Odin Teatret: 60 Years of Theatre. Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley

A Character That Cannot Die: a film by Claudio Coloberti in collaboration with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley, 2019 (35 min.). Mr Peanut is the skull-headed giant that Odin Teatret created in the 1970s to evoke Jimmy Carter, the US president who had made his fortune in the peanut industry. His many subsequent transformations turned this character into an icon of the work of a company that is as politicised as it is far removed from political theatre.

The Flying Carpet: demonstration by Julia Varley (60 min.). “Text is a carpet that has to fly far away.” This sentence is the premise for a demonstration in which the actress Julia Varley works through the text fragments she has performed over the past fifty years with Odin Teatret.  

Conversation with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley (60 min.). One of the most brilliant theatre creators of the last century and his closest collaborator talk to the public about inner truth, introspection as well as physical and vocal work, the foundations of acting ever since Stanislavsky.

All three activities will be conducted in Spanish.