Gentry
_Set design
Created by Mariona Naudin, Ireneu Tranis, Alba Valldaura
Dramaturgy by Marc Villanueva Mir
Costumes by Adriana Parra
Video by Ventura López Kalász
Sound design by Guillem Llotje
Light design by Pol Queralt
Photography Roger Rossell
Coproduction of Festival Grec with the support of Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, La Poderosa, Fabra i Coats and L’Estruch-Ajuntament de Sabadell
This project won the Adrià Gual Award 2017
Gentry is a documentary theatre project that tackles the ongoing gentrification processes in Barcelona and the political and social movements that are struggling to stop them. Gentry is the result of a long research project, carried out in Barcelona, Berlin and Venice, that involved more than 50 interviews with town planners, architects, activists, journalists, politicians, lawyers and affected neighbours, which are edited and partially reproduced and interwoven by the performers by using the technique of Verbatim theatre. Theoretical and historical approches to gentrification merge with the testimony of evicted and displaced neighbours, in a space configuration that places the audience on stage and forces it to move, while four screens produce an immersive space that shifts between the reality of space as a place for cohabitation and the virtuality of the city regarded as an investment product.