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European Theatre Festival Eurothalia

October 12, 2016, 6 p.m.-6:50 p.m., in studio hall of the Hungarian State Theatre “Csiky Gergely” Timișoara

Much Ado about Nothing

Creation, direction and performance: David Espinosa –– Production: El Local E.C./Festival Clásicos en Alcalá/C.A.E.T. Terrassa (Spain)

Collaboration: África Navarro –– Stage design: AiR / David Espinosa –– Sound and music: Santos Martínez / David Espinosa Performance in English with German and Romanian translations.Image and video: Diego Dorado/David Espinosa –– Supported by Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Performance in English with German and Romanian translations.

We set out to create a large scale show, developing all the ideas that turned up however expensive they were, with unlimited equipment and artists. But obviously with one small detail: everything would be in miniature. The challenge was, on the one hand to achieve a performable work of this size, and what we would do if we really could work under these conditions, and on the other hand to question this megalomaniac creative artistic model which suffers very high budgets, whose real value and contribution to the performing arts can rarely be proven. And this last point is what brings us back to “Much ado about nothing. [...] We emphasised the critical point of view of the monumental works which are very ornate but lacking in content, very gimmicky and dishonest works where the large dimension seems to justify its value and artistic interest, but from the eyes of a humble artist they are a waste of money, easy resources, and time”.

Press excerpts

“I would say that this is both a profound and knowledgeable look into Shakespeare, through the prism of the childish, the funny, the minimalist.”


Kamelia Nikolova, in Bulletin, Bulgaria

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