Mi gran obra/My Great Work

Mi gran obra is what I would do if I had an unlimited budget, the largest theatre in the world, 300 actors on stage, a military orchestra, a rock band, animals, cars and a helicopter. My Great Work is a utopia. The reality in which I create is characterized by precariousness and lack of means, and this precisely has always been the focus of My Great Work.

In Mi gran obra we are staging a large-scale show, sparing no expense, developing all the ideas, using all the material and working with an unlimited artistic team. All this with a slight drawback: a scale. Thinking big but doing small. The result is a show playing with different non-conventional narratives. It is a portrait of the society in which we live. It contains metaphors that each viewer can interpret in their own way.

Crossings Festival
miniature show
puppets
utopia
without words

Awards and festivals

  • Best Golden Laurel Wreath for Best Actor/Actress (ex aequo), Golden Laurel Wreath of the Audience, and Festival Critics Team Award for Best Performance at Mess Festival, Sarajevo, 2014.
  • Home Prize at BeFestival, 2014.

Video

Created and directed by:
David Espinosa
Performers:
David Espinosa, Cia. Hekinah Degul
Assistant director:
Africa Navarro
Music and sound:
Santos Martinez, David Espinosa
Stage space:
David Espinosa, AIR models and architecture projects
Production:
El Local EC., CAET, in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Distribution:
MOM-El Vivero
Financial Support:
Project grant from the Artists in Residence Programme of Bilbaoeszena