It's Raining in Barcelona
From: Sunday, 9th January 2011
To: Saturday, 29 January 2011
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Synopsis
Barcelona. Raval quarter. Summertime. Pouring rain. A prostitute who enjoys reading Dante and cries in front of paintings. A pimp who eats take away food all day long. A client who pays just 'to look' and waits for his wife's death. A tale of a dark and bizarre triangle formed by these three characters has as a backdrop this peculiar proximity between the hidden city consumerism and the world of high culture.
Our Review:
12 January 2011
If you’re not knowledgeable about contemporary Spanish drama, you’re certainly not alone. In a characteristically adventurous piece of programming, the Cock Tavern presents the UK premiere of the young Catalan playwright Pau Miro, who’s a big shout in his homeland and now breaking out to a wider audience.
There’s a sensuality to Miro’s imagery mixed with a sense of the valuelessness of modern existence. High culture nestles alongside the detritus of contemporary life in It’s Raining in Barcelona, neatly captured in the central image of fragments of poetry posted on sweet wrappers.
Lali is a small-time prostitute, living with her pimp boyfriend, and yearning for more from life, although at this stage she can’t distinguish between Dante and Rimbaud and has a penchant for buying cheap while selling cheap. There’s a pervasive presence of nasty deodorant and MacDonalds debris.
If the play veers...
Cast
Lewis Hayes (Carlos)
Rebecca Herod (Lali)
Matteau Varda (David)
Creative
Pau Mirio (Author)
Adam Spreadbury-Mahler (Producer)
Berislav Juraic (Producer)
Sharon G. Feldman (Translation)
Tanja Pagnuco (Director)
Richard Hillier (Lighting)
Nick Jones (Sound)
Robyn Winfield-Smith (assistant) (Director)
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