Tots Ocells

Reality once again surpassing fiction, exceeding it. I try to write a few lines to introduce what you will see, but I struggle to find the words. I could tell you great things about this beautiful text and the rehearsal process we have undertaken, so strong and full of life, or I could attempt to uncover some truth, more or less founded, that might help us to better understand the cruel world we live in. But I believe Tots Ocells contains a truth that now we cannot express solely in words, because it is like an amphibian that needs two mediums to live. I invite you, then, to find it and recognise it in the eyes of others.

We often search in vain for the exact word to encapsulate a reality so complex that we cannot grasp it. And during rehearsals, we try to articulate a form that captures the simplest truth behind this reality. Tots Ocells resonates with layers and layers of a history that seems impossible to unravel. Conflicts, dilemmas, identities and alterities, hopes, promises, frustrations, secrets that will have to be revealed in the midst of a world that is exploding and that leaves us with a pain in the form of a thousand questions.

Sometimes we need to traverse complexity to look truth in the face... Like the actors who look into each other’s eyes, and us who see ourselves in their gazes. And then, be consistent. Theatre cannot save any lives, but perhaps the story we will tell you can bring life to life. I thus invite you to find it and follow it in the space that exists while we look at each other.

Oriol Broggi and La Perla 29