Words become action.A single sentence can break a family, ignite a revolt, betray a friendship, or rescue a buried memory.
Sometimes a word is all we have left. Sorry. Tomorrow. Hold on.
We want to love words more.
And we want to hate them.
We denounce the flattening of words today.
Their comfort, their makeup, their cowardice.
We want words that are alive, uncomfortable, boundless.
The moment when we must speak to survive, to love, to resist, or to escape.
The word an actor speaks, written by someone who was listening to another actor.
Our craft — theatre — is a constant struggle with them: they pierce us, transform us, we betray ourselves through them. They are our metamorphosis.
There must be old words that return, and new words we still don’t know how to say.
Shakespeare, Koltès, Eduardo De Filippo, Tiago Rodrigues, and so many other voices.
What will become of us if we don’t learn to speak from truth?
We ask ourselves what it means to be contemporary.
We ask ourselves why we no longer say atavistic, utopian.
What is cathartic?
Our stages are filled with characters who speak from the edge: from desire, from injustice, from wounds or from love.Be they wild monologues or silences heavy as a storm, full of words left unsaid.
Silent words.Repressed words.Forgotten words.Where are they when we don’t speak them?
At La Perla 29, we believe theatre is the space where we can listen to what the world usually silences.
Whose words are they?
This season, we open our doors so that words — all of them, even the difficult ones — can be spoken.
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