Performer, playwright and director. Three great talents bring to the Barcelona Grec Festival a monologue that combines voices from the past and the present, and which is both a war song and an oratorio for the victims, a dark poem that speaks of the violence of the battlefield but also of the violence of desire. For the Iliad begins with the desertion of two men who love each other and leave the battlefield ten years after the start of the war. Alberto Conejero shares with the audience the beauty, mystery and darkness of an epic poem through which he enters into dialogue with the human condition and links different eras. He does so through the character of Patroclus, Achilles’ comrade-in-arms.
The playwriting is by Alberto Conejero, a well-known playwright and poet who has won all kinds of awards, including the Nacional Prize for Dramatic Literature for La geometría del trigo in 2019 and the 2016 Max Prize for Best Playwright for La piedra oscura. He has translated and created the dramaturgy of many plays from classical literature and the Spanish Golden Age.
The production is directed by Xavier Albertí, a director, author, manager and composer with great musical knowledge who directed the Barcelona Grec Festival between 1996 and 1999 and was director of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya between 2013 and 2021. He has participated in the Grec numerous times since the 90s, most recently during the Grec 2022, when he premiered El burlador de Sevilla, a production with the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico.
As the sole performer of En mitad de tanto fuego, the actor Rubén de Eguía, who we have seen working with great directors such as Josep Maria Pou, Lluís Homar, Àlex Rigola, Calixto Bieito, Josep Maria Flotats, Xavier Albertí, Andrés Lima, Guillem Clua and Josep María Miró among others. On television, he has appeared in series such as Merlí, Cuéntame cómo pasó, Mentiras, Acacias 38 and Heridas.
A co-production of Miramedia and the Grec 2023 Festival de Barcelona.
With the collaboration of Teatros del Canal and Sala Becket.
At the representation of this show on July 23 (6.30 pm), there will be an audio-description and accompaniment service.
Dramaturgy: Alberto Conejero. Stage direction: Xavier Albertí . Performance: Rubén de Eguía. Lighting design: Xavier Albertí, Toni Ubach. Technician: Toni Ubach. Rest of the team: in progress. Executive producer: Miramedia Universe SL. Production coordination: Roser Soler, Elena Martínez. Photography: Maria La Cartelera, Ana Márkez.
