How is death managed and situated in our societies? What economy surrounds our transformations and what mechanisms regulate them in a hedonist world that is positive to the point of madness, glorifies youth and condemns old age? The members of Las Huecas ask themselves these questions with one very clear intention: to find instruments that eschew the conventional story about death. The group was in the process of being created when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, which changed everything everywhere. In the Western world, especially, we discovered that we were not immortal, and general panic ensued. With this as our current backdrop, maybe it’s best that someone like Las Huecas brings to the stage a proposal that combats the way we look at death and, by extension, at life.
Those That Should Not Die has recently won the Novaveu de la Crítica Jove award at the XXIV Premis de la Crítica d’Arts Escèniques [Performing Arts Critics’ Awards]. As a group, Las Huecas was born in 2016 and is comprised of four actresses, a technician and a producer. With a biographical perception and body politics, they opt for an aesthetic of detachment and alienation from reality, they expose theatre codes, and they commit themselves to the poetics of failure.
A La Infinita de l’Hospitalet (l’Hospitalet de Llobregat), Antic Teatre (Barcelona) and Festival TNT (Terrassa) co-production.
Created by: Col·lectiu Las Huecas Performed by: Júlia Barbany, Esmeralda Colette, Núria Coromines, Andrea Pellejero Technician: Sofía A. Martori Sound space composition: Adrià Girona Lighting design: Ana Rovira Artefacts: Dani García Assistence in grieving processes: Júlia S. Cid, part of ‘Som Provisionals’ Funeral assistance: Núria Isern Produced by: Esther Fernandes Photography: Mila Ercoli, Roc Pont
