El Mar
Xavier Bobés i Alberto Conejero
A few months after his arrival at Bañuelos de Bureba, Antoni Benaiges pays a printing house and a gramophone out of pocket. Since that year, the children from the rural school publish their emotions, dreams and thoughts. On January 1936, the students publish “El mar. Visión de unos niños que no lo han visto nunca” [The see. Vision of children who have never seen it]. The notebook “contains, in verse format, rather than prose, the expression of the students on how they imagine the see, their fears and their dreams”. The teacher promises them that, during that summer, he will bring them to Catalonia to discover the see. On the 25th July in 1936 Benaiges was executed. His promise will not be fulfilled.
The piece proposes a device in which the objects, the poem and the documental material live without hierarchy.
Artsitic sheet
Authorship: Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero
Direction: Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero
With: Xavier Bobés i Sergi Torrecilla
Dramaturgy: Alberto Conejero, drawn from texts written by children from the school Bañuelos de Bureba, their teacher Antoni Benaiges, Marina Garcés and Alberto Conejero.
Stage space: Pep Aymerich
Audiovisuals: Albert Coma
Sound space: Julià Carboneras
Lighting: Jou Serra i Mario Andrés Gómez
Art design: Anna Auquer
Painting: La Beren
Documental advisory and photography: Sergi Bernal
Audio testimonies: Documentary “El retratista” from Alberto Bougleux and Sergi Bernal
Assistant student from Escola Eòlia: Natàlia Jiménez
Executive production: Imma Bové
In collaboration with Martí Sales for the Catalan translation of texts.
Acknowledgements: Benaiges family, Javier Iglesias, José Luis Bernaldo de Quirós, Elisa Rapado Jambrina.
Production: Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and Xavier Bobés
Supported by ICEC, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, L’Animal a l’Esquena and Festival FITT de Tarragona.
