MONTE ISLA

How big is the gap between us and the world? Monte Isla uses this question to investigate the Western notion of landscape as a structure of thought and perception, as well as representation. In this piece, she explores the limits of the scenic framework. The theatrical artefact becomes a breathing ecosystem, a forest theatre, a grand puppet show that operates as a machine for generating fictional stories, where artifice becomes a wild instrument that breaks the mould of the central perspective.

The Monte Isla company, made up of Adrià Girona, Andrea Pellejero and Rut Girona explores the idea of landscape. A concept around which she has developed a series of practices based on inert choreography, everything that plays a part in the staging and is not a human body: the theatrical technique (sound, lighting and machinery), the performance space, the scenography and the props. To date, they have created three pieces that make up the Landscape Trilogy.

Direction and dramaturgy Andrea Pellejero and Adrià Girona / Interpreters and machinists Pol Para, Cèlia Legaz and Andrea Pellejero / Technical direction Uriel Ireland / Lighting design Gabriela Bianchi / Sound design Uriel Ireland y Adrià Girona / Machinery María Agut / Set design Monte Isla / Executive production Rut Girona / Administration, communication and distribution Monte Isla / Photography and audiovisuals Alessandra Bombacci y Camille Irrgang

Co-production Festival TNT / With the support Festival Sâlmon, WorkspaceBrussels, Ayuntamiento de Girona, el Canal de Salt, L’Estruch, Girona Kreas, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Teatre de Lloret. Compañía residente de la Naw Ivanow