Órgia

The José Luis Alonso Hall of the Teatro de la Abadía hosts, from 15 to 18 October, a production by the Seville company La Rara, written and directed by Rocío Hoces and Julia Moyano, who also perform in it. The piece combines three timelines: the present telling the past, the past, and the present composing the future.

Combining different stage languages and working with the Verbatim technique (a literal form of documentary theatre), supported by the experience of Lucía Miranda, director of Cross Border, La Rara presents this theatre piece, which received a special mention from the jury of the Feria del Teatro de Palma del Río in 2023.

The project grew out of a period of artistic and documentary research supported by the Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla, under its Banco de Proyectos programme, which works on mental health from a gender perspective. During that period, the company conducted a series of interviews with the women workers who closed the Miraflores asylum in Seville in the 1980s.

Órgia, winner of the 2024 Premio Lorca for Best Revelation Show from the Academia de las Artes de Andalucía, is an eclectic show that brings together stories of lives seized and battered, of women who can no longer tell them, intimate accounts from those who lived them and want to tell them, and a fiesta of women's voices eager to become body, one body, and to make it leap.

In ancient Greece, the word órgia referred to collective, ceremonial acts in which a spiritual truth was to be revealed. It is from this perspective, from the celebratory and the collective, that the title of this piece is created.

Artistic credits:

Venue: Teatro de la Abadía - José Luis Alonso Hall

Text: Rocío Hoces and Julia Moyano

Direction: Julia Moyano and Rocío Hoces

Cast: Cristina Almazán, Eloisa Cantón, Eva Gallego, Rocío Hoces, Julia Moyano

Sound space: Eloísa Cantón

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