A play is being performed at the Lliure de Gràcia that begins like this: “How long has it been since they told you a story?” This phrase already predisposes us to get carried away by the adventures of a pair of young people, Titània and Osset, who one night escape from a carnival dance in a garden in Sant Gervasi.
In El dia que vam matar llops Lucía Miranda directs a group of performers who have graduated from the Escola Superior d’Art Dramàtic in the sixth edition of the IT Teatre project, with the support of the Teatre Lliure. The basis on which they have worked on the dramaturgy collectively is the short narrative of Mercè Rodoreda. But they don't limit themselves to taking a story and performing it from start to finish, but during the hour and twenty that the show lasts they go through a lot of stories. The dreamlike atmosphere, of magic and fantasy, transports us to the stories that are told to children when they go to sleep, but, let's not forget, this is Rodoreda: there will not be a drop of sugar and difficult topics will be raised. explain to a child, like death. It could be that of the mother of a teddy bear, who is left alone, or the death of the red-haired striped cat: “Every dead cat has a child who mourns it.” There are many types of wolves, and if we want to hunt one, “the best thing would be to tell it a story.”
Titània and the Osset will meet the broken pepona, the lost girls who walk with only one shoe, the lullaby singer at odd hours or the word hunter, who collects them for his daughter in case she needs them one day.
Among the textual and musical references that the artistic team adds of their own, very well woven with Rodoreda's words and characters, there are some that are very current, from his young world, and others that link with the tradition of a rumba by Gato Pérez or from Qualsevol nit pot sortir del sol by Jaume Sisa. A freshness that is not at odds with reclaiming the art that has preceded them. Apart from enjoying this piece, the most important thing is that, with these new graduates in dramatic art, the replacement is well assured.
