Batecs

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Batecs

What do we do with the idea of, and hope and desire for this being?

Three protagonists − Carla, Joana and Angie − encounter death while expecting life and have to deal with perinatal bereavement in different phases of pregnancy.

Three stories that, from different moments in life, tread paths marked by solitude, ethics and silence.

Three women facing the desire to be a mother or the pressure to do so, the decision to have an abortion, infertility, the commodification of assisted reproduction, recurrent miscarriages, conflict within couples and families, guilt, the coldness of medical language, the infantilisation and pathologisation of pregnant women and, in general, all forms of violence that pierce the hearts and bodies of women during their fertile years.

Perinatal bereavement

It had been a day since he died and her belly was a coffin.

In the operating theatre, no comfort.

“It’s gone neat and clean!”

She is silent and feels longings: she had never been dirty.

L'Eco de Sitges (2024)
Cèlia Sanchez-Mústich (Barcelona, 1954)

Original idea

Nídia Tusal

 

Authorship and dramaturgy
Nídia Tusal, Alba Florejachs, Ariana Ruglio and Lara Díez Quintanilla


Direction
Lara Díez Quintanilla
 

With
Belén Barenys, Alba Florejachs, Cristina Plazas, Bàrbara Roig, Sergi Vallès

Set design
Laura Clos "Closca"

Costumes
Nídia Tusal

Lighting
Ganecha Gil

Musical composition
Edna Sey

Sound space design

Sara Vidal Cabré

Movement
Ana Pérez Gracía

 

Characterisation
Imma Capell

 

Assistant director
Ramon Bonvehí

 

Set design assistant and artistic collaboration

Eduard Casademont 

 

Intimacy coordinator

Cristina Castellà Reverter

 

Photograph

Clàudia Serrahima Urgell

Set Construction

Punt de Fuga, logística tècnica d’espectacles

 

Costume making

Sra. Díaz vestuari escènic

 

Company technical and management teams

 

Technical Director

Ángel Puertas

 

Production Manager

Sergi Vallès

 

Executive Producer

Maria G. Rovelló

 

Production Assistant

Sara Farré

 

Outreach and Distribution

Marta Riera Pi

 

Production

Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Kabuts

Thanks

A totes les dones que van compartir el seu temps de dol i van acompanyar els nostres. A les dones que van compartir els seus testimonis: Glòria, Mir, Patrícia, Edna, Yasmina, Estela, Laura, Nora, Ana, Esther, Aurora, María José, María, Neus, Míriam, Eli, Toñi, Carme, Diana, Belén, Lara, Carmela, Encarna… 

A totes les psicòlogues perinatals i professionals sanitàries que donen espai al dolor i ens ajuden travessar-lo: Blanca, Martí, Mar, Laia, Elisabet, Àngels, Maria i Elisenda.

A totes les dones que ens han acompanyat en la gestació de l’obra com la Tornero, la Nadal i la Flores.

Al CAN de Farrera per inspirar-nos i llançar-nos a l’aventura.

A la Cristina per creure que això podria estar dalt d’aquest escenari. 

A Cassandra Projectes Artístics pels punts de llum.

A totes les que ens precedeixen que ens han obert camí: la Brió i la Cedó.

A totes les persones que sí que anomenen els cors que van deixar de bategar.

A la Rita, l’Aretha, l’Abril, el Bruno, la Gina, la Júlia, el Bernat, el Sergi i l’Àlex per sostenir les autores. 

A totes les criatures que van marxar massa d’hora, per tot el que ens han ensenyat. En especial a la Gala, el Pol, l’Emma i la Frida.

TNC technical and management teams