Collons!

Documentary and participatory theatre piece created by the company L’autèntica with Argentinian creator Marco Canale, which reflects on male identity through real-life experiences.

This production, directed by Verónica Pallini, brings together the work of the company L’autèntica with that of Marco Canale, a creator specialising in documentary theatre and site-specific projects. The piece grew out of a workshop with non-professional actors, young men who shared their own experiences of masculinity, and those accounts became part of the creative process. On stage, the show addresses desire, violence, vulnerability and the way male identity is constructed.

The production combines theatre, body, music and performance. One of its main features is audience participation: through a screen integrated with artificial intelligence, spectators are invited to complete and expand the stories presented, so that each performance becomes a shared exchange.

Pallini is a director, actress and PhD in Social Anthropology. Her theatre research is divided between immersive pieces aimed at children and documentary theatre on masculinities, the field in which she places No entiendo a los hombres, the project with which she began her collaboration with Canale. The show is presented in the Sala Negra of Teatros del Canal, a Madrid performance venue that mainly programmes theatre, as part of the Festival de Otoño.