What I Know
(about what my Grandfather didn’t know)
Artist’s creation
After the Occupy Movement, Sònia starts engaging in activism, reopening a family wound which ends with her leaving her own country. Seventy-six years before, Paco -a mysterious Great-Grandfather that nobody talks about- had fled the country after joining the anarchist movement during the Spanish Civil War.
What I Know (about what my Grandfather didn’t know) explores two generations connected by an economical, political and migration crisis. Through the use of contemporary puppetry and live-streamed projections, visual theatre will play with the silences left by the gaps in our own histories.
Banner: Sònia Gardés
Photos: Daniel Carrasco
“Gardes’ unearthing of her personal history comes at a crucial point in history.”
Credits
Script and direction: Sònia Gardés
Script and direction assistance: Marta Aran
Performance and puppeteering: Sònia Gardés
Puppets, scenography and costume: Sònia Gardés
Micro-cinema assistance: Gavin Glover
Light and music: Xavi Gardés
External views: Daniel Serridge, Freda O’Byrne, Sahand Sahevdivani, Veva Gerard, Alasdair Hunter
Thanks to: José Garnés (el Pepe), Rosa Garnés, Gavin Lashley, Encarna Barreras
With the support of
Previous shows
Teatre Principal d'Olot, Olot (2021)
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh (2019)
Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam (2018)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh (2018)
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow (2017)