La Calòrica is an admirable company in many ways. One of their virtues is to keep all their productions alive since 2010. Now they return with Fairfly, which they stage in the new Espai Texas, but of which they will have to interrupt the performances for some days due to previous commitments, such as going to Seville with Feisima illness and very sad death…
“In fact, we have never stopped doing it,” explains the playwright of La Calòrica, Joan Yago. “At La Calòrica we keep all the productions alive, so that performances come out and everyone has a job. “If we didn’t do this, we wouldn’t have continued work.” As an example, the recovery in Seville of his first production, which was a project of his career at the Institut del Teatre.
The actor Xavi Francés points out that, although they have done it a lot, “it is not one of the best known, like De què parlem quan no parlem de tota aquesta merda?, which we did at the TNC, or Els ocells. In fact, every time we did a gig, we said: today is the last time. And, look, we’re back.”
And so much mobility also causes changes in some performers. “I played the character played by Vanessa Segura and now I play Queralt Casasayas, who is in La Villarroel playing Elling,” says actress Esther López. The cast is completed by Aitor Galisteo, and directed by Israel Solà.
Released in 2017, Fairfly talks about entrepreneurship, about the opportunity encountered by four friends who are affected by an ERE in a children’s food factory. What was first a fight to get their jobs back becomes the opportunity to develop their own idea: “Make porridge with fly protein,” explains the playwright. “Fairfly is the rise and fall of their company.”
“We wanted to make fun of entrepreneurs, with all the lies behind them, but the work is done with respect and love, because we are also entrepreneurs with our company. In fact, the viewer goes with them and wants things to go well for them,” concludes Yago.
Catalan version, here
