“What characterises Pont Flotant is its capacity to endow mundane objects with emotion”.

El País

"One day we took camping tents to work. There, inside, we relived moments from other camping trips, in other times. We began to feel like a group of life-long friends. Then somebody proposed that we get out of the theatre to really camp out in the mountain. But before that, we decided to rehearse, to make a camping simulation". This is how Pont Flotant presents their new stage adventure which will be available to audiences in November 2019 at the 37th Autumn Festival.

Founded in 2000, Pont Flotant has become one of Spain's most reputed theatre companies, thanks to its personal manner of comprehending the stage and its luminous way of looking at life. Away from more commercial parameters, the works by Àlex Cantó, Joan Collado, Jesús Muñoz and Pau Pons are the result of a collective creative process that is characterised by a clear desire to search and reflect on new forms of communication, contemporary theatre expressions, the artist's physical work and their relationship with the viewer.

In almost two decades of existence, this troupe from Valencia has staged their middle-age crises, their fear of growing up, their doubts on paternity, with intimate and fun-filled montages in national and international venues, inviting the audience to open up their own hearts. They have naturally established close ties with their viewers. In their shows, actors chat with the viewers, tell their fortunes and desires and make them participants in the game. We've had abiding memories of shows such as Like stones (2008), A few good people (2013), Exercises in love (2016) and The child I wish to have (2017), among many others.

In line with their work which builds relations with communities, during the last Autumn Festival, Pont Flotant started the theatre laboratory Otras InCapacidades, in order to explore some aspects of functional diversity and jointly reflect on the concept of capacity, what incapacitates us and on the differences that unite and separate us due to these "incapacities".

Teachers, psychologists and artists from different fields such as dance, music or conceptual art, collaborated in the learning and research process. Those meetings and training sessions set the ethical and artistic foundations of Acampada, Pont Flotant's new offering which it brings to Sala Cuarta Pared in order to "demonstrate the value of stage creation as a force for reflection and relating to social connections in all their diversity" as stated by the company.

Acampada is a simulation, a sort of what might happen if six friends with different physical and psychological capacities from different cultural backgrounds were to spend a weekend together in the wild. How would their surroundings affect their capacities? Would they be able to overcome or accept their own incapacities? And of others? Would they be able to awaken their capacity to adapt, to read the world in the languages of others?

Acampada is a fragile experiment because it requires the audience to complete it, to hear beyond the noise, to understand beyond words, to imagine that which is beyond sight. Acampada is also a simulation of a work for all audiences where humour, emotion, language and different stage codes serve to establish authentic channels of communication and encounters between multiple cognitive, sensorial and emotional capacities.

Accessible sign language function.

Practical information

• Sala Cuarta Pared
• 22 & 23 November, 21.00