Archimedes’ Principle (2011)

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The coach of a children’s swimming group hugs and kisses one of the boys, who is crying during a swimming lesson because he is afraid of the water and does not want to take off his back float. The gesture engenders complaints from some of the parents and spawns a spiral of mistrust that will bring about all kinds of suspicions, prejudices, and fears.

Premiered 4 July 2012 at the Sala Beckett as part of the Grec Festival of Barcelona, directed by Josep M. Miró. Cast: Roser Batalla, Rubén de Eguía, Santi Ricart, and Albert Ausellé. Since then, translated into 15 languages with over a twenty productions and several others underway.

2011 XXXVI Born Prize. The creation of this work benefited from a 2011 grant for the creation of literary works from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (Institution of Catalan Letters). 2011 staging project Award from the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona; runner-up, 2013 Max Award for Best Catalan-Language Text; and four 2013 XIX Butaca Award Nominations (Best Text, Best Editing, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Best Scenic Design), 2013 XIX Butaca Award for Best Scenic Design (Enric Planas).

Spanish State Productions

Catalonia - Madrid

Premiered 4 July 2012, at the Sala Beckett of Barcelona, directed by Josep Maria Miró. Revival at the Sala La Villarroel, 4 April 2013, tour of Catalonia and season in Madrid at the Teatro La Abadía during October 2014. Cast: Roser Batalla, Rubén de Eguia, Albert Ausellé / Jaume Ulled, and Santi Ricart.

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Galicia

Teatro do Atlántico company, directed by Xúlio Lago and translated by Alfonso Becerra de Becerrá. Cast: María Barcala, Toni Salgado, Alberto Rolán and Marco Vieitez. Premiered 6 March 2015.

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Euskadi (Basque Country)

Erre Mascarada company, Basque / Spanish double production, directed by Carlos Panera. Cast (Basque): Tessa Andogeni, Eneko Sagardoy, Xavier Ortuzar and Aitor Fernandino / Cast (Spanish): Lola Baldrich, Javier Pereira, Alvar Gordejuela and Gorka Mínguez. Premiered 29 November 2014 at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao.

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Nicosia (Chipre)

Premiere on 2016 at Dionysos Theatre on Nicòsia. Translated by Maria Chatziemmanouil.

Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)

Premiere on 2016, directed and translated by Daniel Dias da Silva.

Santiago de Chile (Chile)

Premiere on April 2016. Directed by Aranzazú Yankovic and translated by Eva Vallines.

Roma (Italy)

Premiere on 10 December 2015 at Teatro Laura. Directed by Marco Belocchi and translated by Pino Tierno and Simona Noce. Cast: Gianluca Vicari, Manuel Ricco, Laura Monaco and Marco Belocchi.

Montevideo (Uruguay)

Premiere on 16 August 2015 at the Sala Alianza, directed by Mario Ferreira and translated by Eva Vallines. Medio Mundo Gestion Cultural Productions. Cast: Luis Musetti, Chino Noda, Ileana López, and Mariano Prince.

Miami (Florida-ESA)

Premiere on 22 May 2015 at the Teatro 8 in Miami, directed by Kevin Cass, translated by Eva Vallines. Cast: David Chocarro, Anna Silvetti / Rosalinda Rodríguez, Alberto Mateo / Omar Germenos and José Guillermo Cortines. International tour at Teatro de las Bellas Artes de Santo Domingo (República Dominicana) and national tour at the Teatro Apollo 2000, Chicago and Soho Playhouse, New York City. The production and its four performers received five awards in New York 2015 Viva la juventud Prizes.

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Athens (Greece)

Premiered 6 February 2015 at the Theatre Argos in Athens, directed by Thodoris Vournas and translated by Maria Chatziemmanoui. Cast: Antigone Gitana, Panos Malikourtis, Vassilis Tsigkristaris and Alexios Kotsoris.

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Tübingen (Germany)

Premiered 24 January 2015 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen, directed by Michael Hanisch and translated by Nicola Tuschwitz. Cast: Nicole Schneider, Paul Schaeffer, David Engelmann and Robert Arnold.

