Síndrome de gel

dramaturgy Mohamad Bitari and Clàudia Cedó idea and direction Xicu Masó

##general.period##:: 03/23 - 04/24/22
##general.room##:: Gràcia

Timetable

Wed. - Sat. 20:00
Sun. 18:00

Running time

1 h 45' approx.

Place

Gràcia

Language

In Catalan

Price

€ 9 to € 29

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

Accessible Friday
04/01 audio description
04/22 adapted subtitles

Debate

04/22 after the show
03/31 at 18:00 before the show NEW DATE!
with Laura Clos 'Closca'
moderated by Ad'EC

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+ 15

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Show included in

Perspectives 2023 programm

Lliure and territory

Lliure al sofà from 04/15 at 20:00
Subtitled in adapted Catalan, Spanish and English
€ 7

As he did with El metge de Lampedusa [The doctor of Lampedusa], Xicu Masó once again focuses on the Europe migrant crisis, accompanied this time around by Mohamad Bitari and Clàudia Cedó. This project is based on Dr Elisabeth Hultcrantz's study on 'resignation syndrome', which has been reported in Sweden since the 1990s, and affects children and young people from the East, Syria and the Yazidi religious minority in particular. The illness leads to lethargy as a response to the trauma of being uprooted.

Fleeing the war in Iraq, Eman and his two daughters, Baran and Ginar, arrived a few years ago in Sweden, the paradigm of the welfare society dreamed up by the social democrat Olof Palme. Today they have received an official letter, which Baran has translated to their mother, in which he says that they are denied a residence permit. And Baran later became ill: she doesn’t talk, she doesn’t play, she doesn’t do anything. Desperately, Emán takes her to the hospital. With her sick daughter, will she have to return and relive, the three of them, the devastating experience of war?

A unique phenomenon appeared in Sweden in the late 1990s which only seemed to affect children and young people in the refugee community. The cases continued for two decades, until they peaked at 350 cases between 2004 and 2005. Children and young people stopped communicating and eating, and succumbed to a strange lethargy, similar to a coma in many ways. After some debate, the medical community dubbed this phenomenon "resignation syndrome". That is the documentary context - with the book by Dr Elisabeth Hultcrantz as its main source - used by Xicu Masó and Clàudia Cedó to construct a metaphor about the unbearable anguish of those who live in fear of returning to a place of death and suffering from which they managed to escape. This threat becomes all too real when the supposed host country fails to resolve the issue of their status and leaves them in limbo. Sweden was one of the countries that was most welcoming to refugees until the rise of the far right at the end of the twentieth century.

The project is a poetic construction that uses various dimensions to get into the minds of these bodies that have reached their limit, and have cut off their links to the rest of the world. The authors place a brutal mirror in front of the audience, reflecting the violence involved in the refugees' uprooting and the nightmare of their past, which continues the spirit of condemnation that was also the driving force behind Xicu Masó's previous production.

Schedule

CAST

Sílvia Albert Sopale Margaret Läckberg

Muntsa Alcañiz Agatha Bloom

Judit Farrés Linda Mattson

Asma Ismail Eman Hajji

Carles Martínez Christopher Röckström

Roc Martínez Ginar Hasan

Ramon Micó hospital attendant

Jana Punsola Baràn Hasan

Manar Taljo Lamya Al-Abed

SETTING AND LIGHTING

Laura Clos 'Closca'

COSTUMES

Adriana Parra

SOUND AND VIDEO

Joan Gorro

DIRECTOR ASSISTANT

Clàudia Ferrer

SETTING ASSISTANT

Sergi Corbera

TRAINEE ASSISTANT FROM ERAM PERFORMANCES STUDIES DEGREE

Silvana Llopart

TRAINEE DIRECTION AND DRAMATURGY ASSITANT FROM IT

Alfons Casal

SET UP MADE BY

Xarli Hernàndez

THANKS TO

Elisabeth Hultcrantz, Maria Viozquez, Amat Calsina, Pontos Sánchez, Mònica Rius Piniés, Cristina Camps, Cristina Mas, Shirin Omar, Rinas Omar, Nor Betari and their two daughters, Amjad Bitari and Abed Al-Haj