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The sala beckett and the zero degree of theatricality: From Lluïsa Cunillé to Carles Batlle

Pages 370-384 | Published online: 22 Sep 2010
 

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1. See Santiago Fondevila, José Sanchis Sinisterra: L'espai fronterer (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, 1998), p. 105.

2. The summer of 1995 marked the date of the Teatro Fronterizo's final production at the Beckett, Marsal Marsal, a monologue in Spanish, written by Sanchis Sinisterra and performed by Luis Miguel Climent. Marsal Marsal[with Perdida en los Apalaches] (Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 1999).

3. José Sanchis Sinisterra, ‘El Teatro Fronterizo: Manifiesto (latente)’, in Manuel Aznar Soler (ed.), La escena sin límites: fragmentos de un discurso teatral, preface by Juan Mayorga (Ciudad Real: Ñaque, 2002), pp. 33–37 (p. 37). The manifesto was originally published in Primer Acto, 186 (September–October 1980), 88–89. See also, Aznar Soler, ‘Introducción’, in José Sanchis Sinisterra, Ñaque / ¡Ay, Carmela! (Madrid: Cátedra, 1991), pp. 9–101. All translations are my own.

4. Sanchis Sinisterra, ‘El Teatro Fronterizo’, p. 35.

5. I am grateful to Toni Casares and Carles Batlle for providing me with the opportunity to visit them in Argelaguer. All descriptions of the productions herein referenced derive from my personal experience as a spectator.

6. Una pluja irlandesa, in Escena, 22 (1995), 37 – 41. The date of composition is given in parenthesis.

7. See, for example, Helena Encinas, ‘“Tríptico”, el fracàs de la paraula’, Avui (16 September 2003); Marcos Ordóñez, ‘Josep Pere Peyró: El misteri polièdric’, preface to Josep Pere Peyró, Quan els paisatges de Cartier-Bresson (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, 1996), pp. 3–14; ‘Peyró: Una pluja irlandesa’, in Molta comèdia: Cròniques de teatre: 1987–1995 (Barcelona: La Campana, 1996); María José Ragué-Arias, El teatro de fin de milenio en España (De 1975 hasta hoy) (Barcelona: Ariel, 1996), pp. 213–214.

8. La trobada (with Home Perplex by Raimon [Agrave]vila, Berna by Lluïsa Cunillé, and Patates by Francesc Pereira), preface Josep M. Benet i Jornet (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, 1994); Quan els paisatges de Cartier-Bresson, preface Marcos Ordóñez. See Ordónez, ‘Josep Pere Peyró: El misteri polièdric’, preface to Peyró, Quan els paisatges de Cartier-Bresson, pp. 3–14.

9. Paradís oblidat (with El clavicèmbal by Dani Salgado and Excés [escenes dels darrers dies] by Neil Labute), preface Sergi Belbel (Barcelona: Proa/Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, 2002).

10. Mala sang (with El color del gos quan fuig, by Beth Escudé i Gallès and A trenc d'alba, by Ignasi Garcia) (Barcelona: Edicions C, 1997).

11. La dona incompleta (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, 2001).

12. Hurracan, Teatre-Entreacte (Barcelona: Associació d'Actors i Directors Professionals de Catalunya, 1999); Tractat de blanques (Tarragona: Arola Editors, 2003).

13. Plou a Barcelona, Sèrie ‘A Barcelona’ (Barcelona: Re & Ma 12/L'Obrador de la Sala Beckett, 2004).

14. Carlota Subirós, Interview with Bonnie Marranca, ‘Writing for a Catalan Theatre’, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 27:1 (January 2005), 55–60 (p. 59).

15. [Agrave]frica 30 (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, 1997). See Ordóñez, ‘(Més) bones notícies’, Avui (11 May 1998).

16. La dona i el detectiu, Web de Literatura Parnaseo, Ars Theatrica, Monografías de Autores Contemporáneos 9 (Valencia: Universitat de València, 2002) http://parnaseo.uv.es/Ars/Autores/sarrias/autora/merce.htm [accessed 2 April 2007].

17. A segment of my commentary regarding Cunillé appeared in Catalan in an earlier version in my essay ‘El teatre d'enigma de Lluïsa Cunillé’, Catalan Review, 16:1/2 (2002), 141–154.

18. See Carles Batlle, ‘La nova dramatúrgia catalana: de la perplexitat a la diversitat’, Caplletra, 22 (Spring 1997), 49–68 (p. 53). See, also, Sergi Belbel, ‘Lluïsa Cunillé: El teatro de los 90’, preface to Lluïsa Cunillé, Rodeo (Madrid: Centro Nacional de Nuevas Tendencias Escénicas/INEAM/Ministerio de Cultura, 1992), pp. 9–11.

19. Lluïsa Cunillé, Rodeo, preface Sergi Belbel (Madrid: Centro Nacional de Nuevas Tendencias Escénicas/INEAM/Ministerio de Cultura, 1992); L'aniversari (Tarragona: Arola, 2000); Passatge Gutenberg (Lleida: Pagès Editors, 2000).

20. The production of Barcelona, mapa d'ombres at the Beckett also received the ‘Butaca’ Prize for best lighting (Maria Domènech), as well as the following nominations: Best Small-Scale Spectacle, Best Director (Lurdes Barba), Best Actor (Alfred Lucchetti), Best Actress (Mont Plans), Best Scenic Design (Max Glaenzel and Estel Cristià), Best Costume Design (Marian Coromina). See Sharon G. Feldman, ‘Of Appearance and Disappearance: Theatre and Barcelona (Catalunya Invisible, Part II)’, Special Issue on Barcelona and Modernity, Brad Epps (ed.), Catalan Review, 13:1/2 (2004), 161–180, and ‘Sobre la invisibilidad y la visibilidad: Barcelona y el teatro de Lluïsa Cunillé’, Primer Acto: Cuadernos de Investigación Teatral, 314 (July 2006), 14–20.

