Flood Zone | Spain
Written by Marta Barceló
Translated by HJ Gardner
Directed by Sonya Madrigal
In partnership with UrbanTheater Company
Synopsis Though based on real events, Flood Zone by Marta Barceló takes place in an imagined space, the fictional representation of a small town on the Balearic Island of Mallorca. After hours of intense rain, flood waters overcome the village, bringing death and destruction and transforming residents’ lives forever. The multiple voices featured in the play explore the directions a tragedy can take us, whether down into profound despair, or uplifted by the solidarity of mutual assistance.
Playwright -Marta Barceló
Translator -HJ Gardner
Director -Sonya Madrigal
Playwright - Marta Barceló is a playwright, performer, producer, and trapeze artist from Mallorca. She is co-director of C.IN.E (Centre for Performing Arts Research) and the Ciclop Festival in Sineu. A graduate in Dramatic Art and Physical Theatre from the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, she also studied at The Circus Space in London. She then founded Res de Res company with Biel Jordà and created a series of successful shows including (remor), which won a Total Theatre Award for best Physical/Visual Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her award-winning plays include Abans que arribi l’alemany - Before the German’s Here (the II Dramaturgy Competition of the Balearic Islands); Tocar mare - MOM® (the V Transatlantic Dramaturgy Competition in Buenos Aires); and Anar a Saturn i tornar - To Get to Saturn and Back (the XV Palanca i Roca Theatre Award). Learn more: https://www.catalandrama.cat/en/autor/marta-barcelo-en/
Translator - Since 2010, H.J. Gardner has worked with Sala Beckett/Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia in Barcelona to bring the work of Catalan playwrights to the international stage in English. Her first collaboration was with Esteve Soler on The Trilogy of Indignation and The Trilogy of Revolution. Her translations have been featured at La MaMa in New York City, La Joven Compañía in Madrid, and the Athens Epidaurus Festival in Greece, among others. In 2023, she served as guest co-editor of the journal Metamorphoses: Special Catalan Issue, published by the Edwin C. Gentzler Translation Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Abans que arribi l’alemany - Before the German’s Here by Marta Barceló won the 2021 Plays in Translation contest of the American Literary Translators Association and Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre. Zona inundable - Flood Zone, winner of the 2023 ATAPIB Award, was translated with support from The Institut Ramon Llull.
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