What happens when some weekenders go one weekend to see some friends who have become neo-rural? Topics flourish everywhere: quality of life, clean air... What the weekenders don't know is that their friends have overheard the conversation they were having while they were driving to see them... and they were too lazy to visit! !
For twenty years, M'agrada tot el que fas, by Carol Greep, has been performed in Paris with success, with more than 1.8 million viewers. “It's boulevard theater”, clarifies Toni Albaladejo, the producer of Anexa who now takes her to the Aquitània theater.
The adapter and director Edu Pericas released it in 2009 and wanted to do it again. But it was necessary to update and touch it up, because there were jokes "that today can no longer stand and could be offensive", he declares: "We have given it a good rinse, while in Paris they continue to do it like the first day".
“It was a higher comedy and now it's more costumbrist, where the good guys aren't so good and the bad guys aren't so bad,” he continues. “To what extent do you have to tell us everything to our faces? Perhaps those who live in the town are not so much from the countryside, but rather are those neo-rurals that have emerged with the pandemic, a now more frequent trend. It is a phenomenon that has also occurred because the internet has allowed it”.
Regarding the misunderstanding that ignites the comedy, Pericas reflects: "I think that this can happen to all of us, because you go to a family meal and it can make you lazy, but you don't have to explain it."
Pericas defends the need for comedy on the Catalan billboard: "In comedies there is a communion with the public." And Albaladejo adds: “We need comedies. The comedy actor is more complete because he has to make the public laugh and know how to deceive ”.
Maria Garrido, Jori Soriano, Elías Torrecillas and Nesa Vidaurrázaga are the four performers who bring this situation to life. Regarding the fact of telling or not telling the truth to your face, Soriano's character says in the play: "It's not hypocrisy, it's courtesy." And Garrido believes that the adaptation was necessary: "Now it is not a feminist work, but we have modernized it because the first version would not hold up."
I like everything you do, by the French playwright Carole Greep, premieres on March 17th at the Aquitània theater in Barcelona and will be performed until May 21st.
Catalan version, here
