NANA DEL CABALLO

NANA DEL CABALLO is a devised piece directed by Gemma Rowan. It is based on the play El Público from the spanish playwright Federico García Lorca. In Nana del Caballo Romeo and Juliet are tuck withing the walls of the theatre. They are forced to play the same role over and over again. They are the living dead, never fully alive and yet they cannot die, as when the performance is over they sit up behind the curtain and prepare themselves for the next repetition of their tragic love story. But enough is enough! Romeo and Juliet rebel against the director's and the audiences ideas concerning the theatre and its purpose.

El Público was written in 1930 by the spanish playwright Federico García Lorca. One of his most experimental works, the play poses a multitude of questions concerning human experience. The themes the author brings to the surface such as the role of the theatre, sexuality, gender, convention and individuality are as relevant today as they were when the play was conceived.

Nana del Caballo is a development of "Nudos" (Knots) a performance first worked on by the group in 2004. Throughout the process of developing Nana del Caballo we were interested in creating work that was inspired by the many questions the text raised for us at that moment in time. El Público has continued to be an endless source of inspiration for our work.