Within the GREC 2016 Festival de Barcelona
Roger Bernat recovers diverse materials (images, manifestos, accounts and historical stagings) to produce shows that, far from consecrating documents, show what these documents represent and what they can do now.
This workshop will be a practice in staging in which, instead of using dramatic texts as a basis, we will seek strategies to incorporate into scenes heterodox materials that talk about what culture one-sidedly omits.
He began his training in the field of architecture, and from there took an interest in theatre. He studies stage direction and dramaturgy at the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona) and is awarded with the graduation prize of 1996. In 2008 he started to create shows where the audience occupies the stage and becomes a protagonist: “viewers cross through a device that invites them to obey or to conspire and, in any case, to pay with their own body and become involved”.
Some of these plays are Public Dominion (2008), Pura coincidència(2009), La consagración de la primavera (2010), Please Continue: Hamlet (2011), Pendiente de voto (2012), Desplazamiento del Palacio de La Moneda (2014), Numax-Fagor-plus (2014) and We need to talk (2015).
In 2009, together with Ignasi Duarte, he published the bookQuerido Público. El espectador ante la participación: jugadores, usuarios, prosumers y fans.