Rural drama of losers (Catalan)

After that ambitious and successful America (2023) premiered at La Villarroel, Sergi Pompermayer returns to the same stage with a contemporary rural drama starring a loser, one of those inconsistent characters who, if you ask them how many mistakes they've made in their life, they'll tell you they don't know if they've ever been right. He was a drummer in a rock band, loves music like his 18-year-old daughter, Ruby (Maria Morera), and drags around the youthful dream of visiting the Grand Canyon while doing transport and small repairs with his peculiar friend Joan Josep (Guillem Balart), with whom he drinks all the woman. Ángela (Mireia Aixalà), who is the one who supports the family working in a supermarket; Tatiana (Mar Pawlowsky), a Russian prostitute; and Miki (Eduard Buch), the lonely owner of the town bar with a beer ready to seduce Ángela, about one character and another. In an evocative and disastrous stage space (Max Glaenzel), Pompermayer seeks to explore lost dreams and the possibility of redemption when everything seems over. But reality is very harsh, and miracles are few and far between. The author has treated the performance from the outset with an expressive and credible pedagogical/ethnological realism that required, at the very least, a more groundbreaking approach from the director. Pompermayer closes the performance with great ingenuity. by Eduard Buch, or Maria Morera's desire for revolt. on stage.

Pere Arquillué directs 'Grand Canyon,' a show about lost dreams.