Hamlet

Now we want to do a Hamlet!

The journey that La Perla 29 has undertaken within the theatrical world of our country has been somewhat unconventional. Anyway, that's how we like to think of it. From our corner, we have been able to grow steadily, as a team and with conviction. We have done what we wanted, reaching an agreement with a growing and loyal audience, and keeping alive the eternal conflict between reality and what is called the "theatrical system." A theatrical system that we love, because it is ours, but that we also want to improve. During these first eight years of life, La Perla 29 has been building a solid work team and a physical space that has managed, we believe, to generate a cultural space within this system we speak of: a unique space in the collective imagination.

From our freedom, we have taken the texts that we have liked the most, and without complexes, we have done what we felt like doing. We have used the elements that we have considered appropriate at each moment to say exactly what we wanted. And we are happy, because during the last few years, we have had the chance to get to know up close The Misanthrope, Uncle Vanya, Antigone, ... and also Shakespeare's King Lear. And in Shakespeare, we have found freedom. Total freedom, within the extraordinary "measure" of his verses, and the situations he poses.

Now. Today. We believe, we dare to think, that we can do a Hamlet! It is scary and above all, it commands respect, but at the same time, it fills us with a crazy excitement. It's the feeling of starting over; of looking at everything again and seeing it differently. We believe that if we wait too long, we will no longer be young enough to dare, as has happened to us with Lear or Vanya.... and at the same time, we are starting to reach an age that allows us to feel capable and eager to play with Hamlet.

For us, now is the time. We are ready for battle. And then, we remember Papasseit: "Every wound, the blood of a poem". The poet would have been a friend of Shakespeare and Hamlet, for sure. Nothing is mean, nor is any hour dark! And it's because the theater cannot be something dark, overseen by ungenerous people, highbrows of high culture, savages or twisted minds. Theater must be done with enthusiasm, and we cannot lose sight of the fact that it is the characters who doubt and not the actors. The actors dance, sing, recite, cry, drink beer, and have a party in front of the audience. They show happiness because they feel free thanks to Shakespeare. And that's how we feel, freer, more human, and everything seems possible and wonderful to us; and when it's not, it is for a moment, because: "every wound is the blood of a poem, of a new scene, of a new impulse."

Oriol Broggi