Programme 2023

Celso Giménez / La tristura

Zombie Girls

Programma soort: Main programme
Genre: Theatre
Herkomst: Madrid, Spain
Extra info: Dutch premiere

A problematic past is re-opened, a story of lingering shadows from the 20th Century, in this new work form one of Spain’s most dynamic emerging companies. Remembering doesn’t always have to be ugly.

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Entrance

€ 16,-

Duration

85 minutes

Language

Spanish, with English subtitles

Location

Grand Theatre

Accessibility

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Is it finally possible to let those 20th Century zombies go?

Every country has its traumas. In Spain it is a war fought in the 1930s between the grand-parents of a current generation of 20- and 30-year-olds; a so-called Third Generation after the War, and the first generation to be able to finally start talking about it. But what should be the language of that conversation? Meaningful philosophical words? Oh, so sad Songs?

On stage 3 young women go in search of the right language to embrace the impossible. To move forward requires a step away from the past. A delicate act of remembering becomes the celebration it might also be. Director Celso Giménez, of the remarkable La tristura theatre company, sets out a bold filmic stage of possibilities, in memory of his grand-father, Celso Villanueva, who amid war in the late 1930s stole the identity of a fallen comrade and kept it for the next 40 years to survive.

With after-talk on August 25th at 9PM.

This performance falls under the programme theme Time & Identity. When you visit 3 or more performances from one theme, you receive a 10% discount on your tickets. Read more here.

Friday 25 August

Available times

21:00

Saturday 26 August

Available times

21:00

About the artist

Around 2005, writer and theater maker Celso Gimenez, together with Itsaso Arana and Violeta Gil, formed La tristura, the collective with which he has been working ever since. With the company he starts an extensive research and creation project. Some of their performances are Future Lovers, Renaissance (both performed at Noorderzon) and CINE. He searches for the boundaries between documentary and fiction, presentation and representation and is convinced that intimacy and poetry are essentially political concepts

Credits

Thanks to Itsaso Arana, Mamen Adeva, Tanya Beyeler, Xavier Bobés, Max Brooks, Sergi Casero, Andrea Chapela, Olivia Delcán, Patricia Ferro, Violeta Gil, Pablo Gisbert, Marjan Gjorsheski, Elena Gómez, André Pronk, Pucho, Nuria Román, Jorge Sevillano, Elif Shafak, Sara Toledo, Miguel Ángel Villanueva and Covadonga Villanueva

Produced by Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque, Festival Grec, Grand Theater Groningen, Noorderzon Festival, MA scene nationale de Montbéliard and La tristura

Proyecto financiado por el INAEM, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte» «Financiado por la Unión Europea-Next Generation EU