Oscar Gómez Mata-L’Alakran. Juan Loriente & Oscar

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AZ Associated Artist

Oscar Gómez Mata-L’Alakran Juan Loriente & Oscar Gómez Mata Makers

April 16 & 17 Friday and Saturday

7:00pm Auditorium 15€ / 12€ with Az Card Tickets: Az Info and azkunazentroa.eus

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«THE MAIL ROLE OF MAKERS IS TO INVESTIGATE IN ORDER TO MAKE LIGHT. WE ARE DETECTIVES, WE TRY TO DETECT THE FEELINGS HIDDEN UNDER THE FEELINGS AND FIND A POETIC SOLUTION TO REALITY.». ÓSCAR GÓMEZ MATA.

Oscar Gómez Mata, along with the actor Juan Loriente, presents Makers, the piece created during his residency at the Centre as an AZ Associated Artist.

Makers is a work about light, time and love, that travels between comic overflow and emotional containment, between nonsense and truth.

With regard to the creative process for this piece, the creator differentiates between its more epic side, where theatre is «a form of espionage, of investigation to spy on the world», and its more intimate part, «trying to detect the feelings hidden under the feelings». Makers, according to Oscar Gómez Mata, creates protocols to spy on reality. «This work is a story of overlapping layers, where we strip away what we believe to be the truth to discover something that we did not expect to feel».

In Makers «there is surprise and suspicion. The propitious attitude of the Makers is defined in the words of the philosopher Daniel Innerarity: ‘... reality is complex, and when someone approaches it in a binary way, we have the obligation to be suspicious’».

ARTISTIC SHEET Directed and performed by: Oscar Gómez Mata, Juan Loriente

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Oscar Gómez Mata. Actor, director, author and set designer, his work in the theatre began in Spain in 1987 when he co-founded Legaleón-T, a company with which he continued to create shows until 1996. In 1997 he founded in Geneva the company L’Alakran, acting as director, creator and playwright for various works. He has been a regular professor at Manufacture - the French Swiss School of Theatre - since 2013. (HETSR) Winner of the 2018 Swiss National Theatre Award.

Juan Loriente. An actor from Cantabria, he is best known as a theatre actor, appearing regularly in the works of Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Theatre. He has also appeared in films such as La espalda de Dios (Pablo Llorca) or Smoking Room (Cesc Gay).