Performance "THE SMOKE SELLER"

Description

As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Comediants, we propose a small/medium-sized show, in the form of a monologue, performed by Joan Font.

THE SMOKE SELLER is a theatrical review of the artistic and personal life of Joan Font, creator and director of Comediants, starting with his birth –and we will hear the bells of Olesa de Montserrat, where he was born, announcing it- and ending with the announcement of his death, which will come through a phone call and another ringing of bells.
Throughout the show, Joan will go through, in a very theatrical way, the most important and significant episodes and aspects of his long artistic and vital journey, and will make us understand and participate in the process of creating the stage and artistic language of Comediants.
Accompanied by projections, music and light effects and using elements that he will take out of the suitcase with which he will have entered the stage, Joan will take us on a long journey with him without leaving the theatre.
He will get inside imaginary and real giants and big heads;
he will play with the masks and the various characters he has created with them;
he will make Chinese shadows appear;
he will make us relive the closing ceremony of the Barcelona Olympic Games and the farewell to Cobi, making paper boats fly that he will have previously taught the spectators to build; he will receive an unexpected gift, he will interview himself;
he will make a small number of puppets recalling the puppet theatre that his parents performed many Sundays at home;
he will talk to us about the improvisations of the first Comediants show, “Non Plus Plis”, and the invention of his own theatrical language that he has developed until the last operas that he has directed in Europe and America; he will make us experience the jewel, the fear and the tears of the performances of “Dimonis” made all over the world... and, above all, he will make us laugh, get excited and live, in a direct way, full of surprises, his unusual and extraordinary artistic and personal journey. Directed by Joan himself, EL VENDEDOR DE HUMO is a creation by him and the scriptwriter Piti Español.
DURATION 70'

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