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AS SHE TELLS IT

"My great-grandmother spent two years in a prison 400 miles away from her home and her three daughters". AS SHE TELLS IT is a documentary theatre piece based on interviews with several women who lived through the civil war.  Two of them are from Valencia, where I was born, and the other three from Bilbao, where I live now.

This show is a tribute to all the women who suffered the war, the postwar repression and the Franco regime. Based on interviews and collected documentation, the show tells us about life in the shelters during the bombings, the experience of women in prisons, the reprisals, the mass graves, the exile....

It mixes video, performance and direct conversations with the public.
 

NOMINATION FOR BEST NEW PLAYWRIGHT AT THE MAX 2021 SPANISH  THEATRE AWARDS. Finalist at the CENIT Festival (Sevilla).  Mujeres en Escena por la Paz (Bogotá, Colombia); Historical Memory Cycle in Barcelona, Mujeres que Cuentan Festival (Ábrego), Documentary Theatre Festival (Marseille, France), Faki International Theatre Festival (Zagreb, Croatia).

Comments from audience members:

“Magnificent and touching”(S.M),

“We left the theatre moved” (E.N.)..

"Extremely pedagogical " (F.M.),

“ A terrible and necessary solo act. Beyond the history of Spain, of Francoism, of the victims of this dictatorship, of these men and women dragged and battered by human folly, it is the crudity of war that we are told. In this current context of war in Gaza, in Ukraine, the play not only invites us to consider the past, but the present too. The testimonies dramatized by Bea Insa come alive before our eyes, to haunt us once the play ends and we leave the theatre. A tough and necessary show. A contemporary mise-en-scène, with a set design that works in harmony with the performer. To be watched urgently.”(S.G.)

LA PACHECA COLLECTIVE

LA PACHECA COLLECTIVE (SPAIN), is an artistic project promoted by playwright Ángel Mirou and actress/director Bea Insa. Their work combines incisive criticism of Spanish history and society with formal experimentation. They have performed their plays in many countries in Europe and South America.
 

BEA INSA

BEA INSA is an actress, creator, stage director and teacher. Graduated in Dramatic Art in Valencia, she has expanded her knowledge with Odin Teatret, Andrés Lima, Claudio Tolcachir, Anu Salonem, Roberto Romei... among others. She has performed more than twenty professional shows like Medea Material (H.Müller), La Cabeza del Dragón (Valle-Inclán), Orquesta de Señoritas (J. Anouilh) directed by Ramón Barea (Spanish National Theatre Award 2013)... From 2006 to 2015 she was part of the Floating Theatrical Laboratorium “Ship of fools”. She has travelled with her shows across Europe and South America. For Hipólito she received the Award for Best Interpretation at CENIT 2012 (Seville). She was nominated for Best new playwright at the Max awards 2021 for AS SHE TELLS IT.

ÁNGEL MIROU

Angel Mirou is a screenwriter, playwright and translator. In 2004 he joined the writers’ room of Vaya Semanita, a TV comedy show which back then broke taboos in Spain by satirizing the political conflict within Basque society. As a playwright he has had over a dozen plays staged by several Basque companies and public theatres. Those plays often mix absurdist humour and social criticism. 

In 2017 he partnered with actor/director Bea Insa to create La Pacheca Collective. Since then, the company has produced nine theatre shows they have performed throughout Spain, and also Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, France and Greece.

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