THE GIGANTON

Pau is a 33-year-old man, the age of Christ. He has just bought an apartment with his wife in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona. He is happy with his job and Judit.

They love each other, they look at each other with love and tenderness while they take out all the objects from the boxes and place them in their places: a Tortell Poltrona poster, an electrocardiogram, photos, photos of a happy family; a Christmas lunch, Easter, a jump in the pool... he remembers how he loved his grandfather. His grandfather was a Francoist.

El Gigantón is a monologue written by an actor, Pau Vinyals, and in this case performed by the author himself. It is a creation process to find words for all the silences that inhabit a family, a town. A trip from the town to the city and from the city in the middle of the forest and from the forest to the dining room at home. From public to private space. El Gigantón is an autofiction of the inheritance received, of an attempt to face the construction of a home.

What has my family done to defend their properties? What would we be capable of to defend our home? What would we do to save a child?

The tribe can be used to help each other or to take up arms and fight against the other. We are afraid and we fear that what we believe is ours, what belongs to us, will be taken away from us. We rarely really worry about whether we are drowning others. We are too afraid to die, to see our own die, and in that act of salvation we trample that

Authorship: Pau Vinyals | Direction: Pau Vinyals and Júlia Barceló | Performer: Pau Vinyals | Technical and production assistance: Carla Tovias | Scenography: Judit Colomer | Costume: Joan Ros | Musical Composition: Arnau Vallvé | Assistant director: Miguel Uriz | Lights: Judit Colomer | Production management: Júlia Simó Puyo