Titzina Teatro is a slow cooker company. This is how the director of the Beckett, Toni Casares, defines it. Formed by Diego Lorca and Pako Merino, they have created six shows in more than twenty years. But the slow, documented, careful elaboration is a sign of identity of these two artists. Now his latest production, Búho, is coming to the Beckett room, which is “a kind of road movie for a brain that has lost its memory”.
The road movie is the journey that the person whose memory has been affected has to take to recover it: “The story tells of Pablo, who loses his memory and with the daily work with the neuropsychologist we enter inside his mind, looking for who is. It is written as a thriller, by forcing yourself to find yourself. Layers of memory are recovered, but not everything is as it was”, declares Lorca.
And for this purpose, the two creators have done exhaustive documentation work, which Merino details: “There is the subsoil, the whole world that is underground. For memory we had the Institut Guttmann. For the underground we had the underground unit of the Mossos d'Esquadra. We have had four agents for two weeks to get to know the underground of Barcelona. There are also the youtubers that sneak into Barcelona and Madrid through these subsoils. Then there are the cave paintings and how you connect them with universal history, with humanity as a species. And we have also caving for 24 hours, without light inside a cave.”
From all this, Búho was born, a production by Titzina with the support of Sala Beckett, which is represented from April 19 to May 14, within the program of resident companies. The other company is Las Chatis de Montalbán, which premieres Derecho a tantrum, a work in Catalan with the subtitle La missió més trepidant de les Espies de veritat and which will be seen from April 26 to May 14.
Berta Prieto and Lola Rosales have created an anti-heroic piece, from cartoons with three superheroines that hit the Super3. The goal is to free yourself from the responsibility of saving the world. "The world is fatal, but it's not my fault," summarizes Casares.
"The work speaks of being very tired and breaking with this illusion of art and wanting to change things," says Prieto. "They gave us a ticket for being drunk at Bicing, and the police officer told us that everyone has the 'right to tantrum', but that they had to fine us anyway." Rosales adds: “We review our childhood references now that we are adults, and that is how we also talk about ourselves. Perhaps because of our age something more vindictive is expected, but we want to do humor ”, he concludes.
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