What happens when some pixapins go on a weekend to see some friends who have become neo-rural? The clichés flourish proudly: quality of life, clean air... What the pixapins don't know is that their friends have accidentally overheard the conversation they were having while driving to see them... and they were too lazy to visit!
It's been twenty years since Carol Greep's I Like Everything You Do has been successfully staged in Paris, with more than 1.8 million viewers. "It's boulevard theatre", explains Toni Albaladejo, the producer of Anexa who is now bringing it to the Aquitània theatre.
The adapter and director Edu Pericas premiered it in 2009 and wanted to do it again. But it needed to be updated and retouched, because there were jokes "that can no longer stand today and that can be offensive", he declares: "We gave it a good rinse, while in Paris they continue to do it like the first day ".
"It was a more upbeat comedy and now it's more traditional, where the good guys aren't that good and the bad guys aren't that bad," he continues. "To what extent is it necessary to tell us everything to our faces? Perhaps those who live on farms are not so much farmers, but rather like these neo-rurals that have emerged from the pandemic, a fact that is now more common. It's a phenomenon that has also occurred because the internet has allowed it."
On the misunderstanding that ignites the comedy, Pericas reflects: "I think this can happen to all of us, because you go to a family lunch and you can be lazy, but you don't need to explain it".
Pericas defends the need for comedy on the Catalan billboard: "Comedies produce a communion with the public". And Albaladejo adds: "We need comedies. The comedy actor is more complete because he has to make people laugh and know how to deceive the audience”.
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 the 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's not a feminist work, but we did modernize it because the first version wouldn't hold up".
I like everything you do, by the French playwright Carole Greep, premieres on March 17 at the Aquitània theater in Barcelona and will be performed there until May 21.
