Passat el riu
from Joe DiPietro, Direction by Oriol Broggi
Nick, young and single, goes to dinner every Thursday with his maternal and paternal grandparents who live in the same building.
He is the only one left of the immediate family since both his parents and his sister have long since left for other American cities. So that the loyal and "good jan" Nick receives exclusively all the attention of his four grandparents; this often exasperates him and often makes him happy...
The grandparents are devastated when Nick announces that he has been promoted professionally and that he is about to accept the offer that will take him to live in another city. All grandparents go to great lengths to try to get their only grandchild to stay; and so they invite an attractive single girl to dinner. But their plan won't go as planned...
Text
Joe DiPietro
Translation
Jordi Fité
Direction
Oriol Broggi
With
Àngels Poch
Jordi Banacolocha
Marissa Josa
Jaume Pla
Míriam Alamany
Xavier Ripoll
Lighting
Pep Barcons
Scenography
Oriol Broggi and Carles Pujol
Sound
Oriol Broggi
Costume
Marta Pelegrina
Characterization
Toni Santos
Hairdresser
Esther Sànchez
Council
Marc Serra
Technical duties
Joan Delshorts
Scenography construction
Sant Cugat Scenography Workshop
A production of La Perla 29 with the collaboration of Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat
I imagine that one night I went to the theater, to see 'Passat el Riu,' by Joe Dipietro. And now I'm heading home (Mediterranean House) and I think, excitedly, about the story they have just made me live. I couldn't say exactly what attracts me most about Nick, the protagonist of this sad comedy, but I do know that his four grandparents have become inhabitants of my personal world. I have been caught with them. Through them. Because they are like mine. My world: familiar and Mediterranean, struggling hard, but with finesse, with the North American world: liberal and Anglo-Saxon. My grandparents, my parents who act as grandparents to my daughters, family, money, and work... I like the theater of great stories. Those that are, for what they tell and for their characters, indestructible lines that reach the heart and stomach. If, in addition, they pass through the head, they trap me for a long time. And I remember them.
Oriol Broggi
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