From today to 26 October the Teatro de La Abadía (calle de Fernández de los Ríos, 42), welcomes the new of the Valencian company Pont Flotant, Adolescencia infinita (Infinite Adolescence).
In the play, actors wonder why it is so difficult to understand teenagers when we have all passed through that vital stage, while looking nostalgically at a time full of lights and shadows.
The staging has the vibrating and hormonal power of puberty, without missing humor and live music. Teenage characters are represented by real-sized human figures, manipulated like puppets, with voices of real teenage people.
In Adolescencia infinita, Joan Collado, Jesús Muñoz and Pau Pons focus their gaze on a “volatile, strange and annoying being that intimidates us, tests us with its mere presence and from which it is difficult to decipher its codes”, they explain. Now when they are turning fifty and their sons and daughters enter puberty, they need to reflect on that stage, but also, to some extent, revive it. “Were we teenagers so different from the youth of our day?”
In this show, the audience will not find the story of a teenager or a group of teenagers, but will revisit their own adolescence and recognize behaviors and situations that they have today by relating to those who are now at that stage. But it is also a montage that appeals to younger people, asks them questions, narrates them and pays homage to them. “Understand and respect, after all, their behaviors, decisions, aesthetics and ways of doing and assuming the generational distance that separates them,” point out the creators of the show.
During the development of the play, three adults try to give answers to questions that are asked about adolescence, the general and their own. These three adults, played by Joana Alfonso, Yolanda García, Jesús Muñoz and Javi Vega, try to represent scenes from the daily life of teenagers with family, friends, in high schools… In this sense, they start from the prejudice of an adult view on their idea of adolescence. The teenage characters will be represented by real-size human figures manipulated as puppets, mysterious puppets with voices of real teenagers. A montage where there is no lack of humor, sensibility, music, and with a careful plasticity and final invoice. Tickets can be purchased at this link.