Groenlàndia at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

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We sometime in the twenty-first century.
The sources of oil are exhausted, and while the new energies are not yet available to most of the population, the remaining oil reserves are in the hands of a tiny minority who has fled a powerful class cities and more populated areas to the most inhospitable places on the planet as Greenland, the limit as far as possible of all civilization, now converted into an island haven not yet reached the last effects of the oil that was ends: the so-called "plastic island" stretching from ocean to ocean.
The widow of an oil tanker with a rare disease, a white rapper with creative crisis, a hunter of seals and caribou, an Ultraman seeking the limits of his body, a traveler without crossing limits ... are some of the last members of the expedition to the island of Inuit, an ancient culture now endangered.

After studying philosophy at the University of Barcelona, ??Jordi Faura was formed as a playwright and director in Barcelona, ??Paris and San Miniato (Italy). He is the author of more than fifteen theatrical texts, including Hikikomori (The Villarroel, 2009), Still Life (Beckett, 2008) and The Happiness Factory (Tantarantana Theatre, 2009). He also signed the libretto of the opera Eternal Dawn (Teatre Fortuny, 2009) and the dramatic parts of the island as monsoon (Room Villarroel, 2010), sand and Academy (Space Brossa, 2008) or Amputation (Romea Theatre, 2007), among others. He has received several awards, including the City Theatre Prize Alzirato Still Life, Solitude by Hikikomori Prize or Prize for drama Bartrina the waiting room.
Ages: Production recommended for 14 years and over