What I Know
(about what my Grandfather didn't know)
2021
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Previous shows
Teatre Principal d'Olot, Olot (2021)
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh (2019)
Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam (2018)
Scottish Storytelling Ctre, Edinburgh (2018)
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow (2017)
Artistic team
Dramaturgy and Direction
Sònia Gardés
Dramaturgy Assistance and Co-Direction
Marta Aran
Performer
Sònia Gardés
Puppets, Scenography and Costume
Sònia Gardés
Visual Theatre
Sònia Gardés
Light and Music
Xavi Gardés
With the support of
Xavi Gardés
Freda O'Byrne
Gavin Glover
Tortellà council
Photography by Chantal Guevara and Daniel Carrasco
After the Occupy Movement, Sònia joins different activist movements, opening a family wound which ends up with her leaving the country. Seventy-six years earlier, Paco -a mysterious Great Grandfather who no one ever talks about- had fled after joining the anarchist movement in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War.
What I Know (about what my grandfather didn’t know) explores two generations connected by an economic, political and migration crisis. Through the use of contemporary puppetry and live-streamed projections, visual theatre appears to fill the gaps that silences left in our history.
Feedback from the audience
Reviews
"It was so well played, fascinating, poignant and tender, I loved it"
Gavin Glover, puppeteer
"I was absolutely touched by everything I saw"
Member of the audience
"Wonderfully moving"
Member of the audience
" Gardes’ unearthing of her personal history comes at a crucial point in history"
