Le congrès ne marche pas

Written by Joan Yago Directed by: Israel Solá

AGOTADAS

2 OCT – 20 OCT 2024 Tuesday to Sunday at 20:00 | Duration approx. 1h and 30 min.

Meeting with the artistic team: 10 OCT Matinee: Tuesday 15 OCT at 12:00 Accessible performances: 17 and 18 OCT

Valle-Inclán Theatre | Sala Grande

Show mostly in French with Spanish supertitles.

TEAM

Text

Joan Yago

Directing

Israel Solá

Cast

Roser Batalla, Joan Esteve, Xavier Francés, Aitor Galisteo-Rocher, Esther López, Tamara Ndong, Marc Rius, Carles Roig and Júlia Truyol

Narrator

Pau Masaló

French narrator

Corentine Sauvetre

Stage space

Bibiana Puigdefàbregas

Lighting

Rodrigo Ortega Portillo

Wardrobe

Albert Pascual

Sound designer

Guillem Rodríguez and David Solans

Characterisation

Anna Madaula

Choreography and movement

Vero Cendoya

Translation and advice on French and English phonetics

Julia Calzada

Translation and advice on Russian phonetics

Gerard Adrover and Yulia Karaganova

Assistant director

Pau Masaló

Assistant stage designer

Alba Paituví

Wardrobe assistant

Elisabet Rovira Ribas

Choir advisor

Laia Santanach

Production Manager

Roser Soler

Technical Manager

Jordi Llunell

Intern students

Andrés Galián (Xarxa de Productores) and Leonardo Vicente (Institut del Teatre)

Set construction

Carles Piera

Costume making

Gustavo Adolfo Tarí

Construction of proscenium lights

Pere Sànchez

Construction of the dolls

Eudald Ferré

Prostheses

David Chapanoff

Show photography

Sílvia Poch and Sergi Panizo

Recording and teaser

Raquel Barrera

Producer

Centro Dramático Nacional, La Calòrica and Teatre Lliure

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Cristina Oliver, Xisca Latorre and Demid Goncharov

About the show

The Austrian foreign minister Klemens von Metternich knows that revolutions must be stopped before they begin. To this end, he has invited the leaders of Russia, England and Prussia to spend a few days in Vienna. He has no idea that the news of the conference will attract the curiosity of all the world’s governments, and that what should be a simple meeting will turn into a massive party that will last more than nine months. It’s not easy to separate territorial negotiations from amorous conflicts, or ideological debates from simple egotistical struggles… It’s hard to know when we’re celebrating and when we’re working. Meanwhile, the bottles of champagne start to run dry, the trays of food stop flowing and the return of an old enemy makes us think, for a moment, that things could be different. The Belgian delegate Charles-Joseph de Ligne writes in a letter: “The congress isn’t making progress, it’s dancing”.

Note from the company

Napoleon’s defeat and the failed end of the revolutionary period serve to demonstrate that an absolute monarchy is the natural order of things: it is the only possible system. In the autumn of 1814 in Vienna, the four great powers of the Old Regime held the first international summit in history with the goal of perpetuating their power and ensuring a decisive response in case the people revolt again. Meanwhile, thousands of kilometres from there, a volcano has just erupted. Le congrès ne marche pas is a piece about the Vienna Congress of 1814, the end of the Old Regime and our capitalist society that celebrates itself while on the brink of collapse. A grandiose, frivolous and rabidly political comedy.

