The Àtrium hall in Barcelona hosts another comedy by Marc Artigau, Les altres, the result of the commission that the actresses Cristina Arenas and Laura Pujolàs made to the playwright. Interpreting a collection of characters, the actresses, directed by Meritxell Yanes, present situations specific to adolescence linked to the seven deadly sins, served with acid humor and a very good interpretive line.
“When they proposed it to me – says Artigau -, I immediately thought of a kind of anthology of short stories, with the excuse of capital sins. It is a simple scenography show, so that it can be taken everywhere. It is a very different production from L’illa deserta”, which can be seen at La Villarroel and which has already sold out all the tickets.
“The stories of Les otres are marked by humor, sometimes even black – he continues -. And it’s not just a work for teenagers, but for all kinds of audiences.”
In this sense, Yanes adds: “It is a work to see with the family, because it can give rise to the beginning of many conversations, because adolescence for parents and children is the same, a moment of discovery, even if the environment or technology are different”.
On stage, Arenas and Pujolàs present eight scenes in which they play various characters: the friends who meet in the restroom of the nightclub, the shy classmate who presents a work in front of his peers, the overprotective mother who wants the best for your daughter or the parents’ meeting with the teacher who wants to ask for leave because she can’t stand her students.
This last episode of the professor, hilarious, is written in verse: “I’m very attracted to the idea of ??writing in verse, but I don’t dare to do an entire work – confesses Artigau-. On the other hand, here, since it is only one of the stories, I have tried it”.
The others premiered in April at the La Planeta theater in Girona, which co-produces it with Mithistòrima Produccions, and can now be seen at the Àtrium theater in Barcelona until July 2.
