Teatre Nacional de Catalunya SA – Barcellona, Spagna
Lara Díez Quintanilla
Sistema Pervers / Perverse System
A dysfunctional family where the parents, SYSTEM and PERVERSE, along with their children ADDICTION, EATING DISORDER, DEPRESSION, and SCHIZOPHRENIA engage in heated arguments about their frustrations and conflicts as individuals and as a family. A daily meeting that leads to disagreements and conflicts. A cacophony of persistent voices that leave no room for breathing. Are we in a dining room or in a mental space where psychological failures take form and come to life?
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La Comèdie de Reims, Francia
Alexis Mullard
Fun Facts
Through a series of thirty-two so-called “fun facts,” the text revisits some troubled periods of history seen through the lens of the adolescents of the time. From a Bronze Age cave to the Black Death in London, passing through the Early Middle Ages, the 17th and 19th centuries, the text is a portrait of suicide in worlds at war, facing epidemics and climatic events. Blending reality and fiction, this fragmentary text adopts an ironic, absurd style full of dark humor.
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Emilia Romagna Teatro Italy
Tolja Djoković
The Vanishing Boy
What happens when disappearance is no longer a trick to be revealed, but a real absence to be questioned?
The Vanishing Boy is a one- act text that explores the art of illusion to address issues related to young on mental health.
The art of magic becomes a device for revelation: the famous vanishing trick- an astonishing technical marvel- turns, in the text, into a cruel allusion to the desire to disappear. And the audience’s distraction, a fundamental rule of illusionism, speaks to us of a collective gaze that is unfocused, overwhelmed by distractions, and unable to see.
Thus, a boy who disappears is both a well-executed trick and the reflection of a society that views youth in a blurred, intermittent way- just another image to be consumed.
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