Bouvetøya (la necessitat d’una illa) (At distance)

Julio Manrique has imagined an island where everything is possible, even making the invisible visible. The festival’s opening show endeavours to take the audience to a place where culture and knowledge are cared for and preserved as a treasure, valuable and fragile in equal measure. The director, inspired by Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451), Shakespeare (The Tempest) and other writers, welcomes the audience with a production that seeks to be an act of resistance and rebellion. A defence of what seems unnecessary until extraordinary events show that the intangible – such as culture and beauty – can also be a good of first necessity.