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“The sea will wash away everything. It is not a verse. It’s true.”

Written by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
Adaptation by Pablo Ley
Directed by Aleix Fauró ans Isis Martín
Festival Temporada Alta • Teatre Nacional de Catalunya 2017

Awarded: 2018 Premi Serra d’Or for best show 2017.
2016 Premi Quim Masó for theatre projects.
Nominated for a 2017 Critics’ award for best adaptation.

“If Germany had been comunist, I would have been a photographer. But my adult Germany was National Socialist. And I, that I don’t have an ideology, I was there.”

Synopsis

From his childhood, Prohaska is fascinated by images. He will dedicate his life to them as a filmmaker, photographer, and painter. But Prohaska is a very singular artist, obsessed with disappearance and invisibility, a paradoxical man who does not keep a single image, but nevertheless seems to have seen everything. The attitude of this multidisciplinary artist to his work poses two uncomfortable questions: the first – if one can live without ideology; the second – is it possible to look with impunity?

This show proposes a vertiginous traveling in time and space, which exposes not only the entrails of the ferocious twentieth century, whose cruelty Prohaska persists in portraying but the complete map of human shame.

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