One of the big names on the alternative theatre scene in Buenos Aires is also a familiar one on Barcelona's stages: Nelson Valente, a playwright we who we’ve already been seen in the city a few times, most recently with Sólo llamé para decirte que te amo, and Gossos, which premièred at the Grec 2020. In Silvia, he tells the story of a woman who when she was young, experienced a passionate love that was forbidden in her country at that time, and so was forced to move to Barcelona and build a very different life. Now older and recovering from a serious illness, she is reunited with her children, her grandchildren and her country while facing an existential crisis. Family, romantic love, longing. The play talks about all this and more.
This show is part of a joint collaboration project between authors and directors from Catalonia and Argentina. It's been designed to be staged between three local theatres as part of the 'On el teatre batega' project: El Maldà (La paella del dijous), Sala Flyhard (Silvia) and Sala Versus Glòries (Rovira versus Rodríguez). Each venue will be hosting a different production, but with the same characters: come and see all three, and you'll understand the whole of the story they tell. For now the plays will be shown in Barcelona, with the intention of fostering bilateral artistic relations through the exchange of performing arts professionals in production and co-production projects. In the near future, the shows produced as part of this initiative will also be playing in theatres in Buenos Aires.
An On el teatre batega, Sala Flyhard, El Maldà and Sala Versus Glòries production.
Coproduced by Grec 2023 Festival de Barcelona, el Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya i Iberescena.
Dramaturgy and direction: Nelson Valente. Performing: Lide Uranga, Julian Ponce, Mayra Homar, Gabriel Beck Set: Elisenda Pérez. Costumes: Maria Albadalejo. Lighting Design: Xavi Gardés. Soun Design: Damià Duran. Light and sound technician: Maria Martín. Trainee student (direction): Mar Mañez (Timbal). Trainee student (production): Anna Castañé (Formació Xarxa de Productores). Trainee student (scenography): Quim Algora (IT), Production coordination: Montse Farrarons, Clara Cols. Executive production: Jofre Blesa, Marina Marocs, Sergio Matamala. Artistic coordination: Adrià Aubert, Jofre Blesa, Sergio Matamala. Communications and press: Rafaela Rivas, Ester Cánovas, Anna Castillo. Elisenda Riera.
