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NOBODY SLEEPS

A performative exploration around Memory, Forgetfulness and Genocide

The project has received a Research, Creation, and Thought Award from the Theatre Institute of Barcelona 2023

NO DUERME NADIE is a multi-disciplinary experimental performance blending physical theater, live music, and visual arts.

Departing from the themes of historical memory and socio-political forgetting in Spain, the performance problematizes the “Pact of Forgetting” of 1977. This pact, a political decision by both left and right-wing parties in Spain, was aimed at moving beyond the Spanish Civil War and the repression and crimes of Francoism, focusing on a democratic future under the motto “FORGIVE AND FORGET.” However, it is estimated that in Spain, there are still more than 4,000 mass graves containing the remains of over 114,226 individuals who were murdered, tortured, executed, and forcibly disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship.

 

How long does it take for these corpses to become romantic?

How long does it take for these bones to become mere objects, losing their identities?

How long does it take for them to become “just history”?

 

NO DUERME NADIE immerses the audience into a highly symbolic, distorted, ironic, and grotesque historical nightmare born by collective amnesia; a dis-remembering that perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence, anger, suffering, war, and victimhood.

Author-director JAVIER CÁRCEL HIDALGO – SAAVEDRA (SPA)
Co-author DONGBIN LEE (KOR)
Video artist, scenographer and costume designer ANITA KREMM (EST)
Scenography assistant KAROLINE LOHE (EST)
Lighting designer RENE TOPOLEV (EST)
Sound designer JÜRGEN REISMAA (EST)
Song composition and arrangements RAQUEL MOLANO AYLAGAS (SPA) and JAVIER CÁRCEL HIDALGO-SAAVEDRA (SPA)
Performers DONGBIN LEE (KOR), EDGAR VUNŠ (EST), ERKO SILD (EST), EVELYN KANEPI (EST), JAVIER CÁRCEL HIDALGO-SAAVEDRA (SPA), KARL BIRNBAUM (EST), and REBECCA GREEN (USA)

Co-production by CPPM Manifestal, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Von Krahl Theatre, and NO(W)HERE Performing Arts Laboratory

Supported by Estonian Culture Endowment, Spanish Embassy in Tallinn, Eesti Noorsooteater and, Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. 

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