My father
is an ogre

Multidisciplinary theatre

Recommended audience age for family performances: 8 years and upwards
Recommended audience age for school performances: 10 years and upwards

Performance running time: 50’

With text. Available in Catalan, Spanish, English.

Actors’ number: 2
Technicians’ number: 1, in scene

Optimal assembly time: 4h
Optimal disassembly time: 2h
Optimal stage measures:
9m width [+1,5m of wings on each side] x 8m depth x 7m height
Minimal stage measures:
7m width x 6m depth x 3,5m height
We could make a technical sheet implementation to your scenic space to start from its characteristics.

Premiere: 23/05/2017 – Teatre Municipal de l’Escorxador, Lleida, Catalonia

Michael grew up not knowing his father, a man whom everyone called "the Ogre". He has heard nothing from him for many years. Now grown up, he is visited by a man who shared a prison cell with his father and who has a letter from him. Thus, Michael discovers the previously unknown story of a solitary Ogre with a dark past, who has always kept a place for his beloved son in his heart. He finds out that thanks to that love, his father never stopped being human.

Author: Jokin Oregi, La Baldufa: Enric Blasi, Emiliano Pardo, Carles Pijuan
Direction: Jokin Oregi

Music: Òscar Roig
Lighting design: Anjos Fernández
Set & costume design: Carles Pijuan
Set construction: Juan Manuel Recio, Ferran López, Carles Pijuan
Dressmaking: Olga Cuito

Actors:
· Ogre and Michael: Carles Pijuan or Emiliano Pardo
· John: Emiliano Pardo or Enric Blasi

Production and Distribution: La Baldufa

Coproduction:
Théâtre de l’Archipel, Scène Nationale de Perpignan
Grec – Festival de Barcelona

Collaborators:
Forum Nice Nord
Teatre Municipal de l’Escorxador de Lleida
ICEC – Generalitat de Catalunya
INAEM – Ministerio de Cultura
Institut Ramon Llull