How do we live knowing that one day we will no longer be alive? A total eclipse as a metaphor, as a preview, as a rehearsal for an insurmountable fate: the end of our days.
An offering that impregnates ritual with humour, that mixes the transcendental with the everyday, shifting from the intimate and personal towards the social.
A hymn to immensity. A theatrical exercise that endeavours to relativize life, to live with perhaps greater awareness of the minuscule instant that our existence represents in the entire history of humanity.
Synopsis
The air turns cold and the sky begins to grow dark. They say that some dogs howl and that the bees are crowding together and collapsing the entrance to their hives. Some birds fly around in a confused state. Time stands still. Everything is silent. Everywhere is dark. Everything is suspended… not knowing what will happen…with the sense that we could remain in this infinite night forever… But a few seconds later, perhaps a few minutes, or it could be years, generations, millennia, eons of existence, the day arrives once again. We are invaded by a feeling of profound emotion and we sense the privilege of having witnessed an incomprehensible event. We have attended the dress rehearsal of a possible end.
Pont Flotant once again becomes entangled in the threads of the memory to question how we behave, how we react, how we educate, how we prepare ourselves when confronted with something inevitable and irreversible such as death. In short, how do we live knowing that one day we will no longer be alive?
Cast and crew
Dramaturgy and direction:
Àlex Cantó, Joan Collado, Jesús Muñoz, Pau Pons (Pont Flotant)
Actors:
Àlex Cantó and Jesús Muñoz
Lighting design:
Marc Gonzalo (AII)
Sound design:
Adolfo García
Set design and costumes:
Pont Flotant
Graphic design
Joan Collado
Set construction:
Los Reyes del Mambo
Stage Machinery and Management:
Yolanda García and Santi Montón
Technicians on tour:
Juan Serra, Javi Vega, Josep Ferrer
Technical coordination:
Juan Serra
Distribution:
Inma Expósito, Fiona Maxence and Rafa Jordán. Pro21 Gestió.
With thanks to:
Berta M. Pérez, Eulogi Osset, Xavier Serrano, Javi Vela, Roser y Rafel.
Produced by Pont Flotant and Rambleta
Where we have performed
Premiere at Teatre de La Rambleta, Valencia, november 2021
Paranimf UJI de Castelló
Teatro de La Abadía (Madrid)
Feria de Teatro y Danza de Huesca 2022
Festival FIOT 2022, Carballo
Festival FEST 2022, Sevilla
Production
Collaborators
TOTAL ECLIPSE has been given the amount of 23.400€, as a part of the program of grants of Institut Valencià de Cultura de la Generalitat Valenciana.
Tour
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