Divadelna Nitra Festival

25 SEPTIEMBRE 2022

NEW DATES 2023

TEATRO JOVELLANOS, GIJÓN
23 DE MARZO

FESTIVAL FIND, BERLÍN
29 Y 30 DE ABRIL

TEATRO CENTRAL, SEVILLA
5 Y 6 DE MAYO

FESTIVAL DE ALMADA (PORTUGAL)
15, 16 Y 17 DE JULIO

SYNOPSIS

My mother always used to say the phrase "Keep this to yourself". She would say it to explain that something should not be talked about outside the house or outside the family.

I remember many gestures, from family or school authority, to extinguish desire. Gestures to keep silent. Gestures not to say, to keep quiet, to repress. Gestures that, in one way or another, continued the repression of the dictatorship.

Then, on 31 May 2021, I see the news in the newspaper. The door of the school I went to for 12 years, the cases of abuse from the 60's until today. If I was there, did I experience it too? What memory is there in my body of those years? What has been erased?

Perhaps there always comes a time when a rotten city, a rotten society, faces its truth. There always comes a moment when it is no longer possible to look away. When someone clearly asks, what kind of world we were given and what kind of world we are leaving behind, what unbearable inheritance we have been passing on for how long? What I carry one day I won't be able to carry any more. What I carry one day will fall on me. What I hide one day I will not be able to hide. That's why I speak, that's why this work exists. This will finally come out of here.

Pablo Fidalgo. Performing artist, writer and curator of live arts.

Pablo Fidalgo (Vigo, 1984). . He has lived in Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Palermo and Gijón. He founded and directed the now defunct Escenas do cambio festival in Santiago de Compostela for six years. With the publishing house Pre-textos he has published La educación física, Mis padres: Romeo y Julieta and Esto temía, esto deseaba. In theatre he has premiered O estado salvaxe, Habrás de ir a la guerra que empieza hoy, Daniel Faria, Anarquismos, Qualcosa nascerà da noi. Injuve Theatre Prize 2008 and Injuve Poetry Prize 2012. Runner-up for the Adonais Prize 2018. Fellow of the Spanish Academy in Rome 2018-2019.

His latest play is El libro de Sicilia (Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid, 2021). His latest published book is El perro en la puerta de la casa (Lilliputienses, 2021).

CAST

Gonzalo Cunill

ARTISTIC FILE

Text and direction Pablo Fidalgo Lighting design Bruno Santos Artistic collaboration Amalia Area Super 8 images Manuel Lareo Costas Audiovisuals Eduardo Tejada Artistic assistant Carla Cabané

Production ElenaArtesescenicas, Teatro de la Abadía, Wiener Festwochen.

With the collaboration of the Teatro Jovellanos de Gijón, Los Barros (Carlos Marquerie – Elena Córdoba), y EscuelaYeraVegadePas (residencia artística).

Thanks

Iñigo Dominguez Gabiña, Javier Álvarez Blázquez, José Telmo Pera, Xosé Viana.