Romeo and Juliet – Projecte Ingenu

It was the passion to feel all our strength, discomfort and carnality.

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Synopsis

Romeo and Juliet is the story of a first and last love. The story of two young people who try to discard the legacy of hatred which prevents them from love and from loving each other. When they meet their naïve love is pure, complete, absolute. This joy only lasts for an instant. The moment they know that their love will be affected by the hatred between their families is the beginning of a fatal destiny that ends with the death of the lovers. The inheritance kills them. Romeo and Juliet is the story of the impossibility to detach oneself from his or her own legacy.

About the show

Why are Romeo and Juliet naïve?

The definition of naivety is “lack of sophistication” as well as “presence of sincerity, innocence, simplicity, purity, candor and candidness, without malice”. It also means “freedom”. Is it possible to aspire to a genuine naïve love? Is it possible to be naïve without sacrificing anything, without giving up the received moral inheritance?

When a group of people started the project that ended up being called Projecte Ingenu (Naïve Project), we realized that in order to use theatre as a real tool for human sharing we had to give up many of the usual production methods: rehearsing longer periods of time, finding gaps for collective creation (slow theatre), cooperative work, risky proposals, the return of the actor as the main focus of the performing arts, recovering popular elements (ritual) to address contemporary…

Therefore, it seems that Romeo and Juliet are two of the greatest naïve people in theatre history and this production is possibly a step forward for us to become more naïve than ever. Also for opening a new space of communication with the audience, from honesty, from tenderness, from complicity… For proposing a naïve look to the audience so to play together and discover what are we talking about when we talk about Shakespeare.

Marc Chornet Artells

O-Ton.Kulturmagazin mit Charakter

"Projecte Ingenu offers two hours of modern theater which is so impressive you don't even have to understand the language."

–Michael S. Zerban

Fifty2go

"The tragic story of young lovers is well known, but the staging of Project Ingenu was new and moving."

–Ruth Hoffman

EnPlatea

"Experiences such as ROMEO and JULIET and works such as those of Projecte Ingenu are those that make the illusion of the public spread and develop with a pride and feeling of belonging to what happens on the stage that go beyond the theatrical act until it becomes something valuable , transcendental and indispensable."

–Fernando Solla

Lanza, Diario de la Mancha

"The Catalan company Projecte Ingenu is committed to a very choral, dynamic and hormonal setting with protagonists who leave their being before love and a verve against affronts that only stop the slashes."

–A. Ruiz

Almagro Festival

"Mention to Romeo and Juliet, of the company Projecte Ingenu, directed by Marc Chornet, for assuming a master class of staging: scenery, costumes, lights, sound space and movement are at the service of a flawless Romeo and Juliet from the point formal view and at the same time full of youth, energy and expressive force."

–Jury of Almagro OFF 2017

Recomana.cat

"Marc Chornet's is a fresh, agile, young and, in essence, sincere vision [...], which, together with a scene as clean and multipurpose as the performers make and break down, gives it a beautiful plastic dimension and evocative."

–Núria Sàbat

Recomana.cat

"There are times when it looks like an opera with some excellent a cappella voices."

–Pep Vila

Recomana.cat

"His struggle is choreography. The palace rumors are a rocking song. The density of the slats, the irons, the cleanliness on stage evoked by Peter Brook's mastery are perceived."

–Jordi Bordes

Recomana.cat

"With a galvanizing force this company called Project Ingenu and led by Marc Chornet, bursts into its second foray into Shakespeare, which knows how to make the classic vibrate with very direct and current beats."

–Francesc Massip

Recomana.cat

"And the audience will also see the benefit that can be gained from a clean, clear, well-interpreted version, and I am impressed by the company's awareness that Shakespeare is a word and that a word must be said with excel like here."

–Andreu Sotorra

EspectáculosBCN

"The replacement of Romeo and Juliet by the Ingenu Project is a success. A montage of those that brings us closer to classical theater but at the same time contemporary. A montage with wonderful interpretations. And a translation and adaptation of Marc Chornet and Anna Maria Ricart deserves applause!"

–Nicolas Larruy

MasTeatro

"The actors not only demonstrate a good physical form in the choreographies, in the movements, but they also sing songs by John Dowland, a British contemporary musician to Shakespeare. Through the movement and vocal atmospheres they end up creating a unique space where the romantic tragedy of lovers of Verona is gradually drawing."

–Martí Figueras Martínez

Performed by

Martí Salvat
Clàudia Benito / Roser Tapias
Cristina Arenas / Alba José
Joan Codina
Toni Guillemat
Cristina López
Neus Pàmies
Rosa Serra
Xavier Torra

Show language catalan or spanish.
A Projecte Ingenu‘s production with the support of Nau Ivanow and ICEC.
Show premiered the May 11, 2016 at Escenari Brossa, Barcelona.
Second season from December 7, 2016 at Escenari Brossa, Barcelona.
Third seasonfrom November 6, 2019 at Teatre Akadèmia, Barcelona.

creative team

Author: William Shakespeare
Adaptation and dramaturgy: Marc Chornet Artells and Anna Maria Ricart
Direction: Marc Chornet Artells
Scenography design: Laura Clos (Closca)
Costume design: Laura Clos (Closca) and Teresa del Junco
Lighting desing: Justo Gallego
Choreography and movement: Víctor Josep Rodrigo
Voice director: Neus Pàmies and Rosa Serra
Photography: Andrea Torres