Dei Furbi believe that Joan Brossa would have a lot to say in this universe of metadata and tags, and that is why its playwright and director, Gemma Beltran, has created
With music and musical arrangements by Paco Viciana, the three performers even sing a version of Wagner a cappella, the BrossalquÃries, in this story that tells, like the Faust that serves as its inspiration, a journey in search of the soul of the artist immortalized within his inventory.
Queralt Albinyana, Anna Alborch and Marc Pujol are two sopranos and a tenor who perform this musical making polyphony with their voices, without any accompanying instrument.
Beltran explains how this show came about: “It was a commission from the Brossa Foundation. I had a lot of respect for it, but it seemed like a fantastic challenge. I came up with the idea from seeing his graphic work and stage poetry. They say that every artist leaves part of his work to be immortal and that made me think of Goethe’s Faust.”
“His soul never made it to hell and that’s why I’m sending a kind of tailgater to rescue the soul, but this time from the works,” continues the playwright. The idea is to “find the soul in Brossa’s pieces”, he explains. From all the material, “we discovered that he loved Schubert, Wagner, Schumann” and his music ended up shaping the project.
“The idea for the hashtag is because he had this fascination with letters especially the A, which was a poetic trigger, but overwhelmingly simple. He didn’t know it, but it has magic and is a gateway to metadata, which it’s what he did in his life, with automatic writing and radical artistic incontinence.”
Beltran admits that there is so much material in this Brossa inventory that it became very difficult to choose which one to choose, and they chose to take the one that gave them the most play. “He is very mental and we are very physical, and there has been a train crash, but we have been able to take advantage of it,” he concludes.
The show
