The Catalans Cal Teatre meet for the first time at TOPIC doing a creation residency, under the direction of Dora Cantero.

Throughout this week they are carrying out the structure of the entire piece “The play is already written, what we have to do here at TOPIC is to close it at the dramaturgical level, in addition to making all the decisions at the scenographic level and the construction of puppets ”, says the director of the show.

‘Filthy lie’, which is the title of this piece, proposes a reflection on the concept of truth for children, but without falling into the topic of ‘you can’t lie, or lying is wrong’, which is told to them when they are little ones. “The concepts of truth and lies, so polarized, prevent children from being able to discover that there is a large scale of gray in between and that the only way to find them is to consider the possibility of doubt”, affirm the Cal Teatre actors , Jordi Font and Carlos Gallardo.

To talk about the subject in question, the Catalan Company lets itself be carried away by the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ and uses it as a reference for the construction of lies like a house, a hilarious and fun metaphor with a free version of the classic tale. “We are talking about a dramaturgy like a construction game, the architecture of a lie with surreal overtones where the three little pigs, social networks and influencers shake hands.”

Both Font and Gallardo, the actors in this show, are used to children approaching their stories in a natural way and without duplicity, they already saw it in their previous work, ‘Game of chairs’, the normality with which they face concepts that are not easy, that’s why in ‘Metira cochina’ they work on the combination of their own languages, deepening their experimentation, and at the same time looking for innovative languages.

The work will be premiered in the Canary Islands, under the auspices of the Fundación Caja Canarias, a week before the Titirijai celebration, to which they will go with it hand in hand. After this stay at TOPIC they will travel to another Creation Residency, in Arenys de Mar (Barcelona), where they will work on the artistic and technical aspects. “Before coming here to Tolosa we were in residence in Alella de Mar and at the Casa del Teatre Nu. Residencies for us artists are extremely important because they are like intensive courses given the degree of involvement that you can have with the work, away from any interference”.