Temporada Alta is revving up its engines and has already advanced the 16 productions and co-productions it will schedule for the autumn edition. There are 11 Catalan authors, such as the new proposal by Oriol Pla and Pau Matas, the architects of Travy, who are now working in Gola.
Pla explains the process of creating this hybrid show, “always with the humor that characterizes us”: “We have been together with Pau for years, first with music. We came from a more choral work and wanted to go to the essence and that’s why we wanted to do a show for a single performer. We came up with the throat as a place to savor the pleasures, this greed of today’s society to have everything in this void”. Although gluttony is a deadly sin, Pla and Matas declare that, as of now, they have no intention of making them all thirsty.
Among the Catalan productions, some co-produced with theaters such as TNC, Lliure la Beckett or Heartbreak Hotel, at the autumn festival Cristina Plazas will give voice to the novel Pura passió, by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, adapted and directed by Lucia del Greek Playwright Jordi Casanovas will take the audience, around fifty people, to a house so that they can experience a horror story in There’s a house far away. Cabosanroque’s proposal, El castor que plorava, an adaptation of Calderón, is also minimalist, for only 30 or 40 people.
Aina Tur will premiere the work that won the 17th Quim Masó prize, Six hectares of olive trees, with Anna Alarcón and Nao Albet as performers in this drama about phobias. And Albert Prat, although he would prefer not to, will be Melville’s Bartleby, adapted and directed by Llàtzer Garcia. The Unstoppables theatrically experiment with drugs in Caramel, asking why people want to change the natural perception of things. And, among other proposals, José y sus Hermanas will present Morir lo hace todo el mundo, about fear of the future and uncertainty.
In the international arena, Romeo Castellucci will direct Isabelle Huppert playing Bérénice, based on Racine, in a show that can only be seen in the theaters or festivals around the world that have co-produced it. In the case of Spain, only in High Season. Marcos Morau and La Veronal will also be present in Girona with a reflection on the historical concept of the dance of death, with Totentanz – Morgen ist die Frage. And Jan Lauwers will direct Gonzalo Cunill in the text Un sublime error, in which he talks, as is usual with the Flemish author, about loneliness.
As the icing on the cake, Gabriel Calderón’s text Història d’un senglar (or something by Ricard) will be presented in Avinyó from July 12. The actor Joan Carreras will have the honor of performing at the Provençal festival the first play with an entire text in Catalan. In addition, Angélica Liddell, a regular artist at Temporada Alta, where she has premiered the last shows, will be in charge of opening the Avinyó Festival on June 29 with Dämon. Bergman’s funeral.
