'Pablo d'Ors: Biography of Silence', with Lluís Homar

“YOU MIGHT PASTE YOURSELF IN DESIRE TO CONTEMPLATE”

There are events that only happen when nothing happens.

When we contemplate, we stand up for our humanity.

When we pause, we perform an artistic act.

When we interrupt, we witness wonder.

Contemplating Silence suggests something extraordinary in its premise: actor Lluís Homar, under the direction of Luis d’Ors, brings to the stage Biography of Silence, the essay by Pablo d’Ors that transformed meditation into an unexpected publishing phenomenon. On stage, a materialization of silent contemplation, a staging of suspension itself. Quite literally, something never before seen or heard. There is a deep curiosity to experience it.

Following the reading, the actor, author, and director will join in conversation about silence as a tool for personal transformation. There is a shared curiosity to discuss what has been experienced.

This is the inaugural proposal of Silence on Stage (Silencio a escena), a project by the Pablo d’Ors Foundation aimed at bringing contemplation out of its traditional religious spaces and integrating it into our daily lives—including the theater. Not to entertain us (entre-tenernos), they say, but to inner-tain us (intra-tenernos).

It will be ninety radical, slowed-down minutes. By braking together, we will slide in good company.

And back to square one. Still. Hope begins when everything else comes to a halt.

Pilar G. Almansa

Season 26/27 Dramaturg