Ceramic is the main protagonist, both as a material and as a gesture, of a great inquiry by the company Baró d’evel into our identity.  Qui som? (Who are we? pictured. Photo: François Passerini) is the question they ask on stage. And they answer with the languages of poetry, circus and movement, but also with a great sense of humour, acrobatics and? with ceramics. From 25 to 27 July, at Teatre Grec.

This is the latest creation of the company Baró d’evel, made up of the Catalan Blaï Mateu Trias and the French Camille Decourtye. They are the authors of shows (in Barcelona we have seen Là, Falaise and A tocar) that are born from the personal world that these two creators have created in their home in the south of France. The director Salvador Sunyer visited them recently and filmed a documentary about the company (and the family!) that we will soon see.

Meanwhile, we will attend a stage performance directed by Mateu and Decourtye, performed by Lucia Bocanegra, Noëmie Bouissou, Camille Decourtye, Miguel Fiol, Dimitri Jourde, Chen-Wei Lee and Rita Mateu Trias, alternating with Amir Ziegler, Yolanda Sey, Julian Sicard, Marti Soler, Maria Caroline Vieira, Guillermo Weickert and Blaï Mateu Trias. As collaborators in the movement, the members of the company Mal Pelo Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis and, as collaborator in the dramaturgy, Barbara Métais-Chastanier.

An overflowing vital energy and vibrant colours will fill the stage in a performance that is the first of a triptych and that uses, as we say, ceramics and clay in an exploration of the ways in which we human beings believe and work together. 

The assemblage is a scenic cerimony full of suggestive images. ‘Our inner worlds, our intimate territories, are the terrain of the social landscapes to come. Therefore, if the result is already here, inside our bodies, if it is already being manufactured in us, we try to bring to light everything that preserves joy’, say the authors and authors of the show, which seeks to bring to the stage everything that, inside each one of us, keeps optimism alive and makes us sing and dance.

Qui som? is a show with international co-producers that has been the company’s first appearance at the Avinyó Festival, which this year shares several shows with the Grec. It will be the first part of a triptych, a group work about the group, which will be followed by the solo show Qui soc? The trilogy will end with a plastic installation of fang cuit, On som?, which will use craftsmanship to take us on a journey of sound.

If you don’t want to miss Baró d’evel‘s latest work, come to Teatre Grec to see Qui som?