Casting Lear

CASTING LEAR

CONCEPTION AND PLAY ANDREA JIMÉNEZ PLAYWRIGHT ANDREA JIMÉNEZ AND OLGA IGLESIAS DIRECTION ANDREA JIMÉNEZ AND ÚRSULA MARTÍNEZ

##general.period##:
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

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

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

CAST

Andrea Jiménez

Juan Paños

and a different actor every night

GUEST ACTORS

Pere Arquillué

Eduard Farelo

Josep Julien

Lluís Marco

Pep Munné

Francesc Orella

Albert Ribalta

...

SETTING AND LIGHTING

Judit Colomer

COSTUMES

Yaiza Pinillos

SOUND

Lucas Ariel Vallejo

MOVEMENT

Ines Narváez and Amaya Galeote

DIRECTOR ASSISTANT

Óscar Martínez-Gil

COSTUMES ASSISTANT

Berta Navas (AAPEE)

TRAINEE COSTUMES

Blanca Puente

MANAGEMENT DIRECTION ASSISTANT

Fabián Ojeda Villafuerte

MANAGEMENT DIRECTION AND STAGE MANAGER

Blanca Serrano

MANAGEMENT ON TOUR AND STAGE MANAGER

Paco Flor

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Manuel Fuster

TECHNICAL COORDINATION AND LIGHTING TECHNICIAN

Alberto Hernández de las Heras

MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Nuria – Cruz Moreno

ADMINISTRATION

Henar Hernández

MEDIA

María Díaz

DISTRIBUTION

Fran Ávila Distribución

AND THE TEAMS OF

Teatre Lliure

PICTURES

Sergio Parra

PRODUCTION

Andrea Jiménez, Barco Pirata Producciones and Teatro de La Abadía

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