Buxman Producciones y Kamikaze Producciones
www.buxmanproducciones.com y www.kamikaze-producciones.es
| Dramaturgy and Direction: | Pascal Rambert |
| Cast: | Bárbara Lennie e Israel Elejalde |
| Translation and Adaptation: | Coto Adánez |
| Set Design: | Eduardo Moreno |
| Lighting Design: | Pau Fullana |
| Costume Design: | Sandra Espinosa |
| Hair Stylist: | Clara Gortázar |
| Road Manager: | Léa Béguin |
| Production Assistant: | Pablo Ramos |
| Production Management: | Jordi Buxó y Aitor Tejada |
| Photography: | Fede Serra |
With collaboration by Miguel del Arco
Produced by Buxman Producciones and Kamikaze Producciones, co-produced with the 33rd Festival de Otoño a Primavera of the Community of Madrid and the Grec 2015 Barcelona Festival.
French playwright and director Pascal Rambert directs his most staged play for the first time in Spanish. It is the chronicle of a couple’s breaking up, written at his professional height.
The audience at the 2011 Avignon Festival was breathless when it witnessed the premiere of playwright and director Pascal Rambert’s brand new staging. In the text written and directed by him, he put a couple through a sentimental break up, a harsh conversation in which the two characters uttered monologues at each other expressing the violence of a love in its process of decease. Fear and liberation mix in the couple’s harrowing discussion, a merciless, devastating combat between a man and a woman that manages to keep intensity until the last lines. Rambert himself has directed different stagings of the play in several countries. This time he deals with Bárbara Lennie and Israel Elejalde, two performers from the Kamikaze family.
What do we actually love when we love? What do we refer to when we talk about love? Bárbara Lennie and Israel Elejalde (who already teamed up, among other projects, in Miguel del Arco’s version of The Misanthrope one of the last years’ most celebrated works in Spanish theatre) get into the skin of two lovers who word after word confront and pierce each other in an attempt to close forever a relationship that has built and destroyed them for several years. Elejalde deploys a precise, surgical and torrential language. Lennie conveys a somewhat more tender and passionate though equally devastating vision of the relationship. Accurately written by French playwright Pascal Rambert, La Clausura del Amor (Love’s End) is a symphony of heartbreak and love withdrawal syndrome, a setting of scores of the heart, a stab in the guts seeking to tear apart what once promised to be eternal. The audience discovers a beautiful though often violent perception of love in the play, awed by a love tragedy, a dissertation about the traps of sex, tenderness and love. La Clausura del Amor shows a moving face to face between two of the most solid performers in the Spanish artistic scene. A couple ends its love, captivates and absorbs us. That’s what Love’s End is.
The Spanish premiere of the play took place at Barcelona’s Grec Festival in July 2015.