Tots Ocells
From Wajdi Mouawad directed by Oriol Broggi
Eitan is a young man from a German Jewish family living in New York, studying human DNA. He meets Wahida, a young woman of Arab origin who is writing her thesis on a 16th-century humanist scholar who was forced to convert from Islam to Christianity. They fall in love, and Eitan will have to confront his family and his religious beliefs. But when the two embark on a journey to Israel and the West Bank, Eitan is caught in a terrorist attack on the Allenby border bridge, leaving him in a deep coma. This forces his family to travel from Germany to Tel Aviv, where they will discover their family's past and face the overwhelming presence of Wahida, while the world erupts in a mixture of beliefs, human DNA, religion and chance.
They will all be forced to cross the painful border between family love and the hatred of prejudice, where the violence of the outside world hovers over small domestic life and where generations crumble when the past overwhelms the present.
Text
Wajdi Mouawad
Direction & space
Oriol Broggi
Translation
Cristina Genebat
With
Xavier Boada
Joan Carreras
Màrcia Cisteró
Guillem Balart
Marissa Josa
Miriam Moukhles
Xavier Ruano
Anna Ycobalzeta
Lighting
Pep Barcons
Costumes
Berta Riera
Sound
Damien Bazin
Video
Francesc Isern
Video and Subtitles Assistance
Aurembiaix Montardit
Makeup
Jennifer Fernández
Seamstress
Tamsin Hull
Stage Management
Marc Serra, Maria Molist and Aran Broggi
Performance Technicians
Pau Montull and Pau Segura
Scenography Construction
Scenography Workshop Castells and Pascualín Structures
Creation Process Photography and Video
Alex Rademakers
Show Photography
Bito Cels
Promotional Clip
David Andreu
A coproduction of La Perla 29 and Grec 2024
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
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