Political, intimate and spectacular

The article analyses selected performances from the Venice Biennale International Theatre Festival 2015. On the spectrum of quality performances with political and existential messages were works that showed an affinity for “modest” theatre, which still draws inspiration from Grotowski (La Zaranda), works with innovative design, which tend towards a revival of the modernist tradition while introducing new strategies of performance (Fabrice Murgia), and even experimental performances of a highly mixed genre. An example of the latter is the project by the group Agrupación Señor Serrano, in which exhausted theatrical conventions are displayed with radical freshness.