1978






Premiere the 27th september 1978 at Teatre Municipal de Perpinyà.
Shown until the 8th may 1981.

 

 

 

Those of us in theatre always end up discovering a more imaginative reality which by far exceeds any fable we could have invented, however delirious it may have seemed.

It could be that M-7 Catalonia doesn't completely belong to the world of fiction, as present conditions show favourable signs of reality leading to the same situation.

  • Science is the new 'totem' of today.
  • The elderly, who don't fit into these new ways of life, pose an irritating nuisance.
  • We have turned into the 'porters' of the Mediterranean destined to protect and entertain the summer residences of barbarians, installed around a sea which seems more and more like a public sanatorium.
  • They dazzle us and give us even more complexes with their progress, technology, science, philosophers, economists, politicians.
  • We, on the other hand, are branded with the label of being exotic, folksy and our 'peculiar customs' become less and less peculiar and more and more like souvenirs.

Therefore, Dr. Noguera Grau (XI 7781 B) and Dr. Plana River (BL 5432) already have a good deal of the elements needed to bring their investigation to an end and display their theories in the conference-protest on sector 7 of the Mediterranean, which, with the exception of 4 elders, is nearly extinct.
The perfect, programmed and prophylactic society needs our things (those which had belonged to us) so that they can 'play' in their 'areas of social entertainment' reproducing those very impractical and irrational ways of life.

There's no need to worry, they haven't lost their heads. This is simply a new therapy for social equilibrium. Some centuries earlier Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, set off the experience by constructing a mini-village for herself which began in the gardens of Verseilles, her aim being to play at 'peasants' with her courtesans. According to Dr. Plana River's theory this could be a 'naturist psychiatric self-treatment' this time, however, with the difference that the experiment doesn't wish to be so class conscious, clearly directed at all citizens without discrimination, as specified in the Wallace Müller report and of course with the strict condition that the practice would only be limited to the sectors of 'Recreation and Social Entertainment'.

Albert Boadella

 

 

CAST AND PRODUCTION LIST


 

Actors

 

 

Anna Barderi
Doctor Noguera Grau
(XI 7781 B)
Carme Periano
Doctor Plana River
(BL 5432)
Pitus Fernández
Amparito
Rafael Orri
Cisco
Ramon Teixidor
Jaume
Antoni Vicent Valero
Martí

 

 

 
  Production team
   
 

Director
Albert BOADELLA
Scenography
Fabià PUIGSERVER
Collaboration
Lluís RACIONERO
Technician
Miquel ARISA
Technician
J. M. IBÁÑEZ
   
   
 

STATISTICAL SUMMARY

Performances
334
Spectators
160.539
Towns
65
Spanish towns  
47
Foreign towns
18
Countries
5