El valor de res

More than your run-of-the-mill production or show, El valor de res promises to be a multidisciplinary performance experience as it incorporates the performing arts, literature, technology and nature, with the act of reading a book as the core theme. How is that possible? You will be invited to walk through a natural space in the city. At some point, you will find a book and a chair waiting for you. Sit down and - that's right! - read. You’ll do so in a group, in a kind of quiet coven devoted to the memory of the women who used to meet secretly in remote places, free from the presence of men, to share knowledge, especially on the world of plants, who ended up being labelled witches. 

A book, as a ‘plant memory’ in the words of Umberto Eco, is the theme of an experience in which the spectators sit down to read, knowing that anything might happen around them. All with the unique language of a company that proposes scenarios in which tradition, technology and ecological awareness, concepts that initially seem very distant, find common ground, forms of coexistence and ways of enhancing one another. The proposal uses technology as a narrative element, while valuing the natural context and challenging the audience both collectively and individually.

It is the new proposal from the Cia. Pagans, a performance collective which has particularly strong ties to technology after turning mobile phones and nature into the accomplices of spectators in works like Paraules que trenquen ossos, which won the 23rd Performing Arts Critic's Award. 

A production by Cia. Pagans, FiraTàrrega and Fira Mediterrània.

With the support of the Street Arts Platform and the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia.

This show has received Carlota Soldevila creation grants from the Teatre Lliure.

Show in residence at the Teatre Tantarantanta with the support of Àtic, Associació Teatral d’Innovació i Complicitats, Festivales de los Castillos and Festival de Llegendes de Catalunya.

In conjunction with the MUHBA Vil·la Joana - Casa Museu de Jacint Verdaguer.

The venue is not accessible for people with reduced mobility.

Meeting point is located at the access to Baixador de Vallvidrera Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat station.

Notice that this is an outdoors show in a natural space.

For audiences over 12 years old.

Authorship: Cia. Pagans. Direction: Núria Clemares. Lighting design: David Bofarull. Sound design: Rafel Plana. Technological direction and design: Marc Fernández. Programming: Gabriel Belvedere, Nicolás Saganias, Marc Fernández. Performing: Mònica Mar, Núria Clemares, Marc Fernández. Book design: Let it Press. Book construction: Thomas Roper, Let it Press. Illustration: Alba Marina Rivera. Book writing:Núria Clemares. Audiovisual design: Marc Fernández. Costumes design: Mònica Mar. Production: Arnau Vinós. Graphic design: Manu Croissier. Photography: David Perelló. Video: Videostudi.