REITERAT REI TARAT

PLAY JORDI ORIOL DIRECTION NAO ALBET INDI GEST

##general.period##:: 14/12/24 — 04/01/25
##general.room##:: Montjuïc. Espai Lliure

Timetable

School performances from 11/12
Wednesday to Friday
at 09.30 a.m. and 11.30 a.m.

Family performances
Saturday at 19.30 p.m.
and Sunday at 18.30 p.m.
From 20/12 to 04/01 at 19.30 p.m.
and Sunday at 18.30 p.m.

25/12 no performance

Running time

1 h aprox.

Place

Espai Lliure

Language

In Catalan

Price

€7 - €12

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

Recommended ages

+12

School performances
+12 (ESO)

Show included in

on the School Programme
Booking by laCultivadora

Description

The playwright, director and actor Jordi Oriol has written a new version of Shakespeare’s King Lear based on the one he made for the Lliure during the lockdown. It’s a minstrelsy about verse and the taste for language.

A king loses his head when he realises that he does not know how to distinguish real from feigned love. And in theatre, can we distinguish what is real from what is feigned?

The story of a daft king is nothing new. It’s a classic. So is the dense story recounted in Shakespeare’s King Lear, which combines two parallel plots, each mirroring the other. The stories are repeated, especially if we witness its own re-presentation.
Indeed, in Reiterat rei tarat I wanted to focus on one of the themes in the original play: the madness into which the king spirals (just like Gloucester in the mirror plot) when he realises that he was unable to distinguish between feigned and true love. Indeed, it is easier to accept false compliments that flatter us than to accept uncomfortable truths that hurt us.
And the problem of distinguishing the truth from lies fits in perfectly with the very idea of theatre. After all, representing a fictitious story leads to the paradox that we’ll never actually know who is speaking, who is looking, who is weeping: the performer or the character. We cannot actually know whether what we don’t buy is what the character is saying or the actor who is performing that character poorly.
After writing the play Rei Liró (on commission from the Teatre Lliure to reinterpret Shakespeare’s King Lear for the Classics for Kids series at the start of the pandemic), which Riki Blanco animated so it could be seen on screen, I decided to reiterate this story and this time actually take it to the stage. I decided to rewrite it from the here and now, in verse. It’s about the love of language, theatre, enjoyment and place. Making something new from something old. And yes, yet another perversion of a tragedy. And yes, King Lear yet again. But I reiterate: a new King Lear.
— Jordi Oriol Canals