Humor in the theaters of Barcelona: La Cubana, ‘El sopar dels idiotes’ and ‘The opera locos’

Cubana has opened these jewels offering a small tasting of its comedy ‘Adeu Arturo’, his ultimate creation. It is located in the pedestrian zone of Gran Via, obliging to stop the traffic in the lateral part of the Coliseum Theater. Decorated with huge images of guacamayo that were shown as a protagonist of the show, the 11 actors and five extras he surpassed those who circled or passed through the zone. The colorful cloakroom of the performers has little to show for a funeral at the uso. ‘Adeu Arturo’ invites you to take part in a big event: the passing of a famous and polyfacetic artist, Arturo Cirera Mompou, failed in the 101 years giving an important artistic legacy and an immense fortune. Organized by La Cubana, the suyo will not be a conventional funeral without an alegre celebration and a line of surprises from the guacamayo, the mascot that accompanies the last 40 years, there will be a lot of games. The mount will take place in a cartel only four months, from February 2 to May 22.

“This work is different from what we have presented just now,” said Jordi Milán, director of the company. This is the first Cuban piece to train in Barcelona and retrieve other cities once the reverse truck is in place. First training in Valencia in 2018, initiated a season and temporary season in Madrid on March 8, 2019 through the paralysis of all activity and the rise of covid. The altercation pandemic also has plans to train two years in the Catalan capital, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the training company that has seduced a very large public with popular songs such as ‘Cómeme el coco negro’ and ‘Cegada de amor’ . Now, having celebrated 40 + 1 with an exhibition at Sitges, ‘Adeu Arturo’ is in the final of the very different tray section as an emcee. “We adapted the piece to Catalan and we changed it very well”. Among other aspects, he observed with the magnifying glass protocols to be able to maintain the participation of the public, even if it is in the DNA of the company. “We’re much inverted in this spectacle. As if we were on the rock of death,” Milan concludes.

It is not easy to surprise the public when a tray directory is dilated. El reto es cada vez más mayor. “In the background we always have the same thing: to make a point in the theater that we all do in the contemporary life with a spectacle full of music, elegance and color”, Milan said, the Palau Robert to offer the next year the show ‘Del no res al 2021’, with 20,000 visits in Sitges.

Theatrical architecture

Since the Tricicle, Paco Mir concentrates on his work as director and theatrical adapter. El Borràs, donde hace mucho staba Carles Sans, su companion en Tricicle, estrena este jueves una versionna versedia de ‘El sopar del idiotes’, a popular work by the Frenchman Francis Veber which has triumphed in the tables and in the cinema.

Its protagonist is a character who is willing to divide at the expense of others inviting each other, some stratum algae gathered to resurrect him with his friends. “There has been no action in Barcelona since 20 years ago and we want to retrieve a little bit to make it more digestible because we change everything,” comments Mir. “He eliminated all that there is no sum, that he has no grace”, added in reference, among other assents, to the tertiary machista.

Pep Anton Gómez directs the work what is with David Olivares, a resident of the ‘Polonia’ program, in the paper of prepaid empresario y con el polifacético Artur Busquets, as the most important object of a burla that turns. Complete the report Anna Gras, Toni González, Jordi Vidal Gómez and Ariana Bruguera. “It’s an incombustible work and the test of bombs because its theatrical architecture has everything to do with it,” says Mir satisfied with the chemistry of the protagonist. “Although it is easy to make comedy, it is very difficult. In this work, one has to pay close attention to the replies and can not take the guard for a moment during a hour and minutes.”

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