‘Black animal grief’ opens a cycle over the Beckett climate crisis

  • Julio Manrique directs the powerful work of Anja Hilling performed by Joan Amargós, Màrcia Cisteró, Mia Esteve, Norbert Martínez, Jordi Oriol, Mima Riera, David Vert and Ernest Villegas

  • To look at humanity’s challenges and offer solutions is the aim of a proposal with six productions, three colloquiums and two dramatized lectures

The climate crisis comes on the scene in the Sala Beckett starts this Wednesday with ‘Black Animal Sadness’, by the German Anja Hillinga co-production with the Spanish Theater of Madrid directed by Julio Manrique it opens the door to numerous disquisitions about what awaits us. The montage with a fantastic cast in the lead role Joan Amargós, Màrcia Cisteró, Mia Esteve, Norbert Martínez, Jordi Oriol, Mima Riera, David Vert and Ernest Villegas is one of the proposals related to climate change that the Poblenou Hall will present in the coming months as part of the ‘Persona Planeta’ series, carried out in collaboration with the University of Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Israel Rodríguez Giralt, a researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute specializing in social disasters, is the curator of this proposal who wants to look at the challenges facing humanity and provide solutions with six productions, three colloquiums and two dramatized lectures.

ruthless nature

Manrique defines “Black Animal Sadness” as “a shocking work”. The work speaks of the collective responsibility with the Earth, but also asks who we really are. To answer this, the author places her protagonists, successful urbanites, in front of a relentless nature. This is not a conventional piece. It has three industries and three different theatricalities in each. For Manrique, it’s like “an experiment” where “six characters go to hell.”

It shows how the idyllic outing to the forest of four men, two women and a baby turns into real hell after a fire breaks out. “The author’s words are very powerful, poetic and beautiful, and she approaches the most intimate things,” says the director. He wants the viewer to receive it as “a fist in the stomach”. The text mixes beauty and pain, it’s really like life itself.

Not many works of Hilling were seen in Catalonia. “La Beckett regains its facet as the gateway to the most powerful European textual dramaturgy,” says Toni Casares, director of the center, which specializes in contemporary works that have been waiting years to publish this 2007 piece. And he hopes the cycle is dedicated to our relationship with the planet helping to capture the young public “more aware of the topic”.

From gods to strangers

The cycle will continue with other contemporary works. ‘Drinking Immediate Earthly and Collective Total Salvation’, by Tim Crouch, from this Thursday and until February 20 is also not the typical work. In it, a family seeks answers to the disaster. Directed by Pau Roca, it invites the audience to read a book with the characters. ‘Demeter’, goddess of agriculture, the new immersion in Greek mythology of the Señor Serrano group (from 5 to 13 February), designed for audiences from 7 to 11 years old, is also part of the cycle, like the original ‘No saberm res del camp’, an intimate show with objects for only 10 spectators (from 24 to 11 years old) 27 February) February) and ‘Dels intestins una soca i del cul un sac de gemecs’, by Intimate Productions, which previously presented ‘Wasted’ and ‘Pool (No water)’. On this occasion, the company of Lleida offers a apocalyptic vision of the planet with giant insects and mollusks storming our homes and aliens who rape corpses.

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The program also includes ‘Paradise Flood. Lost Symphony ‘, a semi-montage by the Austrian Thomas Köck on globalization, and the dramatized reading of the text ‘SOS’ by Ada Vilaró and the open microphone for reading short texts written for the event on February 17th.

To counter apocalyptic visions, Beckett organized three conferences for a better future stand out ‘Challenge a time of disaster‘by Marta Puxan Oliva (PhD in Humanities), Manuel Tironi (Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology and the Institute for Sustainable Development of the Papal Catholic University of Chile), Sonia Ramos Chocobar (Lickanantay healer, worshiper and farmer) and Martin Savransky (Professor and coordinator of the Master in Ecology, Culture and Society of the Department of Sociology of Goldsmiths of the University of London).

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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