May at La Perla 29

Conversation with Txell Feixas, Clara Segura, and Cristina Genebat

Last Monday, a conversation took place at La Biblioteca between journalist Txell Feixas, Cristina Genebat, who has translated Tots Ocells into Catalan, and actress Clara Segura, who plays Norah in this production. Together, they engaged in a dialogue about how through art we can approach a conflict from different perspectives. How do we approach it with a text like Tots Ocells?

"Mouawad compels you to look at places you don't want to look, and you end up empathizing with what you wouldn't empathize with initially. The impact is strong. There are texts that change you. You're not the same person after reading Tots Ocells”

Txell Feixas

How can we extract the universal from this particular story? What artistic process is followed for the construction of these characters, and how are actors affected by this transformative text?

"When you take a bird's-eye view of the work, you see there's a very clear objective: if we manage to make the actors and spectators beat with the same pulse, we will have succeeded in bringing ourselves closer to each other, even if it's just for a moment, like a catharsis we seek."

Clara Segura

The play portrays different generations and their relationship not only with each other but also with the conflict: the generation that experienced it firsthand, the children who confront it in the silence of their parents, and the grandchildren who desperately seek to break this silence, searching for answers to understand it better. To which generation are the scars of past wars inherited?

"Wajdi Mouawad insists on this aspect of the youth, this reluctance to be protagonists of a conflict they do not recognize as their own."

Cristina Genebat

Rehearsals for Tots Ocells continue

We continue creating, experimenting, and investigating. We search for the sounds and atmospheres that accompany the scene, refining interpretations, finding the precise tone of each word and gesture, discovering how the text traverses the bodies, playing with lighting, objects, pauses, and gazes.

Tots Ocells Book Club Meeting

On Thursday, the monthly meeting of the book club organized by #AsSocPerla took place, where various impressions and opinions about the reading of Wajdi Mouawad's Tots Ocells were shared with Oriol Broggi. Participants had the opportunity to discuss the challenges of bringing the written text and its intensity to the stage. Conversations revolved around the difficulties involved in translating the text into Catalan, carried out by Cristina Genebart, as well as the proposal to include the play of languages present in Tots Ocells. With the personal voices of all the book club members, a preliminary reception of Tots Ocells was created through words, still without faces. Now, the final and best part remains: the performance.