TeatroSOLO-LONEtheater

TeatroSOLO ® LONEtheater exposes the audience to a primal experience that dates back to the first sparkle of theatricality: the oral tradition. Through performance interventions that take place in five specific sites in a city, each spectator steps into different stories, or theatrical pieces, that remain immersed in those locations. Only the spectator, after buying the ticket and deciding which story they’ll go into, will have the key that will let them access and go through that experience all by themselves. The performances remain hidden for anyone other than the spectator.

In TeatroSOLO ® LONEtheater, the spectator has an active role that allows them to take a stand when it comes to the conflicts carried out in the performances. Each piece talks about different emerging issues in the intervened city, such as several taboos and social, economical, and political problems. Also, the five pieces dialogue with five representation systems where the spectator takes different stands and decisions.

The oral tradition that is the basis of this project doesn’t just take place during the performance. It is also the way in which the spectator transmits the experience they just went through, of which they were the sole witness.

TeatroSOLO ® LONEtheater makes use of the most primal aspect of theater: the physical encounter between people. This situation allows interpreters to immerse themselves in an introspective experience. Doing eight 30-minute performances a day pushes them to their physical limit, depriving them of all the “actor” archetypes, thus forcing them to search for the human, where the text stops being a text and turns into a sort of mantra due to repetition.

This site-specific intervention was created in a global way, so it changes cities, performers, languages, and conflicts.