King. A production by Gonzalo Cunill and Carlota Subir�s, from the novel by John Berger.2 and 3 October 2007
King is a dog whose owners are Vico and Vica, an elderly couple who live on the Saint Val�ry waste dump, in the outskirts of some great city. Vico is merely waiting for the end. Vica drinks beer and refuses to give in. King is Vico and Vica's emotive, eloquent testimony, as well as the portrait of a city seen from below. King is the dog with whom everyone shares their jokes, their rage, their despair and their memories. King is the portrait of a world that is harsh and cruel, but also enduring and moving.
King, the latest novel to date by the great British writer John Berger - also a poet, essayist, draftsman, art critic and one of the most lucid and engaged observers of reality, both collective and individual, intimate, in contemporary Europe - is a journey into one of the hidden faces of the capitalist illusion: the world of the homeless, the world of those who, at some point, fell through the system and have been ruthlessly converted into its victims.
Produced by La Perla 29 in cooperation with Temporada Alta 2006 - Festival de Tardor de Catalunya and Festival Grec de Barcelona 2007
Spanish translation: Pilar V�zquez
Adaptation: Gonzalo Cunill and Carlota Subir�s
Director and set designer: Carlota Subir�s
Performed by: Gonzalo Cunill
Lighting: Mingo Albir
Sound: Jordi Collet