THEATER

DENMARK (2019)

Dinamarca (2019)

by Josep Lluis and Rodolf Sirera | Carles Alfaro, Director |

Production IVC [Institut Valencià de Cultura] | Rialto Theatre (Valencia)

For Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Clarinet Bb/Bass Cl., Harp, Celesta, Harmonium, Percussion and Electronics.

The play takes place during the years of the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Six characters are weaving an exciting net of relationships and conflicts that swing from the most intimate and familiar sphere to the struggle between the Resistance and the pro-Nazi paramilitary groups, from the sentimental universe to professional ambition and from the most hidden sexual desires to the crisis of religious faith.
Denmark closes the trilogy Sirera brothers 'Europe at War'. Jointly raised before the sudden death of Josep Lluís, it was completed by Rodolf as a tribute to his brother. Thus, this absorbing and masterful piece becomes the last work of two of the greatest authors of our theater.

DINAMARCA (2019) Text, Josep Lluís and Rodolf Sirera

CAST

Paula Braguinsky (Anika Rohde), Sergio Caballero (Frederik Lund), Cristina García (‘Brita’ Birgitte Rybner), Enric Juezas (Kristen Nielsen), Raúl Navarro (Frank Holt) and Rebeca Valls (Solvej Nielsen).

ARTISTIC TEAM
Direction, Carles Alfaro / Directing Assistant, Diego Braguinsky / Production Stage Manager, Lucía Sáez / Music and Sound Design, Joan Cerveró / Scenic Design, Luis Crespo / Costume Design and Production, Pascual Peris / Lighting Design, Carles Alfaro / Video, Amador Artiga / Filmmaker, Carles Hofmann / Movement, Cristina Fernández / Hair and Make-up Design, Inma Fuentes / Stage making, Marcos Orbegozo / Photography, Jordi Pla / IVC Executive Production, Esther Moreno & Sara Rey.

CAST

Iván Hermes (José K.

ARTISTIC TEAM
Direction, dramaturgy and stage design, Carles Alfaro / Assistant director, Vicenta Ndongo / Sound space: Jose Antonio Gutierrez & Joan Cerveró / Technical coordination, Ismael Aguilar & Paco Silva / Photography, Jordi Pla / Promotional videos, Carlos Martín / Reseach and documentation, Jorge del Cura / Executive production, Moma Teatre.

A production by Moma Teatre with the collaboration of Hermes Producciones.

JOSÉ K, TORTURED (2018)

José K., torturado (2018)

by Javier Ortiz | Carles Alfaro, Director

Production Moma Teatre & Teatro de la Abadía (Madrid)

For Violin, Celesta, Harp, Percussion & Electronics

In an undetermined country, the Police have arrested a terrorist. Alias José K.
He has just placed a bomb in a crowded plaza, but refuses to say where he is and at what specific time he will detonate. What to do?

Would torture be lawful, in this case, to avoid the massacre? "José K, tortured" is the voice of a terrorist, of a monster ... full of reasons?

The viewer attends a confessional, solitary act; to the judgment of José K. to himself, to the evolution of his contradictions, to the debate of the ultimate meaning of his life. Listening to it does not mean accepting it, or justifying it. It means trying to know the origin of acts that we understand to be aberrant ...

"José K, tortured" is a plea against the perversions of spirit that can make man the fiercest of animals.

Human reason is capable of ascending to the sublime, but it can also become an instrument of terror, cruelty ... and torture.