Espectacle familiar Bandàstic

Do you remember your first day at school, with that mix of excitement and nerves?

Bandàstic starts from a familiar situation: its eccentric characters arrive for the first time at a performance with the Banda Municipal de Barcelona (BMB) and feel the mix of excitement and nerves of a first day at school. Four clowns mingle with the band's instruments and dance to the rhythm of zarzuelas, festive marches and film melodies, between comic scenes. It is a collective creation by the performers and the directing team.

The BMB, one of the oldest active musical institutions in the State, plays a repertoire of works by Charles Ives, Rafael Martínez Valls, Nino Rota, Bert Appermont, Xostakóvitx, Marcel Peeters, Henrie Filmore, Philip Sparke, Percy Grainger and José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana. The show combines music, humour and dance, and invites the audience to take part as a family. It is staged in the Sala 1 Pau Casals, in Barcelona.

The staging involves Rafa Agulló on musical direction, Guillem Albà on stage direction and Pepe Reche on educational direction. The clowns are Marta Asamar Garcia, Cèlia Castellano Algaba, Roger Julià Gil and Lisa Skjøth Madsen, with Carla Tovias on stage movement and assistant direction. Lighting design is by Anna Boix Alvarez, the set design is by Cia. Les Pinyes, the bull is the work of L'Estaquirot Teatre and Alfred Casas, and the costumes are by Paulette San Martin. The show includes acknowledgements to El Tricicle.