PSiRC

A show featuring two acrobatic clowns who attempt to build a shelter with 2,000 tent poles. Two contemporary circus artists, now getting on in years, suffer a physical, spiritual and/or psychological melt-down. They find themselves helpless, without a show and homeless. On discovering the true extent of the pain of their injuries, to body and soul, they are forced to act as clowns to resolve their difficulties. The stage is set for problematic humour. The performers sort through the rubble of memory, looking for the fragments that will enable them to build a new home.

Formed in 2011, the PSIRC company has created several shows around a central axis of research on the limits and specificities of the language of the circus. Acrometria, which toured twelve countries in Europe and Latin America for seven years, with more than 200 performances, won the 2016 FETEN award in the night shows category, the Freiburger Leiter award for the best street show at the 2016 Kulturbörse Freiburg, the 2012 Zirkólika best new campaign award and the FAD award “Applause for Emerging Creation” in 2013. Later, they presented El meu nom és Hor in 2018, co-produced by Mercat de las Flors, and Després de tot in 2022, which won the Zirkólika special award. The company recently premiered Coses petites and Circ de LLaun4.

Espectacle per a 2 pallassos acròbates que intenten construir un refugi amb 2000 varetes de tendes d’acampar. Dos artistes de circ contemporani, ja madurets, pateixen una catàstrofe física, espiritual i/o psicològica. Es veuen desemparats, sense espectacle, sense casa. Després de constatar el dolor de les ferides rebudes, al cos i a l’ànima, es veuen obligats a l’ús del pallasso per curar-se. L’humor problemàtic està servit. Els intèrprets travessen les runes de la memòria, cercant els fragments que els permetin aixecar una nova llar.

Circus artists Wanja Kahlert, Anna Pascual, l’adolescent Ot Bretones / Direction Rolando San Martín / Dramaturgy  Anna Pascual, Wanja Kahlert, Rolando San Martín / Costume Bàrbara Glaenzel / Sound space LLuis Casahuga / Distribution Nicoletta Battaglia / Production Berta Pascual Fernandez /  Producion and distribution La Utópica / Thanks to Magí Serra, Judith Pujol
Coproducction El Canal de Salt, Centre de Creació d’Arts Escèniques; Antic Teatre / With the support La Central de Circ, Fabra i Coats fàbrica de creació, Ajuntament de Barcelona, L’Obrador espai de creació, Escena Poblenou, Artesorio 147, Cardant Cultura, Teatre de Lloret, La Grainerie-Fabrique des Arts du Cirque et de la Itinerànce, Aula de Teatre de Mataró