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In the film The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson, the French heroine, asked how she knew that the voice heard was that of an angel, replies: «Because I had the will to believe it». This served as the cue on which Pablo Messiez based his piece, which in 2023 was proclaimed play of the year in Spain and is now performing for the first time in Italy.
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Teatro Grassi
La voluntad de creer opens with Amparo coming back from South America together with his wife, who is pregnant. There are complications with the pregnancy, and Juan, Amparo’s brother, is the only one who can help her wife; convinced he is the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, he wants to believe he can perform a miracle, and thus, a miracle is performed.
Drawing inspiration from the film Ordet by Carl Theodor Dreyer, based in turn on the play by Kaj Munk, Messiez examines the relationship between will and faith, suggesting that this lies at the foundations of the pact with the audience that makes theatrical fiction possible.
Maintaining that the absence of the spectator deprives the ritual of theatre of all meaning, the director has chosen to create this play by rendering all the rehearsals public, thus demonstrating that, even in the creative process, action is only possible by sharing the will to believe.
Duration: 90’ without intermission
La voluntad de creer opens with Amparo coming back from South America together with his wife, who is pregnant. There are complications with the pregnancy, and Juan, Amparo’s brother, is the only one who can help her wife; convinced he is the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, he wants to believe he can perform a miracle, and thus, a miracle is performed.
Drawing inspiration from the film Ordet by Carl Theodor Dreyer, based in turn on the play by Kaj Munk, Messiez examines the relationship between will and faith, suggesting that this lies at the foundations of the pact with the audience that makes theatrical fiction possible.
Maintaining that the absence of the spectator deprives the ritual of theatre of all meaning, the director has chosen to create this play by rendering all the rehearsals public, thus demonstrating that, even in the creative process, action is only possible by sharing the will to believe.
Duration: 90’ without intermission
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© Nacho Carretero
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© Nacho Carretero
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© Nacho Carretero
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© Nacho Carretero
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© Nacho Carretero
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© Nacho Carretero
Credits
La voluntad de creer
ITALIAN PREMIERE
text Pablo Messiez, based on The Word by Kaj Munk
directed by Pablo Messiez
performers Marina Fantini, Rebeca Hernando, María Jáimez, José Juan Rodríguez, Sergio Adillo, Mamen Camacho
stage design Max Glaenzel
lighting design Carlos Marquerie
sound design Iñaki Ruiz Maeso
lighting assistant Juanan Morales
costumes Cecilia Molano
body training Elena Córdoba
directing assistant Javier L. Patiño
technical direction Estaporver
sound technician Iñaki Ruiz and Pablo de la Huerga
machinery Víctor Sánchez
theme music Viene clareando (Atahualpa Yupanqui) version by Leda Valladares and María Elena Walsh, Vidala del último día (Raúl Galán and Rolando Valladares) version by Sílvia Pérez Cruz
production assistant Roberto Mansilla
executive production Pablo Ramos Escola
production management Jordi Buxó and Aitor Tejada
a Teatro Kamikaze and Teatro Español coproduction
with thanks to all the audiences that accompanied us during the rehearsal process and to Sílvia Pérez Cruz
for the writing of this play, the author attended a writing residency programme at the Sala Beckett in 2022
with thanks for their collaboration to
A show in Spanish with Italian and English surtitles by Prescott Studio
The surtitles are not visible in rows 18 and 19 of the stalls
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