Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
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Matarile
Institution
The Madrid premiere of Matarile Teatro’s latest creation, pioneers of innovative theatre in Spain and an indisputable benchmark on the contemporary performance scene.
This production has been presented at FITO - the Ourense International Theatre Festival - on 7 and 8 October.
“I believe it’s time to go back. And since you can never go back to any place, I’ll put some makeup on my corpse and return with it to a personal paradise or hell. My aim here is not to position myself as a victim of any situation or eventuality. My meaning is that I’ll stop hiding, silencing and masking the most sordid aspects of what is known as reality, which some call fantasy.
Must it be stressed that everything will be made up and that presumed innocence is inadmissible here?
As Deleuze once said: Si vous êtes pris dans le reve de l`autre, vous êtes foutu! (If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked!)”, Matarile.
About Matarile Matarile has been creating groundbreaking stage performances for 30 years. Founded in Santiago de Compostela by Ana Vallés and Baltasar Patiño, it has staged over 30 shows in several cities including Paris, Edinburgh, Boston and Leipzig, and has received over twenty awards and special mentions in Europe.
A pioneer of innovative theatre in Spain, Matarile is an indisputable benchmark on the contemporary performance scene, working miracles in terms of making audience members feel they are participants in something unique and inimitable. In fact, the company doesn’t seek an audience, but rather partners.
In 1993 it launched Teatro Galán in Santiago de Compostela, which was devoted to promoting and offering a programme of contemporary theatre and dance in Galicia until 2005, and for 12 years it has organised the En Pé de Pédra International Dance Festival. Matarile creates an intriguing wild and poetic language which, as if it were an umbilical cord connected to the audience, injects doses of irony, music, fellowship, humour and reflection.
Mario Moutinho explains it in the following manner: “Independent theatre, when indeed it is such, has the ability to create contemporary productions with a strong element of social intervention, tackling individual and collective drama and conflicts in today’s society, developing these themes dramatically or bringing contemporary writers to the stage. Persisting. Because as Slavoj Žižek says in a quote in the work Antes de la Metralla, “the opposite of existence is not non-existence, but rather persistence”.
Credits Direction: Ana Vallés
Performers: Mónica García, Nuria Sotelo, Celeste González, Ricardo Santana, Oscar Codesido and Ana Vallés
Lights and Space: Baltasar Patiño
Assistants director: Jacobo Bugarín and Alfonso Míguez
Video: Rubén Vilanova
Design: Baltasar Patiño
Production: Juancho Gianzo
Produced by: Matarile Teatro, La Montiel, AGADIC - Xunta de Galicia, Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria
“I believe it’s time to go back. And since you can never go back to any place, I’ll put some makeup on my corpse and return with it to a personal paradise or hell. My aim here is not to position myself as a victim of any situation or eventuality. My meaning is that I’ll stop hiding, silencing and masking the most sordid aspects of what is known as reality, which some call fantasy.
Must it be stressed that everything will be made up and that presumed innocence is inadmissible here?
As Deleuze once said: Si vous êtes pris dans le reve de l`autre, vous êtes foutu! (If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked!)”, Matarile.
About Matarile Matarile has been creating groundbreaking stage performances for 30 years. Founded in Santiago de Compostela by Ana Vallés and Baltasar Patiño, it has staged over 30 shows in several cities including Paris, Edinburgh, Boston and Leipzig, and has received over twenty awards and special mentions in Europe.
A pioneer of innovative theatre in Spain, Matarile is an indisputable benchmark on the contemporary performance scene, working miracles in terms of making audience members feel they are participants in something unique and inimitable. In fact, the company doesn’t seek an audience, but rather partners.
In 1993 it launched Teatro Galán in Santiago de Compostela, which was devoted to promoting and offering a programme of contemporary theatre and dance in Galicia until 2005, and for 12 years it has organised the En Pé de Pédra International Dance Festival. Matarile creates an intriguing wild and poetic language which, as if it were an umbilical cord connected to the audience, injects doses of irony, music, fellowship, humour and reflection.
Mario Moutinho explains it in the following manner: “Independent theatre, when indeed it is such, has the ability to create contemporary productions with a strong element of social intervention, tackling individual and collective drama and conflicts in today’s society, developing these themes dramatically or bringing contemporary writers to the stage. Persisting. Because as Slavoj Žižek says in a quote in the work Antes de la Metralla, “the opposite of existence is not non-existence, but rather persistence”.
Credits Direction: Ana Vallés
Performers: Mónica García, Nuria Sotelo, Celeste González, Ricardo Santana, Oscar Codesido and Ana Vallés
Lights and Space: Baltasar Patiño
Assistants director: Jacobo Bugarín and Alfonso Míguez
Video: Rubén Vilanova
Design: Baltasar Patiño
Production: Juancho Gianzo
Produced by: Matarile Teatro, La Montiel, AGADIC - Xunta de Galicia, Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria
Artistic team and specifications
- Duracion
- At least 90 minutes with no interval
- Idioma
- Spanish