Adventure!

written and directed by: Alfredo Sanzol
translated by: Sergi Belbel

An extremely funny while at the same time extremely sad daring comedy on the state of the crisis

Synopsis

In the second collaboration between the playwriter Alfredo Sanzol and T de Teatre both left their comfort zones, sketches and short stories, in order to face together the challenge of creating a complete story from start to end with an introduction a main plot and an ending.

The play premiered in 2012 four years after the start of the crisis of 2008, an important date to remember since the piece revolves around it. Not only the economical crisis but also the moral one, the loss of ethical referents both ideological and political and maybe even the midlife crisis.

Six business partners, four men and two women, run an economically mediocre company when they accept to sell it to a Chinese businessperson. This hilarious comedy with touches of drama puts on stage the collective conflict lived by its protagonists, their fears, anxieties and miseries without an apparent drama, navigating amidst a comedy full of wit and a suprising plot twist at the end. Our protagonists will see the possibility of making a bigger win on the sale than initially expected putting in evidence a lack of morals the spectators will be surprised by.

Indeed the audience leaves the room with a smile on their face but also asking themselves where the fiction they have just seen on stage ends and the reality they are met back with in the streets starts. The laughter caused by the always witty and hilarious dialogues by Sanzol hide, in Aventura! (Adventure!), a bitter and uncomfortable reality of the morally unjustifiable behaviors provoked by the unknown, or even better said a fear of the future, one of the main themes of this piece.

Translated to Catalan by Sergi Belbel the show has a spectacular scenography by Alejandro Andújar and stage lighting design by Carlos Lucena. The music, bringing us back to the happy sixties was created by Fernando Velázquez. Mamen Duch, Marta Pérez, Carme Pla, Albert Ribalta, Jordi Rico and Àgata Roca are the six actresses and actors.

B as in Biography

The show premiered in November 2012 at the Teatre Municipal in Girona as one of the many plays in the festival Temporada Alta. Aventura! Was later on Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, Teatros del Canal in Madrid and many others in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. In 2014 the theater company went on the piece’s last tour which brought them, among others, to the stages of the Teatro Circo in Murcia, the Teatro Principal in Zaragoza and the Teatro Central in Sevilla.

N as in Numbers

87 performances and was seen by a total of 26.000 people.

Credits

Cast: Mamen Duch, Marta Pérez, Carme Pla, Albert Ribalta, Jordi Rico and Àgata Roca

Cast stand-in: Maria Lanau, Jordi Oriol and Carlos Zabala

Scenography and wardrobe: Alejandro Andújar
Original music: Fernando Velázquez
Lighting: Carlos Lucena
Sound: Roc Mateu

Executive producer: Daniel López-Orós
Production manager: Carmen Álvarez
Technical manager: Carles Borras

Scenography and wardrobe assistant: Adriana Parra
Sound assistant: Roger Ábalos
Stage props: Jordi Fuster
Assistant director: Carolina Morro (*)
Manufacturing of scenography: Tallers Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat

(*) Internship students of Col·legi del Teatre de Barcelona

Photography: David Ruano
Graphic design: Enric Jardí
Press: Sandra Costa
Web: Runroom
Correcció textos: La Correccional

We appreciate the collaboration of Teatre Lliure, Teatre La Sala and Rubí City Council.

Produced by T de Teatre with the collaboration of Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat and ICEC.

The show was premiered at Teatre Poliorama on November 16th 2012.