The most effective description of the works of Argentine director Rodrigo García is that they “explode like bombs”. Garcia is an iconoclastic director, video-maker and performer, who has achieved international renown, which has taken him all over the world, winning the 2009 Europe Theatre Prize in the New Theatrical Realities category. Each of his productions with his Carnicería Teatro company consolidate a surprising theatrical language, where the bodies create/demolish the new rituals of everyday life. Versus, which made its debut at the last Autumn Festival of Paris, opens up on a stage dominated by a pile of torn books, and where a screen spits out casual images, anticipating the sort of flow of consciousness that flows through the entire play: it starts talking about pizza and football and goes on to the most tragic aspects of History, touching on all our contemporary obsessions, from the overpowering presence of images to the standardisation of bodies, and consumption of mass symbols.
devised and directed by Rodrigo García
with Patricia Álvarez, Ike Wahl, Rubén Escamilla, Juan Loriente, Nuria Lloansi, Isabel Ojeda, David Pino, Daniel Romero, Víctor Vallejo
lighting Carlos Marqueríe/sound Marc Romagosa/costumes Belén Montoliu
video Ramón Diago/music David Pino, Chiquita y Chatarra y .tape.
Societad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC) (Spain)
with the participation of Laboral Teatro, Gobierno del Principado de Asturias
