Those who understand say that, for a language to be complete, it must be present in all areas. Whoever expresses this idea usually uses pornography as an example of the normality sought with respect to the Catalan language. It is known that in this film genre dialogues are scarce. But here it is also important that a language has its presence.
This season, the Center de les Arts Lliures of the Fundació Joan Brossa has programmed three works by Queralt Riera, a playwright who has made her debut in style. Pruna has just been released, about sexual abuse and catharsis, but since this section is about linguistic curiosities, I will focus on the previous one, which finished performances last week and will go on tour. I am referring to Jo porn, your porno, directed by Magda Puyo and performed by Alba Sáez and Encarni Sánchez.
This pair of actresses tell me the intensity that it takes for them to carry out the show: they act as a couple and one is a porn actress. The work is not a plea against pornography, but against a type of sexist and raping pornography, where women are only sexual objects.
Focusing on the language, Riera's treatment caught my attention. Often, in fictional dialogues the tendency to use Castilianisms is high, too high. There are those who justify it by the verisimilitude, by how people talk on the street. You have to remember that everything is a convention. The people who play a role on stage are not what they say they are, and we believe it. That is why it is not necessary for the Catalan language to carry all the verisimilitude of the work on its own. Nothing is real, everything is convention. Also the language. That's why I get up from my chair to applaud the linguistic options that Riera has chosen in Jo porn, your porno.
Between words like xones, patates, carquinyolis, mammalam, cigales, titoles, fica-treu, escorrese, eixarrancar se I copy a phrase that reflects this richness and respect for the language, which Queralt Riera declares that he has for Catalan, the Spanish and English, las lenguas con las que trabaja: "A tou of men massage her and swallow her, and touch her and entangle her, inside the room or inside the eye of the ass, and they salt her with the tongues and they slip over or into the holes, or wherever they can, and now one and now the other, and the other. And the other one who had previously put a finger in her ass now rubs the crayfish in the middle of her thighs as if he was numbing her."
If you want to know more, follow the tour of Jo porn, your porno or read the book Teatre reunit by Queralt Riera (Arola Editors), recently published: a filigree at the service of performing art.
Catalan version, here
