Renacimiento
by La Tristura 

For the past few years, we’ve been working in bigger theatres, with better conditions, and we’ve been able to count on a worker’s team, on technicians, with whom we’ve developed more complex set ups. We look at this journey of lights, machinery, construction of the space, as a rite of passage. We’ve always thought that, inside this both mystical, and very specific wander, a scenic piece was hidden, one that we’d have to get ourselves into one day.
The time is now.
 
Renacimiento focuses on the microcosms of a stage set up and of the workers, the sort of interchange that is there generated, and that we think keeps some of the labour keys after the industrial revolution and before the digital one. A kind of cooperation still concrete and tangible.
 
Renacimiento poses the creation of a universe where we can talk about the almost 50 years of Spanish democracy. A landscape, sometimes hypnotic sometimes violent, where we can profoundly admire and question the capacity for creation, cooperation and the new ways of relating to one another, socially and intimately.
 
Renacimiento is drawn out of iconic moments taken from the history of our democracy, a period less than 50 years old. This landscape rebuilds, sometimes subtly and some others more graphically, the last years of our history. Not to judge it again, but to look at it from a different perspective, and so maybe, we can realise that we simply are living the childhood of our democratic history, and everything is still to be built.
 
Over the last years, after movements like May 15th, the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street, it seems we’ve started talking about some things that we were overlooking. But the dialogue, either out of a lack of habit, or a lack of real will, seems to be happening without a profound desire of exchange. It could be said that we only use the word “dialogue” so we can keep talking alone.
 
Theatre is where society confronts itself, its wounds and its darkness. And, at the same time, it’s a space for celebration, a strange oasis where human encounter is still possible, a real and tangible encounter, where we can feel that we aren’t alone in the world. We’ve always felt compelled by this duality. That’s why, in opposition to the recently recovered “Reconquista” concept, by the far right in Spain, we here bring that of the Renacimiento, which, in an innocent, almost naif way, reminds us that we’ll probably want to wake up tomorrow. And that, no matter the state we are in now that we’ve made it this far, life starts, again and unstoppably, right now.
 
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English, Greek