SLASH o les Apories de l’Avantguarda (El desenvolupament d’un Show)

THE SHOW

Yesyesyes! It’s time to return! Come along! Watch! You’ve never seen anything like it for sure!
It’s fine, individually perhaps, that might be. There are gags that function so well that they can be shown time and again. People adore our attractions. And let’s be honest: metaphysical rootlessness is a good theme for Arthaus cinema, we already know that. Often it is the Show that thinks about us. However, this time we guarantee that we are paying attention to all the rules, really all of them. Nobody should appear with a red biro as the curtain falls, and even less so the heirs of Brecht. The Show is still the Show. So, let’s thread that needle, wham bam and let’s go!

THE CREATORS

Marlene Kolatschny was born in Berlin in 1992. She studied cultural sciences and German literature at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as History of Art at Goldsmiths College in London. While studying, she worked as director’s assistant at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and at the Ballhaus Ost. As an author, playwright and director she has undertaken a series of own projects, in the P14 youth theatre group of the Volksbühne, at the Meyerhold theatre in Moscow and with the performance collective Leien des Alltags, within the framework of the Ruhrtriennale 2016.

Julius F. Brauer was born in Berlin in 1994. His training as a tap dancer began while still at school. In parallel, he developed as an actor at the P14, where from 2015 onwards he also took on the roles of directing and choreography. In 2016 he went on to the big stage of the Volksbühne for the first time in Judith by Frank Castorf. He has worked in cinema and television. Since September 2016 he has been studying acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig.

P14 AND ELS MALNASCUTS

ELS MALNASCUTS is a model for a youth theatre laboratory inspired by its Berlin-born cousin, the P14 group of the Volksbühne. Since one of its creators, Max Grosse, resides in Berlin and acts as liaison with this great theatre, and thanks to the support of the Goethe Institut-Barcelona, the Sala Beckett and the Institut Ramon Llull, since 2014 a play by ELS MALNASCUTS has travelled each year to the Volksbühne in Berlin and, in the same way, a P14 play has visited the Sala Beckett. Besides the showing of the plays, this exchange also includes workshops by members of the two laboratories, curated by their coordinators and directed by local artists from each city.

Following Der Wohnwagen and Lena & Leonce, SLASH is the third P14 play to be hosted by ELS MALNASCUTS at the Sala Beckett.

Within the GREC 2017 Festival of Barcelona.

With the support of Goethe Institut-Barcelona