Author: Marta Barceló
Company: Coma 14 teatro
La Calidesa presents us with six stories about loneliness and friendship. Six situations of silence and deserted landscapes, characters lost in places of unwanted life to which the presence and companionship of another person have shed some light under which they can continue.
These six capsules will open us to everyday realities, in a society in which the everyday already encompasses the entire world: emigration, the aging of the world population, international mobility, the consumer society model, the commodification of being, etc. The initially proposed themes speak of immigrant caregivers whom distance prevents from being able to care for their children, the loneliness of night truck drivers, friendships that last a lifetime, applications for renting company/commodification of friendship, or unaccompanied immigrant minors, among others.
Loneliness is silent and advances slowly, sometimes we don't even notice it, but it goes on conquering spaces and, by the time we become aware of it, the damage is already deep and structural. LA CALIDESA is a call for care, an alert launched to our lives so that we return to conquering shared spaces and shed light on possible loneliness of our own or others', so that we value and strengthen friendship.
The author
Marta Barceló (Mallorca, 1973) holds a degree in Dramatic Art, specializing in gesture theater, from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. Subsequently, she also studied circus at The Circus Space (London). Her career is closely linked to that of her production company, Res de Res and En Blanc (now defunct), where she worked for twenty years as a creator, actress, trapeze artist, co-director and author of gestural theater, circus and text performances. In parallel, since 2005 she has worked continuously as a screenwriter on fiction series produced for Balearic regional television (Vallterra, Treufoc, Pep…).
In 2013 the performance Remor, of which she is co-author, performer and co-director, won the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. She won the Balearic Islands Playwriting Tournament with the text Abans que arribi l'alemany (2016) and the tournaments of the Temporada Alta festival in Girona (2016) and the Transatlántico in Buenos Aires (2017) with the text Tocar mare. She has the Palanca i Roca Award from the Ciutat d'Alzira Awards (2020) for her work Anar a Saturn i tornar. She has written the children's novel (Lúnia, winner of the Guillem Cifre de Colonya award) and short theater pieces. She is currently co-director of the C.IN.E. (Centre d'Investigació Escènica de Sineu). The work Zona Inundable, where, based on experiences and testimonies
