Billie

Theatrical and musical show paying tribute to Billie Holiday as a performer, as a person and as a pioneering figure in the struggle for civil rights, with Bea Insa on stage and as director.

Billie is a tribute to Billie Holiday that seeks to bring jazz closer to the theatre and the theatre closer to jazz. The performance alternates songs with accounts of episodes from the singer's life, a career at once legendary and tragic.

Between songs, the actress Bea Insa narrates these episodes and raises a fundamental question: how does one survive in a class-based, sexist and racist society, both today and a hundred years ago? The show thus focuses on Holiday as a performer and as a figure of the civil rights movement.

The script is by Bea Insa and Ángel Mirou, and Bea Insa also takes on the direction and performance. Lidia Facerías is the pianist, Ángel Mirou is in charge of the sound and audiovisual space, and the lighting is by Patxi Pascual and Bea Insa. The photography is by Gorka Etxeandia and Jon Larrinaga, and the video by Gorka Etxeandia.