Pere Riera
Casa Calores
Sala Beckett, Barcelona, Spain
Schedule
| 01.04.2025 | at 20:00 | Prešeren Theatre Kranj, hall |
Crew
Playwright and director: Pere Riera
Voiceover: Pablo Derqui
Set design: Sebastià Brosa
Lighting: Guillem Gelabert
Sound: Jordi Bonet
Costumes: Marian Coromina
Characterisation: Clàudia Abbad
Photography and promotional video: Kiku Piñol
Set design assistant: Laura Martínez Pi
Costume assistant: Gemma Pellejero
Assistant director: Xavi Buxeda i Marcet
Directing internship student (MUET): Lluís Victory
Acknowledgements: Estudis Oído, Antonio Cruanyes, Dolors Plana, Glòria Cruanyes and Jaume Plana
Cast
Jordi Boixaderas
Júlia Bonjoch
Arnau Comas
Eudald Font
Rosa Gamiz
Júlia Molins
About the performance
Summers are treasured seasons. And it is said that youth is the most treasured stage of life. And when you are young, one of the best things that can happen to you is spending your summers by the sea. If, on top of that, you were born in a village with boats and a breakwater, it is possible that all the summers of your youth are soaked in warm and salty memories. At Casa Calores, the years go by, the pot plants wither, and clothes cease to fly on the clotheslines. The grown-ups that survive grow old; and young people who couldn't wait to grow up fast, try to put a stop to the inexorable passage of time. A time that confronts them with the most treasured of dangers: the past.
Pere Riera is one of the essential playwrights on the current Catalan theatre scene. With works premiered at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya or at different theatres on the professional circuit, one of his first dramatic texts remained unfairly unseen on our stages. Casa Calores is a personal snapshot, produced with tenderness and sensitivity, of the passage of time in a house.
''A realistic theatre in which we even smell the whiff of damp, remarkably well directed and well performed and with the contribution of such star guests in secondary roles as Rosa Renom [...] and Jordi Boixaderas [...]. A real luxury.'' - Santi Fondevila, Diari Ara
''Riera recreates what Jaime Gil de Biedma poetized as "the last summer of our youth". Sebastià Brosa's realistic scenography enhances that microclimate that can only be conjured up from nostalgia.'' - Sergi Doria, ABC
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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