Night Just Before The Forests

AlmaViva Teatro
PRESS RELEASE
09/08/2015

ALMAVIVA TEATRO PRESENTS ITS LAST PRODUCTION

IN EDINBURGH FRINGE 2015 FROM AUGUST 16TH TO
22TH SPOTLITES @ THE MERCHANTS HALL, VENUE
278, 22 HANOVER ST.
Night Just Before the Forests is the ultimate performance conceived
by Csar Barl and Jos Gonalo Pais in Madrid, Spain. Since its
openning in May 2014, the audience and press are agree that is one
of these performances you have to live. An impressive actor who
plays a brutal interpretation alone on the stage and a contemporary
and poetic direction by Csar Barl creates a great show filled up with
poetry and new technologies.
AlmaViva Teatro explores the cry from one man who can be all men
and women. A man living in a certain time, who lived or will ever
live for all time. Because theatre is a mirror game and should be
universal; every person coming into the hall should feel that the man
who is now showing us his situation could be themselves, at any time.
A theatrical proposal filled with poetry. The atmospheres engender an
aesthetic experience at the same time poetic and contemporary. The
use of new technologies through a live video camera resizes the
viewing experience and makes it even closer.
We show Night Just Before the Forests as a whole creative production
in which the audience is part of it.
REVIEWS:
Jess M. Valle, Tragycom.com, said:

Jos Gonalo Pais crosses our mind and our desires with insulting
primitive honesty in this monologue in which we all we dialogue. [...]
Csar Barl, young director, wise and effective, tames space,
atmospheres and hidden harmonies. The use of cameras, film and
music is perfect and stands to the service of the overall concept.
Jos Antonio Alba, En Un Entreacto, said:
An abstract staging, beautiful in its own way and full of symbolism.
Retched with the same rawness of the text itself.
Very interesting use of the camera, making us feel the actors face in
our hands.
David Garca Vzquez, Desde el Patio, said:
It is astonishing all that Jos Gonalo does, its brutal. Every gesture,
every breath conveys a level of anger and incomprehension that
shakes you. And of course, superbly directed by Csar Barl, from
AlmaViva Teatro, in another tremendous outpouring of creativity, good
criteria and ability to understand a text quite difficult to unravel.
Antonio Daz Narvez, hoyenlacity.com, said:
A theatre that retrieves the power of the word, a word that in an
alluring, hypnotic way, takes hold of an audience that ends up
becoming that person who the foreigner wants to retain with a
feverish circular soliloquy, in which the rhythm of the words seduce
you until youre trapped.
Ramn Rivas, Es Madrid No Madriz Magazine, said:
Jos Gonalo Pais is the actor who plays this anonymous character;
an actor with an impressive ability to change and his brutal
performance makes him responsible of cornering the viewer who
contemplates, from his seat, stunned and without blinking, an intense
emotional journey.

A MAN. ALL MEN. A TIME. ALL TIMES.

Night Just Before the Forests, desperate monologue written by French
author Bernard-Marie Kolts between 1976 and 1977, was firstly
staged in 1977 at the Avignon Off Festival. An almost indecipherable
hermetic text that sounds poetic at the same time, taking the viewer
to a personal universe: an alienated prostituted everyday. Kolts
introduces a man a foreigner that might just be every man adrift in
such reality, who holds back people in a dark street where everything
seems to get confused. Confused himself, he tries to express all the
ideas that assault him to that you he has been looking at, turning

around the corner. He might be telling his idea to a person or

all persons.
The performance AlmaViva Teatro presents in this release is the
result of a process of research and investigation over one year and a
half of labour.
In this creation, as we said before, we find a lost guy trying to hold
back someone in the middle of a street, making an effort to be
listened. But we also find each one of the individuals who he stopped.
Those who did not stop. All the people he knew in his wanderings on
Friday nights. We get to know him through the legacy he left recorded
on a video camera for posterity (which is precisely what Kolts did
with his text).
Definetely, it is a show that you have (as Iduna Ruiz in brete
Ssamo said) to see twice.
Its a cry in the silence of the night.
If you have a minute, we will tell you our idea, mate.
Listings information
Production:
Night Just Before the Forests
Company: AlmaViva Teatro (Madrid, Spain)
Venue:
Spotlites @ The Merchants Hall, Venue 278, 22 Hanover
St,
(Up from National Gallery) Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Dates:
Sunday 16 August to Saturday 22 August 2015
Time:
11:00pm (50 minutes)
Tickets:
12-10
Group Discount: 10% for groups of 10+
Friends-of-the-fringe Discount: 2x1
Venue box office: +44 0131 220 5911
Fringe box office: +44 0131 226 0000 / www.edfringe.com
Further information and photos available from:
Mercedes Ladrn de Guevara on almavivateatropress@gmail.com or
Rachel Thomson-King on +44 01634 829468 or +44 07956 369291 /
office@spotlites.co.uk / www.spotlites.co.uk