On this occasion, the Catalan group led by Tomàs Aragay and Sofía Asencio presents a word-free piece from the neologism of the title: hammamturgia. On the one hand, the device we commonly associate with Arab or Ottoman inheritance, which has given us an architectural legacy for socialising, pleasure and cleanliness. On the other, dramaturgy, or the skill of weaving a tale in tale from an encounter between forces whose energy creates a transformative movement forward.

According to the company, hammamturgia would end up becoming the other to dramaturgy. ‘Although its origins are different – they explain – there is a nexus between the hammam and drama, a significant relationship. While in drama, the work is produced “by someone”, in the hammam, it’s the heat that produces the work. Hammanturgia has no author, when interpreted dramaturgically, but instead is linked to ‘happening’, with something that occurs, that which operates the change.

We shouldn’t take that about hammam literally, so don’t bring your swim costume or worry about your glasses steaming up with the steam. The audience enters a large white cube barefoot and everyone will pick their spot in the space. There are four openings in each side of the cube through which to enter and exit, and also four performers executing the actions, imbuing the plastic sheets of different sizes, colours and textures with life, making the metamorphosis of the material subjected to movement palpable. Unexpected humour, paradox, beauty and poetry, ablutions in the always-changing future of a river that, although the same, never gives you the same bathing experience.