Sticking Place
"Screw your courage to the sticking place and you will not fail" – Lady Macbeth.
The sticking place is a piece of theatre devised through the lens of the body and visual composition. It investigates the idea of the self as a construction conditioned by our family relationships. The ‘sticking place,’ within the world of the piece, serves as a figurative terrain of unwavering courage, within which we are able to face the subterfuges of our inherited existence, preserve the authenticity of the personal, and achieve the triumph of freedom.
Cast & creative
Conception, dramaturgy and direction Nuria Legarda Andueza
Devised with the performers Josep Casanova González, Andrea Marinel·lo Lamiel, Laia Merino Olmo
Set, costumes and lighting Patricia Arbizu, Alejandra Lorenzo (FDP Scenography BA)
Development and technological research Clara Rendé (TFM in Telecommunication Engineering), Tindari Sgró (FDP in Engineering of Telecommunication Technologies and Services)
Sound Sam Gillett
Assistant to the director Ona Salas Batlle (Transversal practices Direction BA) / ESAD figures Paula Muñoz Ninou CSD Emilia Arias García, Candela Capitán López, Hilario Montoro Garcia, Maria Ollé Herce
Professor and coordination UPC Ramón Bragós
Coordination ESAD Elisabet Castells i Negre
Photography Felipe Mena
Thanks to Vilma López, Marc Ases, Carlos Lucena, Toni Suñé, Xus Martinez (IT Theatres), Carme Vidal (IT Wardrobe), Eric de Gispert Koper, Oriol Serra Pineda (IT Audiovisuals), Montse Amenós, Jon Berrondo, Anna Solanilla, Soraya Hidalgo, Ferran Marques, Montse Vellvehí, Raimon Molins, Magda Puyo
Exhibition space
Espacio Scanner, Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. March, 2019.
The sticking place, perhaps some realm which transfixes our attention, or perhaps the spot on an animal’s neck pricked for sacrifice. Nuria, in her magnificent production, manages to convey both meanings: the audience stays fixated upon the marvellous images she creates, whilst at the same time puncturing, like knives dissecting human behaviour.
Nuria Legarda, in The Sticking Place, as is ever the case in her work, shines focus to the invisible threads that weave our relationships, the spaces that we inhabit, the desires and fears that we must almost never confront and the internal forces which come to our rescue, when all appears lost. Scenes pass by before our eyes, with both the delicacy and violence of a stifled scream, landscapes, which are replete with sound, sights, motion and comedy and the necessary smoke on the stage to tolerate the pain of existence.