La Calòrica

TEAM

Text

Joan Yago

Directing

Israel Solá

Cast

Roser Batalla, Joan Esteve, Xavier Francés, Aitor Galisteo-Rocher, Esther López, Tamara Ndong, Marc Rius, Carles Roig and Júlia Truyol

Narrator

Pau Masaló

French narrator

Corentine Sauvetre

Stage space

Bibiana Puigdefàbregas

Lighting

Rodrigo Ortega Portillo

Wardrobe

Albert Pascual

Sound designer

Guillem Rodríguez and David Solans

Characterisation

Anna Madaula

Choreography and movement

Vero Cendoya

Translation and advice on French and English phonetics

Julia Calzada

Translation and advice on Russian phonetics

Gerard Adrover and Yulia Karaganova

Assistant director

Pau Masaló

Assistant stage designer

Alba Paituví

Wardrobe assistant

Elisabet Rovira Ribas

Choir advisor

Laia Santanach

Production Manager

Roser Soler

Technical Manager

Jordi Llunell

Intern students

Andrés Galián (Xarxa de Productores) and Leonardo Vicente (Institut del Teatre)

Set construction

Carles Piera

Costume making

Gustavo Adolfo Tarí

Construction of proscenium lights

Pere Sànchez

Construction of the dolls

Eudald Ferré

Prostheses

David Chapanoff

Show photography

Sílvia Poch and Sergi Panizo

Recording and teaser

Raquel Barrera

Producer

Centro Dramático Nacional, La Calòrica and Teatre Lliure

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Cristina Oliver, Xisca Latorre and Demid Goncharov

Biography

Joan Yago

(Barcelona, 1987) holds a Degree in Directing and Playwriting from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. He has written and premiered plays such as Le congrès ne marche pas, De què parlem mentre no parlem de tota aquesta merda (Butaca award for best script 2021), Las Aves, Fairfly (Max award for Best New Playwright 2018, Butaca award for best script 2017), Sis Personatges –Homenatge a Tomàs Giner (La Crítica award 2018), You say tomato (Crítica Serra d’Or award for best theatrical script 2016), Un lloc comú Ciutat d’Alzira award 2014), Bluf (Quim Masó award 2014), Sobre el fenómeno de los trabajos de mierda, Aneboda–The Show, La Nau dels Bojos, L’Editto Bulgaro, Martingala, No soy Dean Moriarty and Feísima enfermedad y muy triste muerte de la reina Isabel I.

He is a founding member of the independent theatre company La Calòrica and a professor of dramatic writing at the Eòlia ESAD School of Dramatic Art and the Sala Beckett Playwriting Workshop. He is the creator and scriptwriter of the series Mai neva a Ciutat for IB3 Televisió.

Israel Solà

(Vallirana 1982) He holds a Degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona and a Degree in Stage Direction and Dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre. As a founder of the La Calòrica theatre company, he has created and directed the majority of its shows, including: Le congrès ne marche pas (Teatre Lliure, 2023), De què parlem mentre no parlem de tota aquesta merda (TNC, 2021), Els ocells (Temporada alta 2018, Sala Beckett 2019), Fairfly (Tantarana, 2017/Max Award for best new show, Critic’s Award for the best small-format show and Butaca Award for the best small-format show).

As director, he has ventured into the world of opera, such as the newly created Nala by A. Gallen (Teatro del Liceu, 2023) and La voz sauria by M. Vila (Principal de Palma, 2021), and the classic La voix humaine by F. Poulenc (Principal de Palma, 2021). As a playwright, he has written and directed Australia Sala Flyhard (TB award for most immersive performance, 2022). He has also co-written and co-directed L’èxit de la Temporada del Terrat (Coliseum, 2021). And has made various adaptations for the company Parking Shakespeare Titus Andrònic (Teatre Grec, 2019) and Molt soroll y per no res (Parc de l’estació del Nord, 2014).

Recently, he has worked in the world of playwriting, focusing on dance shows with M. Morau in Overture (Staatsoper Berlin, 2024) and Nachtträume (Opernhaus Zürich, 2022), and with the inclusive dance company Vero Cendoya on the shows Kebo (Mercat de les Flors, 2024) and Bogümer (Mercat de les Flors, 2021).

Finally, in the audiovisual world, he directed the episode Snegovik in the series of stand-alone episodes Incidents at El Terrat (2022), and he created the short piece La Ventana by La Calòrica for the Centro Dramático Nacional (2020)