The latest creation from Pablo Messiez arrives in the form of music. Making its debut last September, Las canciones tells the tale of a group of people who meet up to listen to different genres of music. What started as something inoffensive, a group simply listening and signing along to songs, ends up being something that transforms them all. While writing and creating this work, Messiez took inspiration from the characters and situations found in the plays of Chekhov, most notably Three Sisters and Ivanov. Messiez digs deeper into the human condition and the mystery of existence through both listening and not listening due to the absence of sound. “I wanted to create a work in which listening is more important than looking,” recalls the author, and it’s just as Olga says in Three Sisters: “The music is so happy, so joyful, and it seems as though in a little while we shall know what we are living for, why we are suffering.”
An El Pavón Teatro Kamikaze production.
Text
Pablo Messiez, inspired by characters and situations from the works of Anton Chekhov
Director
Pablo Messiez
Performers
Javier Ballesteros
Carlota Gaviño
Rebeca Hernando
José Juan Rodríguez
Íñigo Rodríguez-Claro
Joan Solé
Mikele Urroz
Production directors
Jordi Buxó
Aitor Tejada
Executive producer
Pablo Ramos Escola
Producer
Víctor Hernández
Scenography and costumes
Alejandro Andújar
Lighting
Paloma Parra
Sound desing
Joan Solé
Choreography
Lucas Condró
Assitant director and subtitles
Javier L. Patiño
Translation
Lorenzo Pappagallo
Tour manager
Celia Mira
Tour equipmen technician
Víctor Sánchez
Tour sound technician
Iñaki Ruiz Maeso