MACHO MAN

The purpose of the installation is to raise awareness and bring to everyone's attention the situation of male violence in Spain. MACHO MAN is a scenic and experimental journey in the form of an installation where the audience becomes the protagonist of the show, moving through different spaces as if it were a labyrinth. The spectator-participants are provided with a specific system of wireless headphones that will act as a guide, a documentarian or simply help to complete the spatial composition by means of a sound environment. Each of the eleven spaces has an independent and autonomous character, with its own mechanism of interaction, which forces the audience to be always receptive, adding images, sensations, experiences that make up a whole with the aim of making the audience aware of gender violence in the couple, family, work, social and judicial spheres. What is happening? Who are the victims? How difficult is it for them to recognise and accept that they are victims? What mark have human beings left over the centuries through education? What are our own actions or non-actions? What do we do and what don't we do? Why is it that today a woman, just because she is a woman, continues to be a potential victim? How do the powers that be react to these events?

In a tour of approximately 60 minutes, the audience will enter in groups of 6 people who will be separated and reunited in different rooms. Every 8 minutes a new group enters to relive this experience. On this journey the public will read, walk, listen, choose and interact with the spaces and with other participants.

Direction and creation: Àlex Rigola.
Content advisor and expert psychologist in gender violence: Alba Alfageme Casanova.
Assistant director: Alba Pujol.
Assistant director: Irene Vicente Salas.
Playwriting team: Ferran Dordal, Alba Pujol, Irene Vicente Salas and Àlex Rigola.
Space design: Max Glaenzel.
Stage assistance: Judit Colomer.
Sound design and QLab: Igor Pinto.
Video editing: Alejo Levis.
Dubbing recording: Beatgarden (Pau Romero).
English dubbing: Molly Malcom.
Sound technician: Ferran Puertolas.
Electrical technician: Àngel Puertas Sala.
Responsible for the assembly: Raul Vilasís.
Construction: Pascualín Estructures and Òscar Hernández "Ou".
Translation and corrections: La correcional. Serveis textuals.
Executive production: Clara Aguilar, Jordi Puig "Kai" and TITUS ANDRÒNIC S.L.
Distribution: Art Republic (Iva Horvat).

Thanks to Maria Domènech, Rosa Salas, Núria Marín, Mireia Mascarell, Ramona Glaenzel, Elena, Javier Torres, Fundació Surt, Ajuntament d'Hospitalet, Servei d'Infància i Família de l'Institut Mallorquí d'Afers Socials and Marta Hierro from the documentary "Els Monstres de Ca Meva" for the children's materials contributed to the project.

This documentary theatre installation contains real testimonies of male violence. It may offend the sensibilities of some people.

Recommended for children from 3rd ESO upwards.

With the collaboration of the Departament d’Igualtat i Feminismes de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and the Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals.
MACHO MAN is a co-production of Heartbreak Hotel, Titus Andrònic S.L., Temporada Alta 2018 and Teatros del Canal.