Carlota Ferrer and José Manuel Mora
| Text: | José Manuel Mora |
| Starring: | Carlota Ferrer and Enrique Sastre |
| With the special collaboration of: | Antonio Montana |
| Coach: | Eusebio Poncela |
| Lighting: | David Picazo |
| Stage area: | Carlota Ferrer and Miguel Delgado |
| Sculptures and stage setup: | Miguel Delgado |
| Choreography: | Olga Pericet, Daniel Abreu and Ana Erdozain |
| Costume design: | Carlota Ferrer |
| Sound design: | Sandra Vicente |
| Assistant director: | Enrique Sastre |
| Graphic design: | Luis Camafreita |
| Production director: | Fernando Valero |
| Draft.inn management: | Gabriel J. Rodríguez |
| Production: | Prevee - Draft.inn |
| Distribution: | Clara Pérez |
“A woman of integral theatre capable of personifying a theatrical concept that brings together different disciplines”.Extract from the jury's decision for the 2015 Theatre Critics' Award
Preguntando al universo
(Asking the universe) is an original creation that, in line with all the
works by the theatrical duo of playwright José Manuel Mora and director,
actress and choreographer Carlota Ferrer, combines theatre and performance
art, music and dance, in an amalgamation of strong aesthetic and emotional
impacts that seek the secret unity between the arts; this surreptitious
emotional thread that runs through the piece from the beginning to the end
and requires crossing over disciplines, as if the use of just one proved
insufficient to depict the exact nature of the artistic experience that the
creators wish to share. The unending search for an instant of beauty in the
chaos that reigns over the universe. The chaos that is a requirement for
creation. The aesthetic representation of mystery. The mystery of life.
These are the topics that Mora and Ferrer approach in Asking the universe, their latest venture to be released for the
first time at the 38th Autumn Festival.
Asking the universe
is an art and sound installation inspired by the cosmos and the Pythagorean
theory of harmony of the spheres. It is also an artist's workshop, a
minimalist space that transforms into a baroque “horror vacui”. It houses
elements of Roman mythology that become the remnants of Christian
iconography, kitsch, pop art and Japanese art.
The multidisciplinary artist Carlota Ferrer and the author José Manuel Mora
undress themselves in this new show through a fiction with shades of
metaphysics and ecology, where they turn their gaze backwards to show us
the intimate nature of a creative process that seeks to discern the roots
of their artistic poetry and simultaneously looks for the origins of the
world they inhabit, with its contradictions, uncertainties and modern-day
problems. During the lockdown, in the countryside and far from the city,
Carlota Ferrer has gathered a series of materials from Nature, in a search
for beauty and spirituality that delves into the classics and the crafts to
recover poetry and mystery, and converses with time that changes its pace
but never stops.