El Cadell

El Cadell

Una casa pairal. Ell hereta. Elles sostenen.

Una masia travessada per diverses generacions on tot el pes recau sobre l’hereu: el Cadell. En aquest món tancat i d’aparença immutable, la continuïtat del patrimoni i del nom sembla dependre d’una sola figura. Però, rere aquest ordre aparent, són elles les autèntiques protagonistes i les qui sostenen el dia a dia i la memòria d’aquest univers familiar.

Amb El Cadell, Josep Maria Miró —Premi Nacional de Literatura Dramàtica i una de les veus més internacionals del teatre català contemporani— torna al TNC després d’èxits com Fum o Temps salvatge. En aquesta nova peça, Miró aprofundeix en les dinàmiques de poder, herència i identitat, en una combinació d’arrelament local i projecció universal.

El Cadell takes place in a manor house that becomes a true protagonist, governing its inhabitants. The play could be titled L'hereu (The Heir), this person marked from birth by strict codes and rules, more overt or subtle, designed to ensure what is expected of him and prevent any desertion or dissent. In this small world, where everything seems to revolve around the male figure, his continuity, and the accumulated material wealth, it is the women ‒ mothers, sisters, aunts ‒ who are the true pillars of the house.

Perhaps I only became aware of it later, but difference and the construction of masculinity (including its fragilities and dissents) are two very powerful backbones of a part of my theatre. Still situated in the rural world, where I come from and which is also the geography of my latest plays (El Monstre, La Majordoma or El cos més bonic que s'haurà trobat mai en aquest lloc), I now add the question of legacy. Inheritance, in its ambivalence of perpetuation or destruction, is an issue that has always fascinated me and that some of the playwrights I most admire and love, from Santiago Rusiñol to Benet i Jornet, have addressed from their own perspectives.

Josep Maria Miró

Written and directed by

Josep Maria Miró

With

Mercè Aránega, Lurdes Barba, Màrcia Cisteró, Roberto G. Alonso, Àurea Márquez, Alba Pujol, Rosa Renom, Marc Tarrida

Set design

Alejandro Andújar

 

Costume design

Albert Pascual

 

Lighting design

Toni Ubach

Music composition

Xavier Albertí

 

Assistant director

Aina Minguell

 

FEFCA Intern from the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture

Leonardo Sosa Constantini

 

Production

Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

 

TNC Technical and Management teams