A story which, through the medium of humour, explores the loneliness and inability to communicate of different members of the same family.

The creative team that brought you the award-winning André & Dorine has returned once again to the genre of masked theatre, combining seriousness with laughter while it simultaneously moves, surprises and provides food for thought without uttering a single word.

Since it was first premièred, Solitudes has been performed over 150 times in a dozen or so different countries, garnering major awards and accolades.

Genre: Masked Theatre

Audience: Adult-Youth

Format: Medium-Large

Language: No text

Duration: 80 Minutes

SYNOPSIS

The main character in Solitudes feels misunderstood because, like all older people for whom existence has basically become a waiting game, he now focuses only on the simple things in life. Things that are so simple, in fact, that everyone else seems to underestimate their value and true importance. The extraordinary thing about this story is that, unlike what may be expected of someone who no longer has hardly any incentive to carry on, the main character, far from resigning himself to his situation, refuses to give up on his small wishes and fights for them with determination and an innate sense of dignity. Needless to say, this has consequences for both himself and those around him.

One silence is worth a thousand words in this bittersweet comedy about the ravages of solitude. In contrast with the theatre of “blah blah blah”, here is the eloquence of gesture. A long, warm, heart-felt applause crowned the preview in Madrid of Solitudes, the second silent show presented by Kulunka Teatro.”.

(El País)

We are left thinking about howit is they are able to make us laugh while witnessing a tragedy, the crystalline solitude present throughout this beautiful story. And about the mastery of these artists, that make us feel we are better for having seen their work. We are left purified by their art and by their sweet outcry, revealed with the grace of a bumblebee’s flight.

Revista ArtezEspaña

The situations in which the characters find themselves embroiled move us, the errors they commit are familiar ones, their fate concerns us. The actors—masked—are extraordinary, all three of them: sometimes we try to guess who is acting which role, but it hardly matters. The essential thing is the rhythm with which they mark the performance and the emotional density of their efforts... The whole show is characterized by a lucid sensitivity.

El PaísEspaña

One silence is worth a thousand words in this bittersweet comedy about the ravages of solitude. In contrast with the theatre of “blah blah blah”, here is the eloquence of gesture. A long, warm, heart-felt applause crowned the preview in Madrid of Solitudes, the second silent show presented by Kulunka Teatro.

El PaísEspaña

"Kulunka Teatro" has done it again with Solitudes, bringing us a work of art imbued with the same sensitivity and poetic quality that characterized the group’s first work, but here there is another turn of the screw: this time the montage is more elaborate, the mise en scene is more complex, there are more characters and different profiles, and the story takes place in more locations. In Solitudes Iñaki Rikarte moves the three actors — and their multiple masks — sublimely throughout eighty minutes, with a precise choreography perfectly suited to the magnificent music of Luis Miguel Cobo, the author of "Una Auténtica Joya".

El Teatrero.comEspaña

Solitudes speaks to us of our needs as social animals, of loss, of bad decisions and priorities... of life itself. And, again, the three actors that bring to life all the characters move us deeply without saying a single word.

José Dault, Garbiñe Insausti and Edu Cárcamo delight us with their delicate and exemplary work. Their expressivity is a true marvel.

devoim.netEspaña

Solitudes speaks to us very seriously, and we burst into laughter and smiles. It is pure sensitivity and a prickling in the throat.

Volodia.esEspaña

Achieving the impossible and making us feel complicit in the adventure is one of the fantastic aspects of the Company Kulunka Teatro: inexpressive masks that, somehow, take on an astonishing expressivity, guided by a technique of movement theatre that doesn’t let slip a single detail, and in which every movement, small as it might seem, gives rise to a feeling, a joke, a tragedy.

Culturamas.esEspaña

When José Dault, Garbiñe Insausti and Edu Cárcamo take off their masks and offer us their thrilled smiles, we stand up, we applaud, we make a clamorous ovation: not only because they are great creators, but because they have been generous enough to produce a theater so complete that it is capable of offering a moral lesson without ever seeming pedantic, confronting the lack we suffer in our absurd lifestyle without ever getting preachy, heart to heart.

Culturamas.esEspaña
Cast
JOSÉ DAULT
GARBIÑE INSAUSTI / LAURA GARCÍA MARÍN
EDU CÁRCAMO
Music Composer
LUIS MIGUEL COBO
Masks
GARBIÑE INSAUSTI
Set Design and Costume Designer
IKERNE GIMÉNEZ
Lighting Designer
CARLOS SAMANIEGO
Production
KULUNKA TEATRO
Photography
DAVID RUIZ
Poster Photo
DANI CASTILLO
Press Chief
MARÍA DÍAZ

Assistant Director
ROLANDO SAN MARTÍN
Directed by
IÑAKI RIKARTE

AWARDS

AWARD FOR BEST SHOW
MAX. 2018 (SPAIN)

AWARD FOR MUSICAL COMPOSITION
MAX. 2018 (SPAIN)

BEST BASQUE PRODUCTION
ERCILLA. 2019 (SPAIN)

AUDIENCE PRIZE
BE FESTIVAL. Birmingham 2017 (UK)

AUDIENCE PRIEZE
VILLA DE CARTAYA. Huelva 2019 (SPAIN)