El Conde de Torrefiel

The Swiss-Spanish duo Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert are the driving force behind the collective El Conde de Torrefiel. Together, they have been challenging European theater for years with performances that blend theater and music with dance, music, and storytelling. 'La luz de un lago' goes even further and pushes the boundaries of our imagination.

'La luz de un lago' immerses the spectator in the imaginary of a film that is sustained through stage, words and presence. The plot of 'La luz de un lago' is woven by the fragments of life of characters who live in different places and times. The stories appear and disappear, they are inside each other as in a matryoshka of narrativity, a mise en abisme in the deep water of time: a couple who meet at a concert in Manchester, two secret lovers in Athens, a transsexual woman in Paris and a premiere at the Fenice Opera in Venice. 'La luz de un lago' is about love, work and violence in a world that visually collapses between mirages, trompe l'oeil and hallucinations.

With an innovative staging that challenges the limits of language and theatrical conventions, La luz de un lago invites the audience to witness a chain of invoked but elusive images, using scenographic walls, projected text, voice-overs and an immersive sound composition. Throughout the work, the constant struggle to find clarity in a world full of blurs is reflected. 

As usual in the artistic proposals of El Conde de Torrefiel, vision and listening enter into collision, in a turbulent oscillation where a crack opens up in the meaning and gives way to the possibility of a place for the spectator's imagination: the only possible image on stage.