UNA MENA D’ALASKA

BY HAROLD PINTER DIRECTION IVAN BENET

##general.period##:: 07/05 — 01/06/25
##general.room##:: Espai Lliure

Timetable

Wednesday to Friday at 19.30 p.m
Saturday at 17.30 p.m. and 21.30 p.m.
Sunday at 18.30 p.m.

Running time

1 h 25’ approx.

Place

Espai Lliure

Language

In Catalan

Price

€12 - €32 / Preview 06/05, €12 (sold out)

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone
30/05 audiodescription and adapted over-titles

Debate

22/05 after the show moderated by Anna Guitart

RELATED ACTIVITY
13/05 Awakenings
by Penny Marshall (1990, 121')
in the cycle Per amor a les Arts
by the Filmoteca de Catalunya

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Description

A play by Harold Pinter based on the clinical cases of the neurologist Oliver Sacks directed by Ivan Benet with dance by Andrés Corchero. The story of a woman who comes to after being asleep for 29 years.

Once I read this text by Harold Pinter, the urge and the need to join dance and theatre took shape as I plunged into the world that the author creates. Pinter wrote an enigmatic yet emotional piece about the fascinating, unexpected awakening of a woman who suffered from lethargic encephalitis. The play takes place amidst that recognisable state in which reality and dream coexist in parallel and life and death are virtuously intertwined, so much that one doubts whether what one dreamed was actually experienced and whether what one experienced was actually a dream. It’s an incredible, poetic text whose political underpinning can be subtly glimpsed like the bottom of a still lake, inviting us to reflect on a slumbering society and the imminent awakening from this lethargic period. How long will we sleep?
— Ivan Benet