Una mena d'Alaska © Marta Mas

UNA MENA D’ALASKA

BY HAROLD PINTER DIRECTION IVAN BENET

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07/05 — 01/06/25
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Espai Lliure

Show completed

Timetable

Wednesday to Friday at 19.30 p.m
Saturday at 17.30 p.m. and 20.30 p.m. NEW!
Sunday at 18.30 p.m.

Running time

1 h 20’ approx.

Place

Espai Lliure

Language

In Catalan

Price

€12 - €32 / Preview 06/05, €12 (sold out)

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone
30/05 audiodescription and adapted over-titles
(visibility from stand B)

Debate

22/05 after the show moderated by Queco Novell

RELATED ACTIVITY
13/05 Awakenings
by Penny Marshall (1990, 121')
in the cycle Per amor a les Arts
by the Filmoteca de Catalunya

Attention

Smoke effects are used in this performance.

A play by Harold Pinter based on the clinical cases of the neurologist Oliver Sacks directed by Ivan Benet with dance by Andrés Corchero. The story of a woman who comes to after being asleep for 29 years.

Once I read this text by Harold Pinter, the urge and the need to join dance and theatre took shape as I plunged into the world that the author creates. Pinter wrote an enigmatic yet emotional piece about the fascinating, unexpected awakening of a woman who suffered from lethargic encephalitis. The play takes place amidst that recognisable state in which reality and dream coexist in parallel and life and death are virtuously intertwined, so much that one doubts whether what one dreamed was actually experienced and whether what one experienced was actually a dream. It’s an incredible, poetic text whose political underpinning can be subtly glimpsed like the bottom of a still lake, inviting us to reflect on a slumbering society and the imminent awakening from this lethargic period. How long will we sleep?
Ivan Benet

CAST

Mireia Aixalà Deborah

Andrés Corchero soul

Carles Martínez Hornby

Aida Oset Pauline

TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH

Cristina Genebat

CHOREOGRAPHY

Andrés Corchero

COSTUMES

Maria Armengol

MAKE UP

Núria Llunell

LIGHTING

Jaume Ventura

VIDEO

Anna Oset

SOUND SPACE

Damien Bazin

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Aida Oset

DIRECTOR ASSISTANT

Rita Molina Vallicrosa

SETTING ASSISTANT

Bàrbara Roig

TRAINEE ASSISTANTS ITB

Pau Sanroman (costumes) and Marina Valls (direction)

AND THE TEAMS OF

Teatre Lliure

THANKS TO

Núria Botia, Iris Abancó, Marine Zimmer, Violeta Sugranyes, Pepe Hernández and Òptica Sanabre

MENTION

Following our Sustainability Plan, materials from other productions of the Teatre Lliure have been reused for the construction of the scenography.

A kind of Alaska was inspired by Awakenings by Oliver Sachs MD, first published in 1973 by Gerald Duckworth and Co.

PRODUCTION

Teatre Lliure

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