El Conde de Torrefiel
Una imagen interior
Una imagen interior, El Conde de Torrefiel, © El Conde de Torrefiel ©
Una imagen interior, El Conde de Torrefiel, © El Conde de Torrefiel ©
Una imagen interior, El Conde de Torrefiel, © El Conde de Torrefiel ©
Design and creation, El Conde de Torrefiel
Creative and performance collaboration: Gloria March Chulvi, Julian Hackenberg, Mauro Molina, David Mallols, Anaïs Doménech, Carmen Collado
Staging and stage work, Tanya Beyeler, Pablo Gisbert
Text, Pablo Gisbert
Translation, Marion Cousin (french), Nika Blazer (english)
Stage design, Maria Alejandre, Estel Cristià
Lights, Manoly Rubio García
Sound, Rebecca Praga, Uriel Ireland
Building of the set, Los Reyes del Mambo, Isaac Torres, Miguel Pellejero
Sculpture, Mireia Donat Melús
Robot creation, José Brotons Plà
Technical direction et coordination, Isaac Torres
Sound and video manager, Uriel Ireland
Light manager on tour, Roberto Baldinelli, Guillem Bonfill, Isaac Torres, Uriel Ireland
Administration and production, Haizea Arrizabalaga
Produced by Cielo Drive SL
Broadcast by Caravan Production
Co-produced by Wiener Festwochen; Festival d’Avignon; Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels); Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque (Madrid); Festival Grec (Barcelona); Teatro Piemonte Europa / Festival delle colline Torinesi (Turin); Le Grütli – Centre de production et de diffusion des Arts vivants (Geneva); Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise; La Villette (Paris); Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from ICEC – Generalitat de Catalunya; TEM Teatre Musical de Valencia; Centro Párraga (Murcia)
Co-directed by La Villette (Paris); Festival d’Automne à Paris for productions at La Villette (Paris)
In this latest piece by El Conde de Torrefiel, the onstage protagonists exist within the framework of an ever-changing, malleable scenography. The latter is in keeping with the unstable reality it seeks to bear witness to. A response to the formatted images which assail us, the piece plunges us into the heart of the imagination.
Five actors and actresses inhabit a cavern entirely made of plastic. This natural feature is turned into something artificial, or false, comprised of an array of different elements, and can be constantly modified. It prompts us to ask ourselves questions about the meaning of the word reality, in relation to “humanity and its tendency to want to break free from nature”. Indeed, reality is not as solid, stable and unalterable as we expect. It is neither “made of stone, nor is it as dense as an ocean. It is neither mountain, nor volcano”. On the contrary, it is liable to transform itself or shatter at any moment, in the face of a war, a pandemic, or a natural catastrophe. At the rear of this plastic cavern, similar to that of Plato, the real and the fictional battle it out. Una imagen interior (An Interior Image) recounts a falling down, but not of the kind which is governed by the unquestionable laws of gravity. This piece is about a descent into the heart of an imaginary image, which is both fragile and threatening at the same time
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