Caramel

CARAMEL

PLAY PABLO MESSIEZ DIRECTION ARIADNA PEYA AND CLARA PEYA LES IMPUXIBLES

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06/11 — 01/12/24
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Gràcia

Show completed

Timetable

Wednesday to Friday at 19.00 p.m
Saturday at 17.00 p.m. and 20.30 p.m.
Sunday at 18.00 p.m.

Wednesday 13/11, school performance at 11.00 a.m.

Running time

1 h 20’

Place

Gràcia

Language

In Catalan and Spanish

Price

€12 - €32 / Preview 05/11, €12

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone
Adapted over-titles in all the performances
22/11 simultaneous translation into Catalan sign language

Debate

21/11 moderated by Andrea Gumes
22/11 adapted debate in Catalan sign language

Recommended ages

+16

School performance
+16 (Baccalaureate)

Show included in

on the School Programme
Booking by laCultivadora

This is a one-off collaboration by the sisters Ariadna Peya and Clara Peya (Les Impuxibles) and Pablo Messiez: a creative show that opens the doors to ponder why we consume.

Caramel springs from the desire to try to understand the different ways of interacting with the consumption of substances and their effects.
After two years of research, meetings and talks with people and institutions connected to the topic, it has become clear that it is impossible for a single play to address the host of questions that arises as we observe the complex world of consumption.
On one extreme is the moralistic, stigmatising view marked by the arbitrariness of what is or is not legal today, while on the other is the romanticisation of consumption as a choice in reaction to the hegemonic judgement.

But what is actually happening? What is the question? How can the same thing be both liberating and imprisoning? A tool to control the system and an act of anti-system rebellion?

In cases of problematic consumption, the question is clearly not in the substances but the relationship with them, and the fact that this relationship is determined by a combination of different factors like class, gender and the wounds left by trauma.

However, if we talk about drugs, stigma often appears immediately. It’s easy to blame what is forbidden. But when we glance at the list of allowed drugs, the stigma miraculously disappears. We’re on the side of good, and the law of business is marking its territory, like an animal.

But what happens if instead of focusing on the substance we look at the true danger zone: compulsion. All these actions we perform without thinking fully whether they appeal to us, or even knowing that they don’t at all.
Where does this docility come from? What causes it?
Might it not be the very capitalist system that nurtures, promotes and facilitates the confusion between compulsion and desire?
Of what you have, what do you need? Of what you want? Do you want more?

When desire turns into compulsion, consumption becomes problematic. In that case, should the goal not be to seek how to identify the origin of the compulsive practice in order to deactivate it instead of banning consumption or stigmatising those who consume to seek some form of relief or fun?
Our aim is for the play to ask the question, not to be silent, nor to judge, but to try to understand so that we can care for ourselves and be right.
Pablo Messiez and Les Impuxibles


On the critic's...
"The fusion of the different languages that Caramel integrates make it a true mirror, as delicate as full of sensitivity, of what we call -rightly or not- hybrid theatre. (···) A real "candy" to unwrap without making much noise, little by little, to take it to the mouth delicately and taste the sensations that it gives off." (Andreu Sotorra, Clip de teatre)

"Les Impuxibles do not judge, they show many prisms of this mirror in the dreamlike collage in which music and song constitutes a veritable backbone. (···) A poem with multiple flavors. A candy that both captures and seduces." (Jordi Bordes, Recomana.cat)

Salsa Romesco, podcast with Ariadna Peya and Pablo Messiez

COMPLEMENTARY INFO ↓

Energy Control, substances guide
What is Chemsex?
Chemsafe: the Harm and Risk Reduction programme, which provides information, analysis and advice on gender issues, and is oriented towards land management.
Virtual Library of drugs and gender (Espai Ariadna)

Please, display the menu on down to obtain further information.

CAST

Yasser D’Oquendo

Helena Gispert

Pol Guimerà

Mabel Olea

Clara Peya

Sandra Pujol

Joan Solé

OFF VOICE

Pablo Messiez

CHOREOGRAPHY

Ariadna Peya

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Clara Peya

PLAY AND EXTERNAL LOOK

Pablo Messiez

DRAMATURG AND SPANISH TRANSLATOR

Marc Cartanyà

PLAYWRIGHT

Ariadna Peya, Clara Peya, Marc Cartanyà and Rita Molina Vallicrosa

SETTING AND LIGHTING

Judit Colomer

COSTUMES

Joan Ros

SOUND

Carles Bernal

DIRECTOR ASSISTANT

Rita Molina Vallicrosa

ACTING SUPPORT

Marc Cartanyà and Rita Molina Vallicrosa

ACCESSABILITY ADVISOR

Èlia Farrero

CONTENTS ADVISORS

Míriam Vázquez (Espai Ariadna), Aura Roig (Metzineres), Gastón Auguste, Clara Serra, Energy Control, Gerard Matín-Funés, Sandro Bedini, Júlia, Maria and Clara Faura Vilarmaui, Vero and other people who prefer to remain anonymous

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Jordi Berch

TECNICAL COORDINATION

Mariona Ubia

MANAGEMENT DIRECTION

Mireia Gràcia Bell-lloch and Júlia Simó Puyo

MANAGEMENT

Maria G. Rovelló

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT

Contracorrent

TRAINEE ASSISTANT BY EMAV

Òscar Argemí (accessibility)

SET UP MADE BY

Pascualin Estructures

MEDIA COMPANY

Marta Vilanova and Cristina Castilla (L’eclíptica)

POSTER PICTURE

Xevi Abril

PICTURES

Marta Mas

TEASER

Jep Jorba

AND THE TEAMS OF

Teatre Lliure

THANKS TO

Reinaldo Ribeiro, Cercle de dones de l'Espai Ariadna, Fundació La Plana, Renata Ramos, Maria Beltrán, Albert Barbé, Jou Serra, Lipi Hernández and Cube Peak

© Marta Mas / Clara Peya
© Marta Mas
© Marta Mas
© Marta Mas

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