No em va fer Joan Brossa (Joan Brossa didn’t make me)

A play without actors? A musical performance without musicians? The voice of the poet Joan Brossa inspired this installation with the theme of landscape. This is a poem that the audience can walk through to explore different scenes created by everyday objects.

Plastic cups, spoons, typewriters, measuring tapes, plugs and combs, among other items are the stars of a set that transcends conventional theatre and stage design. It is a mechanical opera, a huge installation without any apparent narrative, a piece of object theatre with neither actors nor handlers, only a heap of objects which move on their own and create ever-changing landscapes.

They may be the misty forests of Wagner’s Parsifal, or the mountains on the Segre Front during the Spanish Civil War, or telluric, mythological volcanoes with hints of Mesopotamia. The audience will have to figure that out when they are confronted with this collection of objects which form a kind of walkable poem in which voices have been stripped of their bodies. The starting point of the installation is Joan Brossa’s earliest and least known prose and the sounds of his own performance poetry from the 1940s, recited by people with disabilities.

Maximum capacity: 25 people
Recommended age: For all audiences

Cabosanroque: Laia Torrents Carulla and Roger Aixut Sampietro

Photo: José Hevia