What would you do with an inheritance of 512 sheep?
The Theatre Interpretation Workshop (level 1) of the UAB Theatre Classroom will perform two performances of the play Ovelles on Tuesday 19 May at 4:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m., in the UAB Theatre Hall. The performance is directed by Màrcia Cisteró.
The actors and actresses of the Theatre Interpretation Workshop, directed by Màrcia Cisteró, will perform this crazy comedy on the university stage in which three brothers from Barcelona receive an unexpected inheritance: 512 sheep.
Written by playwrights Carmen Marfà and Yago Alonso, Ovelles is a bittersweet comedy that, with humour and irony, reflects on the precariousness, frustration and uncertainty of a generation marked by economic and labour crises. The authors explain that they wrote the play after experiencing the crisis of 2009, at a vital moment when their lives were supposed to begin to take shape, but in which many young adults found themselves trapped in a situation of constant instability.
A reality that, far from disappearing, is still fully valid today. Through direct, tender language and full of bad language, Ovelles also questions the discourses of self-help and personal improvement that hold the individual responsible for all their circumstances. The piece raises questions about the extent to which it is possible to reinvent oneself in an increasingly precarious social and economic context.
Admission to the Theatre Hall is free and open to the entire university community and the general public, with access limited to the capacity of the room. The box office opens 30 minutes before the start of the performance.