The definition has been given by the theater director Roger Bernat, who premieres La scelta in the High Season: “In Italy they differentiate between prose theater and art theater”, in reference to the groundbreaking productions that converge this week at the autumn festival of Girona, in the programmers’ week, with 60 professionals from nine countries.
On Thursday it will be Rodrigo García, who already debuted in Season Alta ten years ago, who will premiere his new piece, with “a new team, younger than the one that has normally worked” with him. His new proposal is titled Christ is on Tinder (El Canal, 16 / XI, 8 p.m., Salt).
The Argentine director is fascinated by social networks, although he lives outside of their operation. “There has been a change in my work, which is more reflective and I no longer have so many emergencies,” he explains.
“The new generations are surprising in the way they work,” García continues. “I worked with them just as I had done with my lifelong actors. I give them a lot of freedom and responsibility, so some interpreted it as me not knowing what I wanted. But that environment of fragility created a very interesting atmosphere of creativity.”
The Argentine creator seems surprised by what is happening today: “The theme arises from how absorbed the current imbecility leaves me. At about 60 years old, I have spent half my life without a mobile phone. The nonsense stayed in your town, and now everyone knows them on the spot.
Friday is the day Roger Bernat will premiere. In his work La scelta, the creator gives the power to the public to program a show that he must choose from among nine theatrical proposals (Sala La Planeta, 17 / XI, 10 p.m., Girona).
“More than democratizing the theater, what interested me was to get closer to the most hidden part of the theatrical world, that of the programmers,” says Bernat, who remembers that during the 20th century many works have shown how to rehearse, but no one has come close. to the work of programmers.
“I visited different Italian festivals and asked to attend the deliberations of the programmers,” he continues. one of them”.
“The work of programming is not scientific: there is the weight of ideology, no one chooses freely. The public is a great actor, but it is not a good author.” And he concludes: “There is a commitment on the part of the festival to program the chosen work in the next edition.”
On Saturday comes the long-awaited new show by Angélica Liddell, about whom this newspaper already reported extensively this Sunday, with statements to La Vanguardia by the creator of Vudú (3318) Blixen (Teatre de Salt, 6-7/XI, 4 p.m. ).
And Sunday is Marina Otero day. After Fuck me last year and before Kill me next year, the Argentine artist premieres Love me, a creation that she has featured with Martín Flores Cárdenas (Sala La Planeta, 19 / XI, 12:30 and 6 p.m., Girona).
“Love me has a different format and is the first one we created between two of us,” explains Otero. “It was a creation during a pandemic, almost clandestine, when in Argentina you couldn’t leave the house, and the work is a solo that I had pending, in the one who is always on stage”.
“The new work has to do with love or, above all, with the need to be loved. This piece is an update after living 38 years in my country and two years in Spain.” The work is more contained than the previous one: “There is the need to make a change and not travel through already known places. The sound component for 45 minutes is silence, but with the projected text, which people have to read, which They are my own thoughts,” he concludes.
This week, Estación Alta has programmed many more works, which are not premieres in the country, but which are very attractive proposals, which have the favor of the public and, as the organization hopes, of the foreign programmers who visit the festival.
