Theatrum mundi: life as a theatrical representation where all beings are characters to be played. Under this baroque metaphor, the local theaters of Santa Coloma, Carro de Baco and La Colmena announce their first collaboration in Minimum: Short theater in Santa Coloma de Gramenet.
This is the first collaboration between the two companies, celebrating World Theatre Day. “We do it for the love of art, in this case the world of theatre”, explains Joan Fernández, director of La Colmena, and Germán Madrid, director of Carro de Baco. The celebration will be next March 28 and 29, a whole weekend to enjoy theatre. Mínim, as its name indicates, opts for short-duration pieces (between 15 and 30 minutes), but with the maximum artistic quality required. The result will be a show divided into two halves and two rooms, with a single common thread: brief theatre.
Carro de Baco, is a company from Santa Coloma that specializes in the promotion of short theatre. The Santa Coloma entity will stage winning and recognized texts from the international competition Short Theatre Prize, such as Second Chance S.A by the Santa Coloma author Andrea Pérez, and An Unexpected Clarity, by the winner of the XII edition, the Canarian writer Manuel Alejandro del Rosario. La Colmena, in contrast, will present three pieces of theatre of the absurd, in the vein of authors like Eugène Ionesco or Samuel Beckett, with acidic humor, improbable situations, conflicts that unravel and a critical, often political, gaze that shakes the spectator.
The public will see in total five short theatre plays where the route will begin at La Colmena. When their play finishes, the spectators will be accompanied with a theatricalized detail until the Carro de Baco room (2 min away from the venue).
“We are going to cross the audience. Let the regular spectators of one venue discover the other and vice versa,” explain the two directors. The capacity will be 30 people, with a price of four euros for the Friends of the theater of La Colmena and Carro de Baco, who will have preference. For the general public, the entrance will be eight euros. An intimate experience, for lovers of dramaturgy.
