Rodrigo García / Humain trop humain – CDN Montpellier
| Script, stage design and staging: | Rodrigo García |
| Cast: | Gonzalo Cunill, Núria Lloansi, Juan Loriente and Juan Navarro (with the participation of two young guests) |
| Assistant director: | John Romão |
| Lighting: | Sylvie Mélis |
| Video creation: | Serge Monségu, Daniel Romero and Ramón Diago |
| Sound creation: | Daniel Romero, Serge Monségu and Juan Navarro |
| Digital creation: | Daniel Romero |
| Costume design: | Marie Delphin |
| Production partner: | Humain trop humain - CDN Montpellier |
| Co-produced by: | Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers CDN, Festival d’Automne à Paris, La Maison de la Culture d’Amiens - Centre européen de création et de production, Théâtre de Liège and Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy |
| Thanks to the soap factory: | Le Fer à Cheval – Marseille |
| Assistant director: | John Romão |
“The plays of Rodrigo García continue to achieve that complex and fascinating alchemy between the mordacity and the harshness of criticism, philosophical questions and a redemptive mood and comedy”.Artezblai
After his revolutionary Muerte y reencarnación en un cowboy (Death and Reincarnation as a Cowboy) (2010) and Daisy (2015), the always interesting and controversial Rodrigo García once again visits the Festival de Otoño a Primavera with 4, which hits the Teatros del Canal’s Sala Verde in June. With a refined language, Rodrigo García’s writing exalts our fears and our inertia, poking fun at what angers and annoys us with a rage-filled poetry, tender and naked. His scripts and sharp writing demonstrates his bewilderment at the absurdity of daily life as he strives to break down the walls of ignorance of a society he considers monstrous.
In 4, the artist tells the story of an accumulation of bells, coyote heads, movements with soapy clothes, record players with Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, roosters roosting as they please, worms trapped by carnivorous plants, nine-year-old girls, samurai, cartoons, football stadium lights and drones that bring dreams into the city in the form of musical bells.
Born in Argentina in 1964 but living in Spain from a young age, Rodrigo García is more than just a playwright. Videographer, performer and stage director, this atypical artist combines elements of the past and modern popular culture in his shows, creating a unique and always surprising theatrical language that he once again brings to Madrid in June.
4 premiered at the CDN in Montpellier in November 2015. Before landing in Madrid for the XXXIV Festival de Otoño a Primavera, 4 was staged in Spain in September 2016 at the Festival TNT in Terrassa.