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Sibènik-Split (Croatia)

Premiered October 2014 at the Theatre Sibenik, directed and translated by Nenni Delmestre. Cast: Bojan Brajcic, Oriana Kuncic, Jakov Bilic and Pere Eranovic.

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Londres (the United Kingdom)

Premiered 15 April 2014 at the Park Theatre, directed by Marta Noguera and translated by Dustin Langan. Cast: Lee Knight, Matt Bradley-Robinson, Kathryn Worth and Julian Sims.

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Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Directed by Corina Fiorillo and translated by Eva Vallines. Premiered 13 March 2014 at the Teatro San Martín. First season extension until 2 July 2014. On 26 September 2014, the production began its second season at the Teatro Ciudad Cultural Konex. On 15 January 2015, it began its third season at the Teatro Apolo. After the final performance on 15 March, the season was temporarily extended until 5 April 2015. Cast: Beatriz Spelzini, Martin Slipak, Nelson Rueda, Juan Minujín (first season), Alejandro Paker (second season), Esteban Meloni (third season) and Luis Gritti (tour).

The play received 7 nominations for the 2014 ACE Awards (Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos): Best Drama; Best Director (Corina Fiorillo); Best Actor in a Leading role (Juan Minujín); Best Actress in a Leading Role (Beatriz Spelzini); Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Martín Slipak); Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Nelson Rueda); and Best Sound Design (Rony Keselman). Rony Keselman won the award for Best Sound Design. Beatriz Spelzini was nominated for 2014 Maria Guerrero award for Best Actress. Martín Slipak was nominated for the 2014 Florencio Sánchez award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Ronny Keselman won the 2014 Trinidad Guevara award for Best Sound Design. Critics Moira Soto, Federico Irazábal, Carlos Pacheco, and Laura Ventura ranked the play as one of the ten best performances of 2014 in the annual theatre summary in the Argentine newspaper La Nación.

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México D.F. (MÉxico)

Premiered 5 March 2014 at the Teatro Julio Castillo, directed by Diego del Río and translated by Eva Vallines. Revival in May 2014 at the Teatro Foro Milán Lucerna. Cast: Mariano Palacios, Humberto Busto, Fernanda Borches and Arturo Barba / Héctor Kotsifakis.

Mariano Palacios was named Best New Actor at the 2014 XXXII Premios Asociación de Periodistas de Teatro (APT) Awards.

Fernanda Borches was nominated for Best Actress and Matías Gorlero for Best Scenic Designer at 2014 Sin Cortesías Awards.

Considered among the best performances in 2014 by Chilango and Time Out México DF magazines.

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Saint Petersburg (Rusia)

Premiered 6 November 2013 at On.Teatr, directed by Elaterina Grohovskaia and translated by Anna Papchenko.

Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

Premiered 1 November 2013 at Teatro Victoria Espinosa as part of the Puerto Rico Theatre Festival, Anilom company. Directed by Mariana Quiles and translated by Eva Vallines. Cast: Omar Torres, Magali Carrasquillo, Carlos Marchand and Francisco Capó.

Staged readings

Staged reading February 2016, Teatre GalataPerform, Istambul (Turkey) as part of the project New Text, New Theatre, translated by Irem Aydin.

Staged reading 29 November 2015, at Nord Est Théâtre (Centre Dramatique National de Thionville-Lorraine). Directed by Marja Leena Junker (Luxemburg) and translated by Laurent Gallardo. Cast: Maud Galet-Lapande, Philippe Maguin, Olivier Piechaczyk and Stéphane Robles.

Staged reading, 18-30 August 2015, Festival Internacional de Brasilia. Directed and translated by Luis Artur Nunes. Cast: Diego de León, Camila Guerra, Marco Michelângelo and André Reis Reis.

30 October 2014, Universtià degli Studi Roma Tre. Subsequent roundtable with the playwright Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Italian translator Pino Tierno and Simona Noce, and representatives from the Sala Beckett theatre (Barcelona).

