When I Grow up I Want to Be Fermín Jiménez

2013

There are people who live to work and there are people who work to live. And then there is … Fermín Jiménez. When I grow up I want to be Fermín Jiménez.

When I Grow up I Want to Be Fermín Jiménez. I want to be happy all the time and be as cool as him. I want to take life as a game. Be that short of money and take it as well as him. To relativize as a general rule. To take everything lightly. To not let life weigh me down. There are people who live to work and people who work to live. And then there is…Fermín Jiménez.

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Las Provincias

“Pont Flotant brings theatre into our lives with admirable style. Carpe diem…but as these geniuses propose.”

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Cartelera Turia

“(…) With delicacy, kindness, good humour and complicity with the audience, they turn the show into a unique and exclusive act.”

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La República Cultural

“Pont Flotant hits the spot once again, with a critical and positive text which doesn’t hide anything that has to be shown, it just suggests we start walking, because if we don’t aspire to be like our Fermín Jiménez and we actually attempt to be him, that’s all you can do.”

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Synopsis

When I Grow up I Want to Be Fermín Jiménez is an ode to idle times, to boredom, to living peacefully and cheerfully, to friends, to family to hobbies, to things which really fulfil us. It is about the need to work in current society and the imposition – normally social – to dedicate more hours to work than to any other activity in your free time, be it for fun or with family, etc. It is about how we never stop building, generating, creating, when we are surrounded by excesses, the only thing being that they are badly distributed.

Cast and crew

Creation:
Pont Flotant

Actors:
Àlex Cantó and Jesús Muñoz

Lighting:
Àlex Cantó and Marc Gonzalo

Scenography:
Joan Collado

Set builder:
Santi Montón

Graphic design:
Joan Collado

Audiovisual and installation:
Pont Flotant and Fermín Jiménez

Photographs:
José Ignacio de Juan

With thanks to:
Daniel Abreu and Espai Inestable

Where we have performed

Transdrama, Méjico
Ciclo de Teatro Iberoamericano, Valparaíso, Chile
Muestra de Autores Contemporáneos, Alicante
Escena Abierta, Burgos Inmediaciones, Pamplona
Gira de la Red de Salas Alternativas de España Teatro Rialto, Valencia
Corral de Comedias de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
Centro Cultural Lugaritz, Donostia
Sala La Cuarta Pared, Madrid
Sala La Fundición, Bilbao T
eatro Victoria, Tenerife

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Awards

Candidate for Newcomer Performance. Premios MAX 2015