In February 1993, in Liverpool, two ten-year-old boys, Jon and Robert, kidnapped and brutally killed a two-year-old boy. Becoming one of the most media-driven cases of the time in England, where the killers were tried as adults, the Bulger case has dragged on over time, generating news, many of them with little credibility, but also a novel, a movie, a TV series, a pop song and a lot of truculent documentaries.
Now, with the title Dirrrty boys, it comes to the theater, with the dramaturgy of Gerard Guix and the direction of Àgata Casanovas of the company Las Bestias, which resumes the case and does a deep research work on the consequences of the acts, imagining how the life of the murderers must be until the present, waiting for the news to, if necessary, add a new scene when the current situation requires it.
Premiered at the Akademia theater a couple of years ago, L’Off La Villarroel’s programming now brings back Dirrrty boys, this moving piece of documentary theater, which has been recognized with several awards, especially for its two performers, two young actors in full tune: Martí Cordero and Sergi Espina. The performances are offered in matinees at 12.30pm on Saturdays and Sundays, and on Monday evenings at 8pm.
Dirrrty boys is what today is called a theatrical true crime, which mainly talks about second chances.
