Rodrigo García - La Carnicería Teatro - UITGESTELD!

PLEASE NOTE! At the request of the director Rodrigo Garcia and his company La Carnicería Teatro, this performance has been postponed until next season. For various reasons, two actors are not able to take part in the planned spring tour. The production will instead be shown in autumn 2013. Originally from Argentina, the dramatist and author Rodrigo García has lived and worked in Madrid, where he founded his company Teatro La Carnicería, since 1986. His plays contain a deep melancholy, even a malaise, concerning the fate of mankind. His lyrics are inspired by everyday reality, the street where he grew up in a working-class district of Buenos Aires. He tackles everything, albeit with humour and a touch of irony: loneliness, hypocrisy and human cruelty. In his reflections in 'Gólgota Picnic', which are a cross between passionate argument and raw indictment, he conjures up a world that surrenders itself to blind consumption and where art is only an ornament. He questions Christian iconography, from Goya to Rubens, and orchestrates a picnic perceived as a last supper in the contemporary era. The second part of the show comes as a shock: there are no provocative images but stillness, modesty and poetry. The Italian pianist Marino Fromenti brings us a truly classical concert: alone on stage, he plays the whole of Haydn's masterpiece 'The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross'.