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The three interpreters of Mercè Rodoreda en el Triangle de París

Mercè Rodoreda's Parisian triangle

The Teatre Gaudí Barcelona is hosting the performances of a play based on the stories Nit i boira and Paràlisi by the Barcelona writer.

A look at the traces of war and exile on people, on the shadows of our most recent past. This is how Teatre Gaudí Barcelona defines the play Mercè Rodoreda en el Triangle de París, adding that it is "the Catalan playwright's most autobiographical and starkly autobiographical work". The production will be on stage from 20 July to 27 August and will be performed by Joan Marmaneu, Òscar Castellví and Maria Clausó, under the direction of Maria Casellas.

Ever Blanchet is the playwright who has adapted two of Rodoreda's short stories, Nit i boira and Paràlisi, to bring them to the public. The idea was born after reading Retrat de Mercè Rodoreda, by Mercè Ibarz, in which she explores the work, the cities in which she lived and the exiles of the Barcelona-born writer. In the first story, two men deported to a concentration camp talk and question whether it is worth continuing to live when you feel that you are only a shadow. But the survival instinct prevails, and a question remains in the air: To what extent can human beings endure horror and continue to live? As for Paràlisi, written in Geneva, it is "manifestly autobiographical, a rarity for Rodoreda, in which she made a catharsis of the price of exile", says Blanchet. "Both stories have in common the stark exposition that is not always so evident in other stories", concludes the playwright.

Mercè Rodoreda en el Triangle de París is a production by Versus Teatre and is intended as a tribute to the writer on the 40th anniversary of her death. For more information and tickets, click on the link.

Publication date: Tuesday, 18 July 2023
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