THE CONGRESS DOESN'T GO PASSESondel Palmas de Gran Canaria Cuyás Theatre Friday 21/02/2025 19:3001:30Saturday 22/02/2025 19:3001:30SynopsisV21-S22 FEBRUARY, 19.30H.
THE CONGRESS DOESN'T GO PASSES
A creation by La Calòrica
Text by Joan Yago
Directed by Israel Solà
A co-production by La Calórica, Teatre Lliure and Centro Dramático Nacional.
SHOW IN FRENCH WITH SPANISH SURVEYS.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Metternich knows that revolutions must be stopped before they start. To this end, he has invited the leaders of Russia, England and Prussia to spend a few days in Vienna. Little does he know that news of the congress will arouse the curiosity of all the world's governments and that what was supposed to be a simple meeting will turn into a mass party that will last for more than nine months.
It is not easy to separate territorial negotiations from romantic conflicts, ideological debates from simple ego struggles. It is hard to know when we are celebrating and when we are working. Meanwhile, the bottles of champagne are starting to run out, the food trays are getting scarcer and the return of an old enemy makes us think, for a moment, that perhaps things could be different. The Belgian delegate Charles-Joseph de Ligne writes in a letter: “The congress does not advance, it dances.”
NOTE FROM THE COMPANY
The defeat of Napoleon and the failed end of the revolutionary period serve to demonstrate that absolute monarchy is the natural order of things: it is the only possible system. In the autumn of 1814, the four great powers of the Ancien Régime hold the first international summit in history in Vienna with the aim of perpetuating their power and ensuring a strong response in case the people revolt again. Meanwhile, thousands of kilometres away, a volcano has just erupted.
Le congrès ne marche pas is a play about the Vienna Congress of 1814, the end of the Ancien Régime and our capitalist society which is celebrating itself on the verge of collapse. A grandiose, frivolous and rabidly political comedy.
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DURATION: 1 hour and 30 min. approx.
PRICE: €23 / €20 / €15 / €12
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