Rodrigo García - La Carnicería Teatro

Since 1986, the Argentine theatre-maker and author Rodrigo García has been living and working in Madrid, where he founded his company La Carnicería Teatro. His theatre reveals a deep melancholy, perhaps even a malaise concerning the fate of humankind. His plays are inspired by the everyday reality of the streets where he grew up in the working class areas of Buenos Aires. He tackles everything - loneliness, hypocrisy and human cruelty - but tempers them with humour and gentle irony. In 'Gólgota Picnic' his observations, which range from passionate argument to raw insinuation, evoke a world that surrenders itself to blind consumption and where art is merely an ornament. He questions Christian iconography, from Goya to Rubens, and orchestrates a picnic conceived as a last supper for contemporary times. The second part of the performance comes as a shock: there are no provocative images here, only stillness, modesty and poetry. The Italian pianist Marino Fromenti will present us with a truly classic concert: alone on stage, he will play the full score of Joseph Haydn's masterpiece 'The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross'.