SenecioFicciones

Sara Molina in the company of Los hombres melancólicos

  • Performance
  • Premieres in Madrid
  • Country: Spain
  • Languages: Spanish, English, Arabic
  • Approximate duration: 1 hora and 45 minutos (sin intermedio)
  • Premiere: 2017
Director: Sara Molina
Lighting: Joaquín Cutillas
Image: Javier Vázquez
Lighting: Sylvie Mélis
Set design: Molina en compañía
Starring: Ahmed Benattia, Jesús Barranco, Enrique Martínez, Miguel Rojo, Andrés Montero and Cristian López Victorio

The Madrid performance of the play enjoys the support and collaboration of La Casa Encendida

Sara Molina is considered by many to be one of the doyennes of the avant-garde of Spanish theatre. Actress, playwright and director, the founder of the Q theatre company in 1995 (and its artistic director) has never shied away from her commitment to a philosophical theatre. In fact, she took her first steps in University theatre with classics like Pasolini, Kantor and Beckett. "My interest lies in provoking desire in the intellectual. The intellectual should not be completely separated from the emotional. I've always believed that they can't be separated. Thinking is performed by the body. I don't see the difference," she explained to Teatron magazine.

At the Autumn to Spring Festival she'll present her latest creation, Senecio Ficciones, which points to one of the constants of her work: the dramatization of theory. Built on the basis of a scheme of successive teachings (first, second and third teachings of the young Senecio, the harlequin of the famous Paul Klee painting). The piece reflects on a transcendental subject matter with intensity, humour and fanciful lyricism. How many types of ignorance exist among our young people? How many types if intelligence? What is the task in this age of excess? That of learning to be human again. To decide what it is to be human," says the creator, who defines her play as "six men on stage, six singularities who enter into an interrupted relationship: real appearances. That's why to say us is a crazy act. To say us is a promise, a demand, a hope”.

Initially trained by Albert Boadella (Els Joglars) and Zubics-Panadero (actors and dancers from the Pina Bausch company), the work of Sara Molina has always been marked by new languages and the performative, but without giving up on the lines of excellence. Her stand-out works as an author include Imperfecta armonía, Made in China and Mónadas . In addition to participating in different domestic and international theatre festivals like the Avignon Festival, the FIT in Cádiz and the Exhibition of Spanish Theatre by Contemporary Authors in Alicante. She also teaches at the Universities of Granada., Málaga, Cuenca and Barcelona

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