CASTING LEAR
CONCEPTION AND PLAY ANDREA JIMÉNEZ DIRECTION ANDREA JIMÉNEZ AND ÚRSULA MARTÍNEZ
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- 13/11 — 01/12/24
- ##general.room##:
- Montjuïc. Espai Lliure
Timetable
Wednesday to Saturday at 19.30 p.m
Sunday at 18.30 p.m.
Running time
1 h 30’
Place
Espai Lliure
Language
In Spanish
Price
€12 – €32
Description
From the Teatro de La Abadía we get an extraordinary success: a self-directed piece by Andrea Jiménez from Shakespeare's Lear, improvised every night with a different actor. Fatherhood, love, listening and forgiveness.
My father is Lear, but he has never been in a theatre. I’m Cordelia, and I’m a theatre director. Like her, I will search for Lear, I’ll dare to look at him and I’ll try to forgive him. And I’ll do it onstage. Every night, a different actor will play Lear; he’ll be my father, one possible father, one that does want to sit in a theatre and talk.
This simulation-version of King Lear aspires to open a door to thinking about how we interact with our fathers, both our biological and metaphorical ones, beginning with William Shakespeare. It is autofiction based on a classic, or an autofictional classic, and hopefully both. It’s a play about our origins, about how everything that happened before us hounds us, even if we prefer to ignore it. It’s about how we are fashioned by those who came before us. About how to invent a life that belongs to you without forgetting the past. About how to imagine other possible endings. It is also a recital, or an essay; it is what happens before everything happens, the place just before something takes on its exact form, the precise moment when everything is still possible.
— Andrea Jiménez
COMPLEMENTARY INFO
Shakespeare and Feminist Theory by Arianne Novy (The Arden Shakespeare, 2019)
Schedule
CAST
Andrea Jiménez
Juan Paños
and a different actor every night
GUEST ACTORS
Pep Molina
...
VERSION
Juan Mayorga from King Lear by Willam Shakespere
DRAMATURG
Olga Iglesias
SETTING AND LIGHTING
COSTUMES
Yaiza Pinillos
SOUNDING SPACE
MOVEMENT
Ines Narváez and Amaya Galeote
DIRECTOR ASSISTANT
Óscar Martínez-Gil
MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR ASSISTANT
Fabián Ojeda Villafuerte
MANAGEMENT AND STAGE MANAGER DIRECTOR
Blanca Serrano
TOUR MANAGEMENT AND STAGE MANAGER
Paco Flor and Mélanie Pindado
TECHNICAL DIRECTORS
Manuel Fuster and Alberto de las Heras
GUEST ACTORS COORDINATION
María Díaz
LIGHTING TECHNICIANS
Raúl Baena and Eduardo Vizuete
SOUND TECHNICIAN
Carlos González
MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION
Nuria – Cruz Moreno
ADMINISTRATION
Henar Hernández
MEDIA
María Díaz
SET UP MADE BY
Óscar Muñoz. La Caverna Del Érebo
PICTURES
Sergio Parra
POSTER
Eva Ramón
DISTRIBUTION
Fran Ávila Distribución
TRANSPORT
FJS Transporte
AND THE TEAMS OF
Teatre Lliure
THANKS TO
Teatro Municipal de Coslada, Raquel Varela, Paco Savio, Pedro Manuel Galán, Javier Cuartero, Higinio Rodríguez, Juan Carlos González-Mohino, Juan Carlos Prieto, Juan Carlos Escudero, José Blanes, Juan Bautista, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Ezequiel Castellanos, Jesús Peñas, Álvaro Majer, Guillermo Aragonés, Sergio Cappanera, Andrés Zaragoza, Juan José Cabrera, Chema Casillas, Federico López Melo, Ricardo Galán, Pampyn, Jaime Laorden, Blas Ortis, Juan Manuel Romero, Julian Luján, Jesús Blanco, Xuacu, Ramón Muñiz and Braulio Suarez
PRODUCTION
Andrea Jiménez, Barco Pirata Producciones and Teatro de La Abadía
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