Theater from bed? Yes, in Tarragona.

BarcelonaSince he first visited Argentina in 2012, actor and director of the Sala Trono in Tarragona, Joan Negrié, has been looking for a way to bring Catalonia Everything that is by my side, by Fernando Rubio. Now it has finally achieved its place at the Tarragona International Theatre Festival (FITT), which will take place from September 3 to 6. The initial approach of the show is already groundbreaking: the director places seven beds in the public street, in decontextualized spaces, and in each of them an actress waits for a spectator to tell them a childhood story, a dream. "It's a very special, very intimate proposal. The audience can pass by all the beds and live each of the experiences of women from diverse backgrounds and circumstances. The show speaks of memory, of what intimacy means, of vacations, of the vital moments of each one. It's a very poetic performance, everyone can feel identified and it will make the spectator feel" Negrié, who is also the director of FITT.

The beds of Everything that is by my side They will be placed on Tarragona's Rambla Nova, in front of the Bank of Spain, on September 3rd at 7:00 p.m. The production has yet another element that gives it added value: the show's performers are actresses from Camp de Tarragona. "We've combined an Argentine director with actresses from the region, who emerged from the advanced level of the Antoni de Martí i Franquès Institute," explains Negrié. In this edition of the festival, the director has set out to "follow the theme of life" and focus "on the passage of time by programming shows that speak to young people and older people." For example, Mambo Project will premiere its second production, Youth, which contrasts the testimonies of young people with those of older people.

Colombia's 'false positives'

Another of the most outstanding shows in the program is Where donkeys' tails decompose, by the Colombian company Umbral Teatro. Written by Carolina Vivas Ferreira (winner of the Colombian National Playwriting Prize), the production tells the story of a mother searching for her son among the false positives. "They are victims killed by the army. They claim to have killed members of the drug trade, but in reality they are civilians," explains the director of FITT, who adds that he programmed it because "it addresses issues that we hear about in the background because they happen on the other side of the world, but which need to be seen in Europe."

The FITT will take place mainly in Tarragona, but will also take place in other municipalities such as Riudoms, Vila-seca, and La Canonja. The festival will open with Loneliness, by Roberto G. Alonso, a proposal with very young performers that speaks of the bullying and? It premiered last year at the Teatre Nacional de CatalunyaThey will also go through the FITT the company Oligor and Microscopy, with the object theatre show The melancholy of the tourist; the Collective That Doesn't Leave Here, with Hermaphrodites on Horseback or the Rebellion of Desire, and The Mule Company, with Thauma, among others.