Irene Doher and El Primo de Saint-Tropez
| Creators and performers : | Irene Doher and El Primo de Saint-Tropez |
| Musical creator and performer: | Nacho Bilbao |
| Illustrator: | Marcel Domínguez |
| Stage plastics: | Antiel Jiménez |
| Video: | Paula Amor |
Irene’s heart stopped on 5 November 2018. Death came suddenly to her, but
she returned. She is 33 years old now.
El Primo de Saint Tropez, due to fear, has been preparing for death since
22 August 2004. He is 50 years old now.
Irene’s heart beats to the rhythm of electronic music That of El Primo de
Saint Tropez, at the tempo of a choir from a cloistered monastery.
El Primo and Irene imagine being confined to their own place of epiphany:
the monastery and the hospital, and they take as much time to respond as it
would take for an ordinary letter to arrive from Madrid to Las Batuecas.
Irene is El Primo's confessor, just as Saint Teresa had a confessor when
she described her various mystical experiences. El Primo is Irene's guide
on her return from death, as she fantasises that he was reading the Tibetan
Book of the Dead to her at that moment her body decided not to continue,
but to return to the place of meaning.
Two oposing paths
Irene from nothing to matter.
El Primo from matter to nothing.
El primo de Saint Tropez
Under this name, Jesús Barranco is currently researching the dialogue with
men and women living in the cloister. With this same heteronym, he
continues to create in the Na-Morada collective.
Trained with the master Ángel Gutiérrez, Jesús Barranco completed his
search for a personal poetics with other masters such as Luca Aprea, Sara
Molina, Claire Heggen, Marco A. de la Parra, José Luis Gómez and Domingo
Ortega. Since 2000 he has been a performer in the cast of the Teatro de La
Abadía and has participated in 13 productions under the orders of national
and international directors.
He is currently combining the tour of Quitamiedos (Crash barrier),
by Kulunka Teatro, with the creation of new pieces in the groups Armadillo,
[Los números imaginarios], Las Torneras, Juan Ayala / Annie Pui Ling Lok
and Transatlántico (Spain, Chile and Argentina). He is one of the founders
of the Blenamiboá company and was part of the research project on
performing arts Cities-Théâtre du Mouvement 1998-99 (Spain, France).
Irene Doher
Irene Domínguez is an actress and singer. She has a degree in Acting from
RESAD (2014) and a degree in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication from
the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2010). Since she finished her
training, she has worked as an actress in the companies [Los números
imaginarios], Livianas Provincianas, Viviseccionados and La Finea Teatro.
With [Los números imaginarios] she has staged Lear: disappear
(2019), Sons of Greece (2018), The last night of Don Juan
(2017) and Hamlet among everyone (2016). With Livianas
Provincianas, her most personal project, she has performed the piece He is my man (2016) and she is currently working in the creation
of The tastiest fruit. Together with Viviseccionados, she has
staged the show 4,2 (2017). And with La Finea Teatro, she has
participated in Death of appetite (2016).
She has also participated in the performances Just before the flapping
(Cuarta Pared, 2019), Shoot, Get Treasure, Repeat (Frinje 2015) and Oh,
love! (Teatro de la Zarzuela 2013). In 2018 she took part in the Movistar+
series Arde Madrid (2018), as Natalia Figueroa.