4D Òptic

Teatre

informació obra


Traducció:
Toni Casares
Intèrprets:
Carme Poll, Nora Navas, Antònia Jaume, Sandra Monclús, Nuria Legarda, Jordi Rico, Albert Triola, David Vert, Laia Alsina, Lluís Villanueva
Escenografia:
Javier Daulte
Il·luminació:
Javier Daulte, Manu Martínez
So:
Javier Daulte, Damien Bazin
Caracterització:
Helena Fenoy, Marta Ferrer
Direcció:
Catalina Carrasco
Sinopsi:

Un grup de científics, dedicats a assajar protocols òptics d’alt refinament tecnològic, descobreix per accident una porta que duu a la quarta dimensió, una altra realitat en què una subtrama ens presenta una diva de la cançó que ha d’oferir un recital exclusiu en un castell al peu dels Alps i un grup de delinqüents contractats per una discogràfica per assassinar-la. Però què passaria si les dues realitats tinguessin un punt en comú?

Nora Navas, finalista a actriu de repartiment als Premis de la Crítica 2018.

Crítica: 4D Òptic

31/12/2018

Pure emotional science

per Alx Phillips

Citing the influence of physicist Stephen Hawking and the author Jorge Luis Borges, and using Bernard Herrmann's musical score from the Hitchcock film Vertigo for its scene changes, 4D Òptic by the Argentine playwright and director Javier Daulte marks an exciting trip into 2019. 

This "restoration, not revival," of Daulte's 2004 play is absolutely in the spirit of its influencers: an audacious and entertaining piece that melds the small and banal, with the vast and expansive. It tells the story of a team of Catalan and Spanish scientists who, when creating a machine to help the Japanese fishing industry, accidentally discover a parallel universe: its similarities, discrepancies and exchanges can be subtle and innocuous, but also major and dangerous... 

Access to this world is through an optical shift produced by a flash of light: a timely reflection on perception as a simple trick of the mind's eye that, in the case of differing opinions for example, can have devastating consequences. The collision of the absurd/rational parallel worlds of 4D Òptic threatens to destroy them both. 

The play's staging in the Biblioteca de Catalunya theatre uses minimum resources to maximum effect. The 15th century space is the ideal setting for the historic Urkel mansion of the 'other world'. Here the actors (the same cast as the 2004 production) double their roles to play a band of cronies dressed up as wealthy patrons who are planning a terrible crime. It is up to their parallel scientists to stop them.

Simple and sophisticated, funny and serious, 4D Òptic is imperative viewing. Walking the line between fact and fiction, it reflects on the science of human relationships, uniting the audience through creativity and cosmology in a way that Professor Hawking would have loved.