Birnam
From Víctor Sunyol, DIRECTED BY Joan Roura
In Birnam, an old actor is in the dressing room preparing him self to represent King Duncan in Macbeth, when doubts begin to arise. Questions about the value of the word and the nature of language, about theatre and its function, about his moment as an actor and his past, about oldness... His ghosts are reselling him, he doubts about everything, his world is in crisis. With these disquisitions he established a soliloquium weaving with quotations, references and comments to Shakespeare and his plays, as well as some of the dramatists and writers he loves (Beckett, Sarah Kane, Borchert, Tarkovski...). These reflections mean that the convenience of going out or not on stage is reconsidered while the hour is approaching and the voice of the councilor, as an implacable Cronos, announces the arrival of the moment of the decision.
Text
Víctor Sunyol
Direction
Joan Roura
Text adaptation
Lluís Soler i Auladell
With
Lluís Soler i Auladell
Lighting
Pep Barcons
Wardrobe
Montse Alacuart
Scenic Design
Joan Roura
Stage Manager
Marc Serra
Technical Operator
Emili Vallejo
Public Atention
Marta Cros and Núria Ubiergo
Photography
David Ruano
Poster Design
Pau Masaló
Thanks to Toni i la Carme del Teatret d’Esparreguera i al CorCia Teatre
A production of La Perla 29
An hour before stepping on stage to perform, once again, as King Duncan in Mac... sorry, the unnameable. Once again, the ritual of the one who must take the stage begins. Once again, almost mechanically, he looks at himself in the mirror. That revealing mirror.
This time, however, doubts assail him, perhaps more than ever. All those doubts that have always been there, but this time they return accompanied by all his ghosts and make him reconsider stepping onto the stage.
It's many years of letting go of words, words, words and now he thinks that maybe the time has come to fold, to say enough... to be silent.
Birnam is an act of voyeurism. It's looking through the keyhole of a dressing room and seeing the loneliness and fragility of a veteran actor, disoriented and reflective before the performance.
Thoughts come to him suddenly and rush out through his mouth, one after the other, he vomits them impulsively and unconsciously as time relentlessly advances towards the moment when he will go out there again, onto the stage. Or not!
Joan Roura
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