Cycle de lectures d’auteurs contemporanis (contemporary playwrights reading programme) by the Comédie Française at the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier (Paris), directed by Noam Morgensztern. Cast: Alexandre Pavloff, Julie Sicard, Benjamin Jungers and Félicien Juttner. Best text of the series, according to the Comédie Française associated audience’s voting. 7 July 2014.

Thêátre du Rond-Point (Paris), April 2014.

Le principi d’Archimède was part at the 2013 Mousson d’Êté and was broadcast in September 2013 on the prestigious France Culture radio station.

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Panta Thêátre in Caen (Normandy), March 2013.

Authors and directors center in Moscow (Russia), October 2012.

Publications

Published in Catalan, Spanish, Galician and Basque by Arola Editors (prologue by Laurent Gallardo), Primer Acto magazine (Spanish translation by Eva Vallines), Revista Galega de Teatro magazine (Galician translation by Afonso Becerra) and Artezblai (Basque translation by Iñaki Ziarrusta). Archimides’ Principle, English translation by Dustin Langan (published in the playbill of the Park Theatre in London). O Principio de Arquimedes, Brazilian Portuguese translation by Luís Artur Nunes (published by Cobogó).

Translations
El principio de Arquímedes Spanish translation by Eva Vallines
O principio de Arquímedes Galician translation by Afonso Becerra
Arkimedesen Printzipioa Basque translation by Iñaki Ziarrusta
Archimedes’s Principle English translation by Dustin Langan
Das Archimedisch prinzip German translation by Nicola Tuschwitz
Le principe d'Archimède French translation by Laurent Gallardo
ЗАКОН АРХИМЕДА Russian translation by Anna Papchenko
Il principio di Archimede Italian translation by Pino Tierno and Simona Noce
Η αρχή του Αρχιμήδη Greek translation by Maria Chatziemmanouil
Arhimedov zakon Croatian translation by Nenni Delmestre
O principio de Arquimedes Portuguese translation by Brasil by Daniel Dias da Silva
O principio de Arquimedes Portuguese translation by Brasil by Luís Artur Nunes
Principiul lui Arhimede Romanian translation al romanès by Luminiţa Voina-Răuţ
Законът на Архимед Bulgarian translation by Нева Мичева
Prawo Archimedesa Polish translation by Rubi Birden
I methodos tou archimidi Turkish translation by Irem Aydin

El principi d’Arquimedes, was one of ten texts selected by Acción Cultural Española AC/E (under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) within the Program for the Internationalization of Contemporary Spanish Authors, with the aim of translating the text into several languages and facilitating the staging of the play for professional foreign companies. The country chosen in the first edition is Brazil, and a translation into Brazilian Portuguese has been completed.

Cinema

Catalan film director Ventura Pons created the cinematic version of the play titled Virus of fear, produced by Els Films la Rambla with the collaboration of TV3. Premiered 4 September 2015 in the World Greats section of the Montreal World Film Festival (Canada).

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Lectures

The kiss scene, lecture by theatre scholar Fabrice Corrons (Université de Toulouse-II-Le Mirail) at the Congreso Teatro Siglo XX1, held in Vigo, Spain on 28 November 2013.

Artículo La escena del beso Fabrice CORRONS 1102

Authored Plays

Archimedes’ Principle (2011)

Spanish State Productions

Catalonia - Madrid

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Galicia

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Euskadi (Basque Country)

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Internationals Productions

Nicosia (Chipre)

Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)

Santiago de Chile (Chile)

Roma (Italy)

Montevideo (Uruguay)

Miami (Florida-ESA)

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Athens (Greece)

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Tübingen (Germany)

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Sibènik-Split (Croatia)

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Londres (the United Kingdom)

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Buenos Aires (Argentina)

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México D.F. (MÉxico)

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Saint Petersburg (Rusia)

Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

Staged readings

Publications

Translations

Cinema

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Lectures