Pablo Fidalgo Lareo
www.pablofidalgo.com
| Text and direction: | Pablo Fidalgo Lareo |
| Performed by: | Cláudio da Silva |
| Lighting design: | José Álvaro Correia |
| Sound design: | Coolgate (João Galante) |
| Piano: | Ásia Rosa |
| Music: | Corrandes d’exili by Lluis Llach; Alfonsina y el mar by Ane Brun; Mulemba Xangola by Bonga, Marisa Monte and Carlinhos Brown |
| Technician: | Nuno Figueira |
| Artistic support and production assistant: | Amalia Area |
| Production and dissemination: | Carla Nobre Sousa / Materiais Diversos |
| A show co-produced by: | Maria Matos Municipal Theatre (Lisbon), TNT Festival (Terrasa, Catalonia), BAD Festival (Bilbao) and the Festival de Otoño a Primavera (Community of Madrid) |
| With the support of: | Espaço Alkantara (Lisbon) |
| Presented in Portugal with the support of: | Mostra Espanha 2015 |
| Special thanks to: | Nené Lareo, Patricia Cerviño Lareo, Polo Madueño, Adolfo Carlos Oroz Municipal Historical Archive (Puerto de Santa Cruz, Argentina), Arquivo da Emigración Galega (Galician Emigration Archive) and the Historical Memory Recuperation Commission of A Coruña (Galicia) |
‘To my beloved brother Manolo, with yearning for the years and the distance’.
This inscription in an origami manual titled Papirozoo, found by Pablo Fidalgo Lareo on a bookshelf in his house, is the beginning of You’ll have to Go to the War that Starts Today. It is the start of a reconstruction process of his family and of Spain. The beginning of his discovery of the fascinating character of his great-uncle Giordano Lareo: imprisoned during the Civil War, exiled after barely escaping his execution, and also a professor, translator, treasurer for the Republican Government in exile, representative of Nestlé in the Patagonia, inventor of a convertible sofa-bed and author of Argentina’s first origami manual. In this piece, which is at the same time an encounter and a final dance, Giordano Lareo will be brought to life. Argentina, the land of exile, will be the place to prepare for the war, to put ideas safe from repression, a place to educate one’s point of view for an infinite landscape which will accompany us until the end.
Author and director Pablo Fidalgo is one of the most interesting voices in Portuguese contemporary theatre. You’ll Have to Go to the War that Starts Today is a staged biography in which the Galician artist speaks about the process of reconstruction of not only his family’s History, but also of that of our country’s, Spain.
Portugal´s newspaper Diario Publico has recently chosen the piece as the Best Theatre Show of Portugal in 2015. Its world premiere took place at the TNT Festival of Terrasa on October 1st, 2015. Before its Madrid premiere at the Sala Cuarta Pared theatre as part of the Festival de Otoño a Primavera, the play could be seen in Spain at the Escena Abierta Festival in Burgos (Castile and León) in January 2016.