EL TEMPS DE LES COSES, show Winner of the Odisseu Eòlia i+D 2023 Grant, premieres on March 16 at Teatre Eòlia.

THE TIME OF THINGS
ODYSSEU SCHOLARSHIP 2023
MARTÍ COSTA OLIVÉ AND CIA THE SEARCH

Pau returns to live in the family home when his father and mother are no longer there. The years of his childhood, which he had forgotten, will visit him during sleepless nights and pour him into an inner, dreamlike and metaphorical journey where the woods and animals will connect him to the child he once was.

Thus, the memory of a family stuck in immobility, incommunicado and the difficulties to love, will make him face the fears and doubts that worry him when facing his present and deciding how you want to live it

A show with dramatic and fantastic tones that plays with perceptions of personal history, the passage of time, heritage and family ties, in order to revise their patterns.

Management notes

"Freedom is not to do anything but to be free from fear: If we seek security, we will always be subjects in some way. On the other hand, losing fear emancipates us»
Marina Garces

Our family defines us more than we seem to believe, despite the stubborn independence and uniqueness that anyone pursues as they grow up and try to find meaning in their own lives. The time of things assumes this premise or, at the very least, the fact that the context in which we grow up and our family establish what will be the conflicts and challenges to be resolved in order to take responsibility for our present and be able to feel as our the time we live in

But what do we build our present on? Does past experience condition us when imagining our future? Can we project ourselves beyond the references we have experienced? If there is an answer, what is certain is that it is discovered by walking.

The philosopher Marina Garcés explained in 2018 in a conference called "Losing fear, what margin do we give to hope?" that the most valuable legacy we can leave to those who come after us is the confidence to live and lose fear because not doing so is a condemnation to stay in the safe zone which, however, always keeps us subject to someone else. That is why, if we understand the future as a sum of the present that we want to live with a sense of our own, we need to face our fears to visit the past and thus understand where we come from, where we are and, perhaps, know where we want to go

Martí Costa Olivé

Dramaturgy and direction: Martí Costa Olivé
Interpretation: Julia Calzada Garcia, Lluís Català Blesa and Pol Forment Rivaud

Stage advice and external view: Clara Manyós
Lighting: Matthias Russo
Stage space and costumes: Roger Badia Rafart
Sound space: Gerard Vidal Barrena
Production: Special Productions, Sis Producciones and Martí Costa Olivé
Photographs: Olga Rivaud

Acknowledgments: Albert Tola and the "tensionaires" group, Aina Balasch and El Sortidor Civic Centre.

Show Winner of the Odisseu Scholarship Eolia i + D 2023