Ex Julio Manriquecurrent director of Lliure de Barcelona, a director very curtido, with decades of assembly on his shoulders: American buffalo, Roberto Zuccochejovian classics… The patient doesn’t matter much Rivalby Emmanuel Carrère. After all, I’m used to the important ones. “But this is the mayor who met me,” he admitted to El Cultural.
If referee a Barker (Barquero; Ferrymanin English), a work by his admirer Jez Butterworth, performed at the Barcelona Theater on 5 February. De él ya hizo Jerusalemin 2019, with Pere Arquillué in the shoes of El Gallo, the anti-system established in the margins. And now he’s recording again with the British auteur, whom he admires for his ability to light up – as he does in Barker— 19 characters and none of them are minor. “If you leave one, the building disappears,” he points out.
Silence comes from ahí, from this dramatis personae very extenso. Expect 21 actors (four girls walk by). “Somos muchas almas en los ensayos,” says Manrique with guas. “But if you have a family that goes well with your job.
Not for nothing, this returned to a very numerous Irish clanCarney, left on a farm in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, under the Union Jack banner.
Y, oops It’s August 1981, which means the region is at war. En plenos DifficultiesThus we know a period in which violence escalated between Catholic Independents and Protestant Unionists.
The IRA after the British Army brutally suppressed a civil rights march in Derry in 1972 (Bloody Sunday), harshly hosted the “attackers”, who again responded to them with increasing continuity.
Maple discipline reigned in the Gaelic ranks. Those suspected of leaking information to the English could disappear overnight, as documented in detail by Patrick Radden O’Keefe in No dagas nada.
“The main character is the Earth as a source of life and also the contradictions associated with identity”, Julio Manrique
One of those missing people is Seamus Carney, herald of the paterfamilias Quinn (Roger Casamajor), former member of the IRA. Casado with Mary (Marta Marco) is in the care of six children who have preferred political controversy.
The appearance of Seamus’ corpse in the reabre heridas cloud. “It’s a story where Earth is the protagonistfor good and for evil, as a source of life, for the food we give and for disagreements related to identity”, summarizes Manrique, who admits that this can cause many conflicts in the public: “The country is vast, for terrorism, but also current, such as Ukraine, Gaza…”.
It is curious that Butterworth will be inspired by her peers, the actress Laura Donnelly: one of her sons went through the IRA. In 2017, she also represented the work at London’s Royal Court by embodying the story of the late Seamus, commissioned by Sam Mendes.
Manrique, in his version, in addition to Rolling and the Undertones, which come from the series in the text, ‘pincha’ The Pogues Themes. Celtic whimsy that comes to a hill in a mountain that you don’t really want to leave. I want to have a balance between custom and abstraction, with the land first. All entrances are welcome.
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