Artistic Statement
"One of the recurring themes that emerges in my works is the appearance of violence when there is a manifest impossibility of resolving the conflict through words and dialogue. Violence scares me. We have been domesticated not to have to deal with it. This apparent virtue of civilization becomes an absolute weakness when violence appears in our lives. We may have erased it from our way of acting, but it is still present in the world. Therefore, in many cases, I understand the play as a nightmare that transports us to experience how we would try to resolve an extreme or terrifying situation for which we are not yet prepared. I see theater as those dreams where, once you wake up, you feel that you know something more, but you're not sure what it is. Perhaps you've learned to survive or to overcome a pain, though you're not quite sure how. It’s unconscious. It enters through emotion."
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Jordi Casanovas
Artistic Statement
"One of the recurring themes that emerges in my works is the appearance of violence when there is a manifest impossibility of resolving the conflict through words and dialogue. Violence scares me. We have been domesticated not to have to deal with it. This apparent virtue of civilization becomes an absolute weakness when violence appears in our lives. We may have erased it from our way of acting, but it is still present in the world. Therefore, in many cases, I understand the play as a nightmare that transports us to experience how we would try to resolve an extreme or terrifying situation for which we are not yet prepared. I see theater as those dreams where, once you wake up, you feel that you know something more, but you're not sure what it is. Perhaps you've learned to survive or to overcome a pain, though you're not quite sure how. It’s unconscious. It enters through emotion."