EL PÚBLICO

BY FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA VERSION GABRIEL CALDERÓN DIRECTION MARTA PAZOS COMEDIA NACIONAL DE MONTEVIDEO

##general.period##:: 15/01 — 26/01/25
##general.room##:: Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver

Timetable

Tuesday to Saturday at 19.00 p.m
Sunday at 18.00 p.m.

Running time

1 h 40’

Place

Sala Fabià Puigserver

Language

In Spanish

Price

€12 - €32

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

BABYSITTING SERVICE
with Més que cures
On Saturday and Sunday
from 30' before the performance
Children from 3 to 12 years
Mandatory reservation

Debate

16/01 after the show moderated by Andrea Gumes

Recommended ages

+16

RECOMMENDED SHOW

by the Educational Programme
Booking by laCultivadora

Description

The Galician director Marta Pazos presents with the Comedia Nacional de Montevideo one of the three pieces of 'impossible theater' by Federico García Lorca. A poetic and experiential experience avant la lettre.

El público is like throwing yourself down a slide, and instead of landing your feet on the sand you end up plunging in the worlds lying underneath it, where you may find Roman ruins, a sand wall, a university or Juliette’s grave. It’s a one-way journey. An embrace of mystery. Getting lost to find yourself again.
Not for nothing does it integrate García Lorca’s ‘impossible’ trilogy: it is powerful, dreamlike, unclassifiable. Among García Lorca’s most avant-garde, personal and confessional works, El público is surely one of the most challenging plays for both the artists and spectators.
It is a road trip inside the head of the author, who invites us to immerse ourselves in an ocean of sensations. Written at a time when García Lorca himself was wrangling between the more popular theatre that had garnered him success and a newer and more committed, profound, daring and truthful theatre, El público led him to take a stance as an artist and a person. As I work on the show, I am constantly ruminating on a question: what sphere García Lorca did open with El público?
El público is not a play about the cognitive. It’s like reading an ancient esoteric text. García Lorca is talking about the unconscious. I think it’s written not to be understood but to pierce its audience and talk about parts of them that not even they are aware of. If you throw yourself into this play with your body, it becomes crystal clear.
García Lorca was a magician. Now let’s make some magic.
— Marta Pazos

COMPLEMENTARY INFO ↓

Surrealism, 100 years of dreams and realities, exhibition at the Institut Français in Barcelona
Universo Lorca
The original manuscript
Margarida Xirgu a Llatinoamèrica. Un exili dolorosament brillant, by Teresa Ferré (Festival Grec, 2020)
García Lorca at the Arxiu Lliure

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Los 18 días de Lorca en Uruguay, by Loreto Mármol (Público, 2019)
Margarida Xirgu, la desterrada (El meu avi, 3cat, 2003)
Un tomb per Montevideo amb Margarida Xirgu, by Martí Crespo (Vilaweb, 2024)
El teatro imposible de García Lorca (Estudios sobre 'El público'), de Julio Huelamo Kosma (Universidad de Granada)
The play directed by Àlex Rigola (TNC 15/16)
The play directed by Lluís Pasqual (CDN, 86/87)

Schedule

CAST

Eugenia Bideau child, lady

Roxana White prestidigitator

Fernando Dianesi man 2, thief

Joel Fazzi figure of bells, Harlequin costume, student

Mauricio González centurion, black horse

Sofia Lara Juliet, white horse, student

Sofia Mañana lady

Sweet Elina Marighetti white horse, student

Rosary Martinez emperor, white horse, lady

Pablo Musetti man 3, thief

Leandro Íbero Núñez figure of wine shoots, dancer costume, student

Jimena Pérez director Harlequin, lady, silly shepherd

Mané Pérez white horse 1, lady

Gustavo Saffores director

Fernando Vannet man 1, red naked

Florence Zabaleta Elena, white horse, nurse

SETTING

Marta Pazos

COSTUMES AND MAKE UP

Agustín Petronio

LIGHTING

Nuno Meira

SOUND AND ORIGINAL MUSIC

Hugo Torres

CHOREOGRAPY

Martín Inthamoussu

SETTING ASSISTANT

Lucia Tayler and Clàudia Vilà

DOCUMENTARY MAKER

Paloma Lugilde

TECHNICAL COORDINATION

Jimena Ríos

STAGE MANAGERS

Diego Aguirregaray and Cristina Elizarzú

HAIRDRESSER

Heber Vera

MAKE UP

Mavi Amigo

COSTUMES DIRECTOR

Mariela Villasante

MANAGEMENT

Felipe Villarmarzo

MEDIA COMEDIA NACIONAL DIRECTOR

Matías Pizzolanti

GENERAL AND ARTISTIC COMEDIA NACIONAL DIRECTION

Gabriel Calderón

CURTAINS MADE BY

Zaingó workshop

CURTAIN UNDER THE SAND PAINT BY

Paula Fraile

SET UP MADE BY

Santiago 'Tato' Rebollo

COSTUMES MADE BY

Lucía Silva

AND TEAMS OF THE

Teatre Lliure

PRODUCTION

Comedia Nacional

WITH THE COLLABORATION OF