Berta and Belén are getting older and believe that it is no longer enough to stage what makes them angry. Perhaps it is time to build, to take themselves seriously, to banish the irony that so characterises their generation, to tell a new origin myth. Prompted by the famous Santa Monica Meme Houses – one pink and purple, the other stark black – they will ask: how do we live with difference when it is forced upon us?
They will turn to the myth of Romulus and Remus, the brothers raised by a she-wolf who, according to Latin mythology, founded Rome and fought each other until only one was left alive. This contemporary re-imagining of the myth is about how we construct our identities today and aims to give us a new origin story.
In the end, it doesn’t matter whether it’s those two twins left in the river, or Moses, or Adam, or Berta and Belén, who have to live forever with the burden of explaining themselves together. History repeats itself: king or queen, in a country or city, or on a dance floor, it’s always the same.
The two co-creators of the Autodefensa series, Belén Barenys (also known as Rigoberta Bandini’s cousin) and the Catalan actress, playwright, scriptwriter and director Berta Prieto, propose this new adventure in the Escenes series at L’Auditori, an initiative to hybridise and blend talents.
A production by L’Auditori.
Created and directed by: Belén Barenys, Berta Prieto. Performing: Berta Prieto, Belén Barenys, Alvie Gual-Cibeira. Assistant director and production: Isabel Bassas Portús. Set and costumes: Paloma Lambert. Músic and sound space: Pol Clusella, Belén Barenys. Movement: Maria Jurado. Lighting: Carlos Bauzá. Video: Victor Diago.
