Tots ocells

By Wajdi Mowawad

Data
From 01.04.2025 to 03.30.2025
Duration
This show is in the process of being created. Currently, the estimated duration is 3h15min (intermission included).

Tour period: January - March 2025
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A new text by Wajdi Mouawad has come to us, and it's an immense poem that gives wings to a great production. The characters of Tots Ocells (All Birds) try to make themselves understood and hurt each other, they seek to explain themselves to know who they are, to speak in their different languages, their worlds, their beliefs. We want to embrace all the life it contains and expand it on stage, like a cry of rage and pain, like an ancient question, like a song that pierces our soul.

Synopsis

Eitan is a young Jewish German who lives in New York and studies human DNA. He knows Wahida, a young Arab who is making her thesis about a 16th-century humanist sage who converted from Islam to Christianity by obligation. Both fall in love, forcing Eitan to confront his family and confront his fundamentalist religious beliefs. But when the two young men travel to Israel and the West Bank, Eitan is caught by a terrorist attack on the Allenby border bridge which will leave him in a deep coma. This will force his family to travel from Germany to Tel Aviv, where they will discover their family past, in a mixture of beliefs, religion, human DNA and chance.

They will all be forced to cross the painful border between family love and hatred of prejudice, where the violence of the outside world overflies domestic life and where generations break apart when the past overflows the present.
Artistic card

From 
Wajdi Mouawad
Directed by 
Oriol Broggi 
Traduction 
Cristina Genebat

With 
Guillem Balart
Xavier Boada
Joan Carreras
Màrcia Cisteró
Marissa Josa
Miriam Moukhles
Xavier Ruano
Clara Segura

Space 
Oriol Broggi 
Lights 
Albert Faura
Sound
Damien Bazin
Video 
Francesc Isern
Costumes 
Berta Riera

A coproduction of La Perla 29 and Grec Festival 2024
Galeria imatges secundària (slide)
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Management notes

For almost three years now, this text has been beyond our dreams. He came into my mind the first time I read it, and I think of it as a way of continuing the great projects that we want to tackle from La Perla 29. To build a great spectacle from a text - again groundbreaking and tremendously exciting - by the author of Fires, Forests and Heavens. Getting closer to the essence of something deep, hitting the spectators and once again posing the old dilemma of the theater: mirror or hammer?  

I remember the silences of the great opening nights, and I think of the new characters. And I'm excited to think about how these great actors and actresses will shape their new silences. How are we going to work the difficulty of understanding ourselves. How are we going to find a language, a language.

This show is born out of an imperative need to get to rehearse and show a story to viewers. How to tell her and make her live, all together. It is born of the mad desire for theater. It is a great feeling of collectiveness and a conviction that a useful and much-loved work can emerge; a passionate, fascinating and necessary work.

Oriol Broggi 
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Saturday
04
jan. 2025
 
Sunday
30
mar. 2025