IN SHORT ⟶ An impromptu party in a forest, the last conversations of passengers shortly before the plane crashes, the journey from Tripoli in the hope of reaching Italy. ULTRAFICCIÓN NR. 1 is a work of words and sounds in connection with the environment. It is an assemblage of interwoven fractions of time grafted onto a bank of the Tiber in the dissolving between dusk and twilight.
On the last weekend of the festival, Short Theatre 2024 steps onto one of the banks of the Tiber for the last outreach of PRISMA 2024 dedicated to El Conde de Torrefiel.
An improvised party in a forest, the final conversations of passengers before a plane crash, the journey from Tripoli with the hope of reaching Italy. ULTRAFICCIÓN NR. 1 / FRACCIONES DE TIEMPO is a theatre work composed of words and sounds interacting with the environment. It is an assemblage of intertwined moments in time, set on the banks of the Tiber as sunset fades into twilight. Manipulating stage elements according to the logic of perception, ULTRAFICCIÓN NR. 1 / FRACCIONES DE TIEMPO takes the audience on a journey through sounds and literature before a screen as large as the stage itself.
Divided into four parts, the performance deconstructs the categories of theatre and reality. As time passes and night falls, the boundaries between all things become fleeting and porous: shadows engulf the environment, and sounds interrogate nature, causing reality to gradually dissolve into a disconcerting phantasmagoria. By land, air, and water, stories converge in this space where distances no longer exist. Reality turns into fiction. And vice versa.
ULTRAFICCIÓN NR.1 / FRACCIONES DE TIEMPO is part of
PRISMA — Twilight Zones
El Conde de Torrefiel in the city of Rome
El Conde de Torrefiel is a project led by Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert, founded in 2010 and based in Barcelona. Their research has given life to an aesthetic that merges theatre, writing by bodies, literature, sound research and plastic arts in its exploration of the ambiguities of contemporary life. Among their main works, GUERRILLA (2016), LA PLAZA (2018), Una imagen interior (2022), La luz de un lago (2024). Their shows and installations toured theatres and festivals in America, Asia and above all Europe: the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, the Viennaer Festwochen in Vienna, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Festival GREC in Barcelona, Short Theatre in Rome, the MMCA in Seoul, the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico, the Transámerique Festival in Montréal and the Festival d’Avignon, among others.
Tanya Beyeler (Lugano, 1980) moved from Switzerland to Spain when she was 20 to study Dramaturgy and Human Sciences in Barcelona – she graduated in Drama in 2005. She began to work in the field of textual theatre but time and experience brought her close to dance and performance.
Pablo Gisbert (Ontinyent, 1982) studied Philosophy at Valencia University and Dramaturgy in Madrid. He graduated in Dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona in 2011. In the same year he was awarded with the National Accesit prize Marqués de Bradomín for his text A cinema burns and ten people are burned. In 2013 he was selected for the European dramaturgy platform Fabulamundi: playwriting Europe.
concieved by El Conde de Torrefiel
direction, dramaturgy, text Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert
sound-enviroment Rebecca Praga and Uriel Ireland
sound Uriel Ireland
technical coordination Roberto Baldinelli
distribution Alessandra Simeoni
executive production CIELO DRIVE, Santarcangelo Festival – Futuro Fantastico
translations Nika Blazer (English), Tanya Beyeler (Italian)
with the patronage of Roma Capitale – Municipio XI
ph. Inés Bacher
