Barcelona (EFE) lel 62, within the Grec Festival, and will show “a type of portrait of Barcelona that is not usually seen in the theater”, according to its director, Iván Morales.
The director of the festival, Francesc Casadesús, clarified this Monday in a press conference that the montage is “a first taste” of what will be premiered at the Teatre Lliure next season and which will cover the three volumes of the book.
In this first approach to the great work of Casavella, Morales focuses on the first book, the one that narrates the beginnings of Fernando Atienza, a young man raised in the Montjuïc barracks, who in the seventies “jumps from the mountain of the poor to that of the rich, which is Tibidabo”, according to Morales.
“The best way to pay homage to Casavella is to throw a party”, added the director, who in this first production will include a music session, in which he himself will be the DJ.
The soundtrack of the life of Fernando Atienza, anchored in the Barcelona ‘underground’, will accompany and close a production that wants to give voice to “the extras of history, those who never appear in the books because they are not the ones who write them” .
The creative process of this work, which began before the pandemic, has been possible thanks to the support of Barcelona City Council, through the Barcelona Crea Scholarships.
Grec Festival will include in its program this year ten projects promoted by these grants for creation and research.
On July 5, the Fundació Joan Brossa will host “The submerged voice”, a show that takes place entirely inside a fishbowl, in which María Palma immerses herself to “work on topics such as inside-outside, stillness-movement and the relationship between individual with the totality”, has explained the director Anna Pascual.
The La Caldera dance center presents two proposals: “I have a contemporary problem”, by Carmelo Salazar and Bea Fernández, and “Celebration. A spoken dance ”, by Montse Colomé, an artist who has been dancing for sixty years and who takes a tour of her career and what it means to dedicate her life to dance.
The Jamboree is also present in the Barcelona Crea Scholarships and in the Grec with the projects of the pianist and composer Lucas Delgado and the guitarist Álvaro Imperial.
For its part, the company Lalinea portrays a generation of heroin users through Teresa’s testimony and her poetic universe.