Ciutats del teatre a les fronteres urbanes: La Cartoucherie al Bosc de Vincennes de París i la «Ciutat del teatre» a Montjuïc, Barcelona

• Antoni Ramon Graells ^[1] ; Guillem Aloy Bibiloni ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: De fronteres i arts escèniques / coord. por Núria Santamaria, Francesc Foguet i Boreu, 2015, ISBN 978-84-943779-0-7, págs. 445-463
• Idioma: catalán
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  • :In 1987, Giorgio Strehler used the term Città di Teatro in order to flesh out urban strategy at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro d’Arte. This paper would like to develop the fortunes of this concept, examining a couple of situations, the «City Theatre» on the slopes of Montjuïc in Barcelona and the Cartoucherie on the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, in whichboth similarities and differences can be found. In 1997, Lluis Pasqual unveils a proposed City Theatre located in Barcelona, around the Palace of Agriculture of the International Exhibition of 1929. This paper will draw on the history of the spaces that housed the Mercat de les Flors and the warehouses in the sixties, before being «discovered» in 1983 by Jean Guy Lecat, sent by Peter Brook, when he was looking for a place to stage Tragédie de Carmen. In addition to its architectural qualities, Lecat must have noticed the border situation in that place, which is situated on theperiphery of the usual theatre places in Barcelona. This project, a more institutional one, will be confronted with the real city built over time at the old factories of Cartoucherie in the Forest of Vincennes in Paris. After performing on Medrano Circus and other places, the Soleil’s company ended up, also by chance, in the old industrial Cartoucherie. Those huge warehouses offered enough space to develop the creative work of the group as they enclosed an empty, neutral space, ready to accept any proposal stage. Viewed in perspective, it seems as if the place had been conceived to the group. It is situated on the outskirts of the city, in a park: a place other, which breaks with the map of contemporary theatre in Paris. A real place where everything was possible and where different groups started to settle down whilemore spaces were opened: the Aquarium, the Tempête, the Épée de Bois, the Chaudron. A living city developed on the fringe of institutions.