Copacabana
Not available for tour
Premiere venueFiraTàrrega
Created in2009
Countries13
Performances done225
2012 Drac d'or
Best interpretation at Fira de Titelles de Lleida
2010 FAD awards Sebastià Gasch
Applause to the best emergent creation
Artistic and technical team
Original idea and direction
Sergi Ots
Script creation
Emilie De Lemos, Sergi Ots
Assistant director
Emilie De lemos
Assistant director and production of Ponten Pie
Borja Nieto
Cast
Natàlia Méndez, Emilie De Lemos, Sergi Ots
Choreography
Sheila Ferrer
Scenic design and construction
Jordi Dorado
Props construction
Jordi Dorado, Natàlia Méndez, Borja Nieto, Emilie De Lemos, Sergi Ots
Costumes and accessories
Espe Pascual
Sound
Erin Ruiz
Lighting design
Quim Aragó, Francis Baena “Metal”
Special effects
Marcos Díaz
Photography and graphic design
Eva G. Alcántara
Drawings
Edu Turull
Culinary advisor and menu design
Victor Quintillà
Thanks to
Carmeta and Joanfer, and our families, Elia, Jordi Prat i Coll, AADPC, Antigua i Barbuda , Los Corderos, Fiona Rycroft, DOSC, Col.lectiu La Flama, Carro de Baco, Comediants, La Paparra, l’Avalot Teatre, Pablo Demoling, Sergio Martínez, Jacobo, Marc Castro, Marlako, Rocio, Dani Diaz, Mamen, Pau Sarraute, Circ Cric, Lalà and Màgic
With support from:
Institut Ramon Llull
Restaurant la Lluerna
Teatre Sagarra
ICEC
Escena Poblenou
La Red Recomienda
FiraTàrrega
Escènica
Ciatre
Synopsis
COPACABANA is a combination of visual theatre and theatre with objects, live cooking and cabaret, in an unusual set up.
Ponten Pie transforms a theatre into a restaurant where there has not been much business for a while. The staff (three chefs: Rita, Laura and Marco) is trying to keep the place alive with the few resources they have left. The audience, an essential character in the show, will become the customers of the COPACABANA restaurant and will be immersed in a 360 degree performance, where they can taste small quantities of the delicious food cooked live by the three chefs. The spectator will be part of a world where reality and drama are constantly mixing. A complete and unique experience in an especially unusual set up.
Behind the kitchen of COPACABANA we find three cooks, descendents of a well-known chef at the Bimil circus, closed not long ago. When the circus closed, our three cooks decided to return to Europe with little resources and open a restaurant in an old building on the outskirts of the city, hoping to make their fortune.
Months have passed and no one has eaten at the COPACABANA. One night, out of the blue a group of seventy people enter the restaurant. Despite not having enough food or tables for everyone, the three cooks decide to serve a meal to their customers. The urgency of the situation will bring them back into the universe of the old Bimil circus, completely changing the course of the evening.
There is a table for you behind the curtains. Would you like to have dinner?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to… COPACABANA.