El Bicho

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Image courtesy of Gran Teatre del Liceu.

In 1929, the futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote The Bedbug (published in Spanish under the title La Chinche), a science fiction story about a Soviet revolutionary who, in 1929, is accidentally frozen along with an insect that parasitizes him. Fifty years later, in 1979, both the revolutionary and the insect come back to life.

Obsessed with this story, Dora García creates a performance with seven performers and the audience in which she imagines a collective author who asks what happens over a period of fifty years, who or how what has happened is told, and who decides which events have transformed the world in that span of time.

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