Jauría

It’s 3am on 7 July, 2016 during the San Fermín festivities. Five friends call themselves “La Manada”, or “The Wolf Pack”. The youngest still has to pass his initiation. After meeting a girl in the centre of Pamplona, they offer to walk her to her car, which is parked on the outskirts of the city. Along the way, however, one of them manages to open the main door of a building and he calls the others. They grab the young woman and take her inside. The rest of the story is part of our country's history.

After premiering to overwhelming success in 2019 (2020 Max Award for Best TheatrIcal Show and the 16th Ministry of Equality Anti-Gender Violence Culture Award, among others), Jauría is back five years on in a production with a brand-new cast. Written by Jordi Casanovas and directed by Miguel del Arco, the play, which has the audience on the edge of its seats, was developed entirely from transcriptions of the trial held from 2017 to 2019, with excerpts from the testimonies of the defendants and claimant which were published by different media outlets. The hard-hitting work of documentary fiction allows us to peer inside the minds of the victim and her attackers. The case turned the concepts of masculinity, consent and sexual aggression in our society on their head in a trial that set a new precedent in public debate and in our legislation.