Les mans brutes

A contemporary adaptation of a Jean-Paul Sartre classic on individual responsibility and moral contradictions in wartime, directed by Ivan Padilla, with Dani Ledesma and Ramon Bonvehí on stage.

Les mans brutes is a contemporary adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play, transposed to a country at war. The story follows a man who, amid the mud and a resistance marked by hierarchies, shady alliances and betrayals, clings to a cause he believes in so as not to fall apart. He obeys orders without asking questions, because looking at himself in the mirror is unbearable to him, and he acts so as not to face the void of an existence that, in that absurd world, weighs very little.

The production is staged by the company L'El·lida, which brings together the Manresa-born Ivan Padilla and Dani Ledesma alongside Ramon Bonvehí in the cast. Ivan Padilla writes the dramaturgy and directs the staging, and the production raises questions about individual responsibility, the need to act and the moral dilemmas that arise when war takes over everything.