutions to foster and support theatre art and production.
Drama in street arts
5 grants of € 2,300 each
In partnership and complicity with Fira Tàrrega, we have opened our doors to street arts, one of the less common branches of the performance arts in the programme of the Teatre Lliure. The following have been selected:
- Yaiza Ares and Santiago Cirugeda for Zona en obra [Area under construction]. A social and participatory project that reinterprets the architectural construction of the urban space of the point of view escènic.
- Col·lectiu Pedant a Missa i Repicant for El perro cantautor, de hambriento a emperador [The singer-songwriter dog, from starving to emperor]. A musical comedy in ten sketches on wheels; an epic poem about misery, enterprise and careerism.
- Companyia Pagans for El valor de res [The value of nothing]. An interaction of performing arts, technology and the act of reading a literary text.
- Cristina Cordero Crespo for I/O [AND/OR]. A community exploration of the gains and losses of collective versus individual actions.
- Urati Laboratori / Albert Chamorro Serrano for Eternos profetas de la fatalidad [Eternal prophets of doom]. A theatrical installation that aims for users to experience the global effects of climate change at first hand, by using various sensory technologies to perceive the environment.
The Carlota Soldevila extraordinary grants 20/21 are possible thanks to the partnership between the Theatre and the Fundació Banc Sabadell. This partnership is a response to the desire of both institutions to foster and support theatre art and production.
Supported by Fira Tàrrega
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6 grants of € 2,300 each
What should we talk about with children and young people? How do we talk to them? Perhaps we need to look at the current situation of despondency and exhaustion through their eyes? In partnership with the Mostra d'Igualada youth theatre, we have selected stage projects designed for children and young people, with a particular emphasis on intergenerational perspectives. These projects address contemporary themes, are innovative in the way they are conveyed, and are daring in their production approaches.
- Martí Castellarnau and Cristina Fuentes Ávila for Private by Daniel J. Meyer.The story of two teenage half-sisters and a mother living together, addressing the complex current situation of the city of Barcelona.
- Cía. Vero Cendoya for Viatge a Dashkin Dinajpur [Journey to Dashkin Dinajpur]. A documentary production for families about adoption.
- David Franch for Normal. The questioning of what society considers to be normal or abnormal.
- Maria Jover and Clara Sáez Juste for El lloc del desig [The place of desire]. An interactive reflection on the action of desire, with a visual, musical and related approach and a participatory final workshop.
- Carles Sala i Vila for Entre aigües [Between waters]. A thoughtless young man, a sour meteorologist, and an old man halfway between wise and crazy have to live shut up in a hut in the middle of the forest during a period of heavy rain.
- Produït per Hit for Amateur. The nature of fiction and deception through screens.
The Carlota Soldevila extraordinary grants 20/21 are possible thanks to the partnership between the Theatre and the Fundació Banc Sabadell. This partnership is a response to the desire of both institutions to foster and support theatre art and production.
Supported by Mostra d'Igualada
