La Casa Azul

GUILLE MILKYWAY: is working on the play “La Dona Vinguda Del Futur”

This year, the Teatro Nacional de Cataluña, led by its director, Sergi Belbel, has decided to dedicate the 2012-13 program of the Nacional’s Grande Room almost entirely to young playwrights. And here at Elefant Records we are celebrating that “La Dona Vinguda Del Futur”, written and directed by Marc Rosich and with Guille Milkyway’s special participation, is among the plays included in the program.

The play is partially conceived as a musical, for adults and children (but especially geared towards children 8 and over), and it begins by showing the morning routine of Albert’s family, who live at the speed the TV commercials set. After a an accident at home that leaves them all covered in stains, a woman dressed in galactic attire comes out of the TV screen: the woman from the laundry detergent commercial comes from the future to help them. But the situation surprises the family so much that, after a series of misunderstandings, the woman gets trapped in the present reality. While Albert tries to find a way to return her to the future, the cybernetic woman grows accustomed to the family and stirs up the peace and quiet of their home.

This play is an important step in Marc Rosich’s career – he is one of the most important young artists on the current theater scene, and the usual playwright of the controversial Calixto Bieito in shows like “Voices”, “Don Carlos” and “Plataforma”. Marc has recently worked as a playwright on two plays, “Falstaff” in the Centro Dramatico Nacional, directed by Andrés Lima from the theater group Animalario, and “Hedda Gabler” in the Teatros de la Abadía.

This is an incredible new achievement on Guille Milkyway’s CV which, under his name or LA CASA AZUL’s name, has shown his ability to express his personal way of understanding music in different contexts. He has especially shown his way of understanding the world of children, with the theme song for “Zona Disney” for Spanish TV, the Nesquick commercials, his remixes for the famous “Yo Gabba Gabba” show in the USA, the songs for the TV show “Jelly Jamm”, and the theme song “It’s Cartoonito Time” for the recently launched channel Cartoonito (Cartoon Network) in Europe. Guille is currently working with Marc on six pieces and various jingles for the play, parallel with writing the script, which shows how important a part the music will play in this creation.

 With several songs and choreographies, and playing subtly with irony, “La Dona Vinguda Del Futur” also has Beth (the one that was a contestant on Operación Triunfo, and is currently an actress, with roles in plays like “Tirant Lo Blanch” and movies like “Xtrems”) as the star. Marta Puig (Lyona), creator of videos for groups like SIDONIE, THE NEW RAEMON and LORI MEYERS, is in charge of the images and projections for the show. The play will open in February 2012 in Reus, and after a small mini-tour, will arrive at the Grande Room of the Teatro Nacional de Cataluña in spring of next year and then will travel all over the peninsula.

We won’t miss it for the world!!!

Marc Rosich