21. Cunillé, La cita (Madrid: Novalibro.com, 2001). The Meeting (with The Spectator, by David Greig) (London: Methuen, 1999).

22. Sanchis Sinisterra, ‘Una poètica de la sostracció’, preface to Lluïsa Cunillé, Accident (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, 1996), pp. 5–12 (p. 7).

23. Ordóñez, ‘Notas sobre Lluïsa Cunillé’, in A pie de obra: Escritos sobre teatro (Barcelona: Alba, 2003), pp. 125–137 (pp. 125–126).

24. Sanchis Sinisterra, ‘Una poètica de la sostracció’, pp. 6–7.

25. Cunillé, Dotze treballs (Lleida: Pagès Editors, 1998).

26. Pablo Ley, ‘Lluïsa Cunillé muestra en “Dotze treballs” uno de sus textos más escenciales’, El País (11 June 1998), p. 44.

27. Ben Highmore, Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2002), p. 2. On Cunillé's minimalism, see also Xavier Puchades, ‘De la brevedad a la intensidad en el teatro de Lluïsa Cunillé’, Art Teatral, 15 (2001), 93–99.

28. See Marcos Ordóñez, ‘Aprengui a estimar la tònica’, Avui (23 March 1998), p. 43 (partial rpt. in Spanish in Ordóñez, A pie de obra, pp. 129–133).

29. Ordóñez, ‘Notas sobre Lluïsa Cunillé’, p. 127.

30. Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, trans. John Howe (New York: Verso, 1995), p. 79.

31. Cunillé, Libración (with Rodeo) (Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 1996); Accident, preface. José Sanchis Sinisterra (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, 1996); La venda (Tarragona: Arola, 1999), Privado, in Escena, 37 (1997), 28–41; Apocalipsi (Barcelona: Teatre Nacional de Catalunya/Proa, 1998).

32. See Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steve Rendall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

33. Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, p. 93.

34. See Highmore, Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction, p. 27.

35. See Beth Escudé, ‘Mala herba’, in the souvenir program of Apocalipsi (Barcelona: Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, 1998), pp. 11–12 (p. 12).

36. Cunillé, L'afer (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1998).

37. Cunillé, Rodeo, p. 25.

38. Batlle, ‘La nova dramatúrgia’, p. 60.

39. Sara i Eleanora, preface Joan Castells (Alzira: Bromera, 1997); Combat: (Paisatge der a després d'una batalla) preface Josep M. Benet i Jornet (València: Tres i Quatre, 1999); Les veus de Iambu, preface Joan Castells (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1999); Suite, preface Enric Gallén (Barcelona: Proa, 2001); Oasi, preface Sharon G. Feldman (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2003); Temptació (with El plan B, by Isabel Díaz) (Barcelona: Proa/Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, 2004).

40. Batlle's doctoral dissertation on the symbolist theatre of Adrià Gual, completed while he was a student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and published as a monograph, was awarded the Serra d'Or Prize of 2002 for best critical study: Adrià Gual (1891–1902): Per a un teatre simbolista (Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat/Institut del Teatre la Diputació de Barcelona, 2001).

41. See Jürgen Habermas, ‘Toward a Cosmopolitan Europe’, Journal of Democracy, 14:4 (2003), 86–100, and ‘Why Europe needs a Constitution’, New Left Review, 11 (2001), 5–26.

42. Herbert Blau, Take Up the Bodies: Theatre at the Vanishing Point (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987), p. 2.

43. On relative drama, see the following essays by Batlle: ‘El drama relatiu', preface to Carles Batlle, Suite (Barcelona: Proa, 2001), pp. 17–23; ‘Més sobre el “drama relatiu” (I): la restitució de la història’, in Serra d'Or, 489 (September 2000), 54–55; ‘Notes de l'autor’, postscript to Carles Batlle, Les veus de Iambu (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1999), pp. 69–76 (rpt. with slight variations as ‘A manera de manifest: Lluïsa Cunillé i Maeterlinck’, in El Pou de les Lletres, K-11/12-L (Fall 1998–Winter 1999), 46–47); ‘La nouvelle écriture dramatique en Catalogne: De la “poétique de la soustraction” a la littérarisation de l'expérience’, in Joseph Danan and Jean-Pierre Ryngaert (eds), Écritures dramatiques contemporaines (1980–2000): L'avenir d'une crise (Paris: Études Théâtrales, Université de Paris III/Université Catholique de Louvain, 2002), pp. 134–143.

44. On ‘geopathology’, see Una Chaudhuri, Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995).

45. Batlle, ‘La nouvelle écriture dramatique en Catalogne’, p. 141.

46. In addition, Combat was given a rehearsed reading at the Sitges Teatre International Festival in June 1995.

47. Batlle, Programme notes, Combat (Barcelona: Sala Beckett, 1998).

48. Pnina Werbner, ‘Introduction: The Dialectics of Hybridity’, in Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood (eds), Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism (London: Zed Books, 1997), pp. 1–28 (pp. 4–5). Werbner draws upon the distinction between two concepts of linguistic hybridization that Mikhail Bakhtin proposes in The Dialogic Imagination: unconscious (organic) hybridity and intentional (aesthetic) hybridity. She then situates these concepts within a cultural context (The Dialogic Imagination, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981)).

49. Sanchis Sinisterra, ‘El Teatro Fronterizo’, p. 36.

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