La tristura
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| A stage play by: | La tristura |
| Created and written by: | Itsaso Arana and Celso Giménez |
| Performed by: | Itsaso Arana, Fernanda Orazi and Pablo Und Destruktion |
| Set design: | Ana Muñiz |
| Sound design: | Eduardo G. Castro |
| Lighting design and technical direction: | Eduardo Vizuete |
| Technical assistant | Roberto Baldinelli |
| Photography and graphic design | Mario Zamora |
| General Assistant | Violeta Gil |
| Communication | Paloma Fidalgo and Israel Paredes |
| International distribution | Claudio Ponzana |
| Produced by: | La tristura, Las Naves Espai de Creació and the Festival de Otoño a Primavera of the Community of Madrid |
| A production with collaboration by: | Tafalla Kulturgunea, Teatro Pradillo y Centro Dramático Nacional |
| Special thanks to: | José Álvarez Rilla, Ventura Anciones, Nerea Arana, Roberto Baldinelli, Angelines Baztan, Natalia Díaz, Raúl Espert, Irene García, José María García, José Giménez, Antonio Iniesta, Víctor Iriarte, Carlos Marquerie, Miryam Pedrero, Emilio Rivas, María Jesús Zamora y Arantza Zurutuza |
‘Revolution has to be reconsidered. More than changing the world, as Marx said, it is life that must be changed, as said Rimbaud. We should advance towards situational micropolitics. Guy Debord and the situationists were perfectly aware of this. We have to change the way of perceiving the world’. Leopoldo María Panero
‘We imagine a young man who for years has hesitated about going on a journey. Maybe due to fear, maybe to incapacity, or maybe because he has never found the moment. On that trip he will try to find answers concerning his identity. An identity of which there are no traces left ever since he was born towards the end of the 70s. Now, when the road movie begins, is when he is starting his search. During this journey, he will find himself in situations which will gradually reveal to him his own history and that of his country’. This is how Celso Giménez and Itsaso Arana, members of La tristura, introduce their last adventure onstage, titled CINE. Considered as one of the most interesting and transgressor Spanish companies of last decade’s contemporary theatre (critics have said that ‘it has the most beautiful images and the crudest texts’), La tristura returns to the stage in April within the 33rd Edition of the Festival de Otoño a Primavera. And they do so with a play which they themselves consider almost like a “new debut”, the starting point of their maturity once having turned 30.
Cine (from Greek Kine) etymologically means movement. As the piece’s own creators state, this new piece by La tristura appeals to courage, voyage and movement. To the search of an identity from an absolutely intimate place but with political consequences’. And they continue: ‘CINE is born from the desire to explore the secret route between telescopic and microscopic points of view. A continuation in the quest for intimate narration, regarding micropolitics and the places where great and insignificant things meet and connect’.