The background of the mirror
AUTHOR: Javier Del Barrio
Synopsis
Cristina, a girl of 11 years, is facing his own reflection in the bathroom and fight against the negative thoughts that assail.
Technical data
Original language:
Spanish
Gender:
Children and young
Female characters:
2
Male characters:
None
Premiered, Edited
Space
1
Duration
Microteatro
Time
Contemporary
Year of establishment
2022
Other data
Release date: 2023
Place of premiere: Teatro Valle-Inclán, Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid
Artistic team: Dramatized reading directed by Susana Sanchez starring Álex Viciano and Angela Arellano
Date of Publication: 2023
Editorial: Editions Antigone
Additional information
Published in Size Doesn't Matter 13, co-published by AAT and Ediciones Antígona. ISBN 978-84-96837-49-2
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About the author
Javier Del Barrio
A degree in Stage Direction and Dramaturgy at the RESAD. He collaborated on several performances with the creator Mattis G. of the Source and your company The Nomai, working as an illuminator. In 2018 his work "The son of Bean Nighe" was the winner of XXVII Contest of theatrical texts aimed at a child audience in the town Hall of Pamplona. It has several published texts of long and small format. He was assistant director in "Signed Lejárraga", premiered at the National Drama Center. He has worked as a stage manager in the spaces of Madrid Destination for 2 years. In 2022 was in a Club Benjamin, a project of the New Theatre Crossing, directed by Joseph Sánchis Sinisterra. It has recently been formed as a stage director with Carlos Tuñón. In 2023 premiered "Memories side" written and directed by himself. She has supplemented her training as a playwright with The Young Company, Antonio Rojano, Nieves Rodríguez Rodríguez, Simon Stephens, Luis Sorolla, Rodrigo García and Eusebio Calonge.
Specialty
Playwright, director, lighting technician, stage manager, technical theatre, and writing teacher.
Victor, is a theoretical physicist with high intellectual capacities, but has difficulties to engage in emotional relationships. Is a perfectionist and will blame himself for the mistakes of the past. Suffers from a constant fear of making mistakes and he doesn't cherish his companion lab, Anna. During an experiment in the laboratory, suffers an accident that will allow you to travel back in time to his own past. Will meet up with his old friends, his parents and his old love, Emma. On those trips will try to alter the events of his life, but the results do not end up being what you expected. Victor has a fight with his own timeline and with time itself.
Marco es propietario del "Circo Giovanni", un circo de fieras que tiene dificultades para seguir adelante. Además de empresario, participa en los espectáculos como payaso. Un día después de la función, recibe la visita de Nicolás, ex-domador de tigres y payaso, a quien no ve desde hace tiempo. Nicolás traerá noticias del paradero de Carla, la hija de Marco que huyó años atrás, y una oferta para comprar el circo. Pero la oferta significaría para Marco abandonar los principios y bases del circo de toda la vida.
Un drama familiar sobre el maltrato animal en el circo, la necesidad de cambio en la sociedad actual y cicatrizar las heridas del pasado.
Javi is a teenager who is involved in a bullying situation, and there is debate on how to deal with the bully. A monologue from the privacy of your room.
En pueblo costero de Escocia, durante un tiempo lejano, habita Angus, un niño de 6 años, cuyo imaginario está estimulado por la mitología de su tierra que le cuenta su abuela. Su obsesión por aquellas historias será causa de conflictos con su padre y los demás niños del pueblo. Angus se precipitará hacia un mundo inhóspito, con seres sobrenaturales, que lo llevará a encontrarse por primera vez con su madre, o la mujer que fue su madre. Este suceso hará que Angus realice acciones cuyas consecuencias tendrá que asumir. La obra explora la toma de conciencia en la infancia de la idea de la muerte en su círculo más cercano. En este caso cuando un niño se tiene que enfrentar a un hecho inminente del empieza a tomar conciencia a través de las leyendas del Otromundo.
Texto ganador del XXVII Concurso de textos teatrales dirigidos a público infantil, organizado por la Escuela Navarra de Teatro en colaboración con el Ayuntamiento de Pamplona en el año 2018.
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