Yo no tengo nombre / I have no name
El Conde de Torrefiel
Vibrating backpacks will be available for the performance on Saturday, 26 April at 11 am.
All performances will be in Catalan, except for the one on Thursday, 25 April at 5 pm, which will be in English.
This performance includes subtitles on a screen, which are essential to the experience.
To access the venue, there is a 10–15-minute uphill walk to Montsacopa volcano. Once at the top, you’ll need to make your way down into the crater via natural steps. And then we'll sit on the grass.
Due to renovation work, access to Montsacopa via the stairs will remain closed during the festival days.
For those with reduced mobility, a shuttle service will be available for the 11 am performance on Saturday (For further information and reservations contact with eforment@olot.cat). However, please note that reaching the crater is necessary to fully experience the show and that the interior of the crater is not wheelchair accessible.
A public toilet is available five minutes from the performance area.
Montsacopa volcano is part of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park – please help to take care of this protected environment.
What if nature could speak to us through a screen with subtitles? What would its monologue sound like? What do you think it would say to us? Can you imagine how it would address us, as humans?
El Conde de Torrefiel places the audience in a “natural”, open-air setting, in an environment suitable for the contemplation of a “subtitled” and captioned landscape, augmented by an LED screen displaying thoughts, questions, perspectives and revelations. The screen translates into words what nature has to say to humans today. The landscape fulfils all the elements of a play: it is the scenography, the light and sound, the narrator and the main character. A poetic operation that rotates the audience’s viewpoint by 180° so as to imagine how Nature might perceive humans. The text draws attention to the contradictions in the relationship between humans and their original source, through a discourse whose tone is part-divinatory and part-dreamlike, alternating between history and fiction, and inviting the audience on a voyage through the different eras of our world. It is a collective reading of the landscape that sheds light on the imperceptible and on some of the fictions that underpin our view of nature.
El Conde de Torrefiel is a Barcelona-based duo comprising Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert. El Conde de Torrefiel seeks to understand the existing connections between rationality and the meaning of things established by language, as well as abstract concepts, the collective imagination and symbolism relating to images. Their creations aim to create a visual and textual aesthetic where theatre, choreography, visual arts and literature coexist, focussing currently on the 21st century and the existing relationships between the private and the political. Their theatre reconstructs the fourth wall, allowing a return to sensuality through the notion of a space: their goal is not to touch the viewers directly but to arouse their curiosity, transforming them into active witnesses, conscious of what they receive and remaining as close as possible to their feelings and impressions. The duo’s theatre practice reports on the contemporary world but does not produce dogmatic ideas or political analysis, since, according to them, “theatre should not close itself off by stating, but open itself up by questioning.” This is a theatre of emotion, poetry and the present, where subjectivities can exist freely in opposition to the demanding ambiguity of our contemporary collective life.
Production:Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne / A Performing Landscape project – production Rimini Apparat, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Bunker and Mladi Levi Festival, Culturgest, Festival d’Avignon, Tangente St. Pölten – Festival für Gegenwartskultur, Temporada Alta, Zona K and Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d’Europa, and co-funded by the European Union. With the Berliner Festspiele
