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MCB-TV-6907

Maldito sea el hombre que confía en el hombre: un projet d'alphabétisation

After pain, comes distrust, like a consequence of the disaster. For Angélica Liddell, a "paradoxical anarchist," a "sociopath under control," as she defines herself, there is no salvation in society: the stage becomes the space where she "breaks the social pact," where solitary individuals come together to form a group united by the same hatred, the same distrust. Distrust, in its turn, causes the necessity of "renaming the world." This need coincided for Angélica Liddell with learning a new language: French. Hence a title partly taken from the Book of Jeremiah (Cursed be the man that trusteth in man) and partly written in French (un projet d'alphabétisation). The play was imagined as an alphabet primer: each letter is associated with a word that represents a hostile and destructive universe. However, this alphabet does not take us from A to Z. In fact, the play starts at the beginning of the end: "E as in Enfant [Child]." A sentence hovers over the show like a shadow: "I never knew a single child who became a good adult." The alphabet then becomes a game of massacre. Soon comes "L as in Loup [Wolf]." In a pretty forest in painted wood, the little girls who open the show will learn at their cost to enter adulthood. As time passes, the forest becomes peopled with lifeless animals; we discover inert, wounded bodies sculpted by the visual artist Enrique Marty. In Cria cuervos, the film by Carlos Saura, little girls, orphans of their childhood, dressed up as adults, played at pretending to be dead. In Angélica Liddell's show, once they are adults, they play again the killing of their childhood. "He who understands something of the cries of a child knows that fearsome forces lie dormant there," Wittgenstein says in the play. E as in Enfant, L as in Loup, M as in Méfiance [Distrust].

/ BESETZUNG & CREDITS /

Mit: Fabián Augusto Gómez, Lola Jiménez, Angélica Liddell, Carmen Menager, Gumersindo Puche

Akrobaten: Xiaoliang Cao, Jihang Guo, Sichen Hou, Haibo Liu, Changsheng Tian

Voice over: Christilla Vasserot

Mädchen: Ana Boston, Alba Braybrooke, Florence Baybrooke, Alicia Díez, Lara Lussheimer, Carmen Momplet, María Morales, Paloma Paniagua, Blanca Torrado

Bühnenarbeiter: Renald San Miguel

Beleuchtungstechniker: Octavio Gómez

Ton: Félix Magalhaes

Kostüm: Angélica Liddell

Skulptur: Enrique Marty

Beleuchtungsdesign: Carlos Marquerie

Taichi-Lehrer und Choreograph: Angel Martín Costalago

Bühnenbild: Angélica Liddell, Light Expo, Josune Cañas

Tierpräparation: Taxidermia Arte Ibérico, S.L.

Tierpräparate-Sammlung: Faustion Álvarez

Accessoires: Rosalía Polo

Disklavier-Techniker: Adam Casanova (Piano Importa)