Marina Guiu Almenara - LA MUDA / PART B. THE PERFORMATIVE

(*) Note on the translation. I preferred to preserve the original name of the project LA MUDA in Spanish during the entire website, the main reason is it works as the name for the main character. It would be translated as The Silenced One.

Performative work of the project LA MUDA. A HOLE BET WE EN THE STE RN U M A ND THE NAVEL
Creation, dramaturgy, production and acting, Marina Guiu Almenara.
Direction, Marina Guiu Almenara and Raquel Arnaiz Diego.
In distribution 2026.

Funded by Instituto de Mujeres - Ministerio de Igualdad del Gobierno de España
With the support of Fundación Vicki Bernadet, Can Felpa, Nau Ivanow, Teatre de l'Escorxador, Antic Teatre, Casa Elizalde, Casa Elizalde, Sala Fènix, Carla Vall Duran, Dones a Escena, Nou Cercle, Albert Llimós and Violeta Assiego Cruz.

The documentary theater, the private becomes public. The search for a visual language on stage begins: painting, audiovisuals, streaming images mixed with text-based theatre, body and movement, all of it intended to bring the audience closer to the world of M, this self-destructive adult who is Marina and, at the same time, is everyone.
The stage space recreates a painting studio, a blank paper, a canvas that encloses the actress in it, mutating and being stained.
The audience is a visitor, an accomplice, and a protagonist.

photos by ©Tristán Pérez Martín

SYNOPSIS

March 2021. Iceland. The Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts. For days, it had been sending warnings, shaking the island so many times that the ground became unstable and it finally exploded.
A few days later, M exploded too.
She thought that reporting the man who abused her as a child can no longer remain a private matter.
And she erupted. And she began painting all that shit and vomiting it all out, without caring who she was staining.

But what happens when we believe we are not a valid victim?

TRAILER
de Tristán Pérez-Ma rtín.
(featuring the songs VALTARI, by Sigur Rós and A New Error, by Moderat)

TEASER
de Júlia Latorre Barcala.
(featuring the song Rollin’ & Scratchin’, by Daft Punk)

PROMO PHOTOGRAPHY
by Júlia Latorre Barcala.

ON STAGE PHOTOPGRAHYY
official by Tristán Pérez-Ma rtín and Júlia Latorre Barcala.
selection during the tour by Marina Egea and Albert Canalejo.

foto de Júlia Latorre Barcala

foto de Tristán Pérez-Martín

foto de Marina Egea

foto de Albert Canalejo

ITINERARY TO DATE

2022, October / Nau Ivanow and Festival Fabià Puigserver, Alt Empordà (Girona)
2022 - 23 / Can Felipa, Barcelona. Proyecto residente
2023, 21 April / Can Felipa, Barcelona.
2023, 4 - 22 October / Sala Fènix, Barcelona (PART B + C)
2023, 24 November / Can Felipa, Barcelona
2024, 11 y 12 January / Teatre de l'Escorxador, Lleida
2024, 10 March / Lo Sindicat, Flix, Lleida
2024, 4 - 7 April / Antic Teatre, Barcelona (PART B + C)
2024, 9 - 23 November / Barcelona Districte Cultural (PART B + C)
2024, 25 November / Sant Quirze del Vallés
2025, 7 y 8 March / Teatro del Barrio, Madrid (PART B + C)
2025, 28 y 29 November / Casa Elizalde, Madrid (PART B + C)
2026, 30 April / Casa Elizalde, Barcelona (PART B + C)

THE TALKS

With the aim of ensuring that this project also serves as a tool and space for care, prevention and awareness-raising, the performances and visits have been accompanied by talks addressing sexual abuse in childhood, as well as sexual violence, which are closely interconnected. To support this work, alongside the project’s artistic team, we have the support of several professionals with expertise in gender-based violence, children’s and women’s rights, and the performing arts:

- Vicki Bernadet Rius, President of the Vicki Bernadet Foundation, an organisation dedicated to the comprehensive support, prevention and awareness-raising around child sexual abuse.
- Violeta Assiego Cruz, activist, lawyer and specialist in children’s and women’s rights.
- Carla Vall Duran, criminal lawyer specialising in gender-based, sexual and vicarious violenc.
- Dones a Escena, association and space for debate, reflection and action bringing together women working in the performing arts in Lleida (Spain).
- Nou Cercle, space dedicated to support, accompaniment and the prevention of child sexual abuse.
- Albert Llimós, journalist, writer and manager of investigation specialized in sexual violence at the newspaper ARA.