Until next February 2, Teatro de La Abadía (calle Fernandez de los Ríos, 42) presents Travy, by Bitò Productions, a show that speaks of the theater and, in particular, of a theatrical family, with strong roots in Catalonia: the Pla-Solina.
Travy arrives in Madrid for the first time after a successful tour of the Catalan stage circuit to bring two generations of the same family on stage, who confront two forms of theatre: on one side, the clown, folk and popular theatre, and on the other hand post-dramatic and metatheatrical forms.
Two old clowns with little grace. Two children lost in themselves, the transgression of art and success. A family of jugglers who understand each other more by putting on masks than by looking into each other’s eyes. Engaged in creating a show. The last show? At a point where the company’s veterans no longer have ideas for performances and where the daughter rebels against all inherited artistic forms, the young son returns home to find his artistic discourse and himself back in the origins.
The director, screenwriter and performer Oriol Pla states that “there was a desire to make a tribute and dedicate a loving song to a family that has a philosophy of life and also artistic where everything is mixed. There was also a desire to stage that generation of the Catalan counterculture that did so much at an artistic, social and cultural level.” Tickets for the play Travy can be purchased at this link.
