Entrañas (Entrails)

Teatro Titzina
Barcelona, Spain

Theatre X
Friday - January 27, Saturday - January 28, 9pm
Sunday - January 29, 2pm

(Tickets: General $18, Students & Seniors $12)

Entrañas *Entrails: Organs in the cavities of the human body. The essential and more private part of something. Something hidden: the entrails of the earth.

 

“Entrails” is a theatrical tragicomedy which looks at war from a human point of view, telling the story of a woman of 2005 looking for answers about her vanished Grandfather. It explores the nature of wars and humanity by following one woman’s journey to know what truly took place during the Spanish civil war from 1936 to 1939.

The award winning and celebrated Teatro Titzina from Barcelona Spain joins the Revolutions 2006 line-up with their newest masterpiece entitled Entrañas, a masterful fusion of multiple theatrical disciplines including clown, dance, & music. Directors & lead performers Diego Lorca and Pako Merina weave a spellbinding story exploring the ravages of war worldwide , and serve it to the audience in Titzina’s own powerful blend of comedy and drama. Shifting characters with lightning speed the Titzina actors have created a dynamic spectacle of physical theatre in which the public is brought to smiles, then laughs, guffaws, and finally tears of thoughtfulness and profound ideas on humanity.

Sole is alone in hospital waiting to give birth to her child. While she waits she remembers the last nine months which have changed her life. In a sequence of thirtytwo scenes we follow her journey of remembering to different places in Spain – Salamanca, Avila - and we meet the people who were important in her life; Luis, the father of her child, who never committed himself to her; her grandmother Isabel who bore her mother while her husband was at war (the Civil War in Spain) and who told her that if she ever had a child, she must have the father by her side; and Joseph, her grandfather, who disappeared in the war and who noone ever spoke of again.

While there is a child growing inside her the borders between reality and imagination become blurred. Sole needs to know the past of her family, the past of a whole generation. Towards the end of her journey of memory, the past magically connects with the future. The growing baby inside her and the inner dialogue with her grandfather make Sole imagine a future war from which she herself cannot escape.

About Teatro Titzina :

The Artists of Titzina are former students of the legendary International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq in Paris. The Lecoq school is world renowned for exemplary training in theatre focusing on the control of gesture and movement through melodrama, human comedy, tragedy, buffoons, and clown. Titzina is dedicated to creating a new voice in the theatre beyond the boundaries of language through the use of physical poetry, music, Commedia dell’ Arte, and the imaginative possibilities of movement as the basis for character creation.