Theatre as an art seems destined to be a museum piece or old relic. The signs are clear. The great bureaucratic and economic complexity which exists today between the simple formulation of a creative idea and its practical realisation has lead to the protective intervention of the States with their new neo-liberal model of cultural nationalisation.

Our old theatrical profession is torn between assessors, advisory boards and ministerial departments. Flea infested ruins have been substituted by costly opulent buildings, but along the way something as essential as obscenity and transgression has been lost. Today, any cultural representation is in danger of receiving the National Theatre Award and this decadent situation is the responsibility of the professionals who, in their stupid vanity, have aspired to being something more respectable than simple buffoons.

For this reason "Don Josep" an old usher from the National Theatre, already dilapidated and out of action, tries to resuscitate the art of the theatre with a group of homeless people who represent "Rigoletto", the character who Don Josep considers to be the symbol of theatre. They are a profession of villains, buffoons, minstrels and clowns, the complete opposite of the histrionic, intellectual realist actors, who have reduced the profession to the point of converting it into an art for the institutions.

Albert Boadella

CAST AND PRODUCTION LIST

Actors

Begoña Alberdi Barcelona 1964	Joan Gallemí Argentona 1961	Ramon Fontserè Torelló 1956
Pilar Sáenz Mataró 1969	Jesús Agelet Balaguer (Lleida) 1954	Xevi Vilà Santa Maria d'Oló 1958
Josep M. Fontserè Torelló 1963	Minnie Marx Glasgow 1948	Ramon Llimós Les Lloses 1963