Al nostre gust

This play you are about to see is made of scraps. Our only idea has been to gather them and find a way for actors and audience to embark on a journey together. And during this journey, it should be possible to appreciate the acrobatics of the characters, and we can follow them with pleasure: how the actors switch between characters, see the drops of their sweat...! And to relax and savor their old craft. We would have taken so many words from so many authors, and made them our own..., because poets have the virtue of always saying hidden truths. Take note of these:

"I don't speak tonight as an author or as a poet, nor as a simple student of the rich panorama of human life, but as a fervent enthusiast of theater and its social action. Theater is one of the most expressive and useful instruments for the education of a country and the barometer that marks its greatness or its decline. A sensitive and well-directed theater in all its branches, from tragedy to vaudeville, can change the sensibility of a people in a few years; and a shattered theater, where hooves replace wings, can degrade an entire nation. Theater is a school of tears and laughter and a free forum where men can highlight old or mistaken morals and explain with living examples the eternal norms of the heart and the feelings of man".
Federico García Lorca

It is also necessary to explain that the title comes from a work of Shakespeare, As You Like It , which is the one we were originally supposed to rehearse with this group of actors; and the subtitle, "to the victims of hope and optimism", is by Don José Pérez del Río (or Mr. Pep).

It has been a pleasure for me to work with the actors and for you. The great team of La Perla allows us to work freely, and to reach where we have reached. Perhaps we have been wrong, but we have done it happily and with rigor. Enjoy the performance, and may it be to your liking.

Oriol Broggi