Patricia Rodriguez Mendez
28 October 2020 – 23 January 2021
Patricia Rodríguez after taking her first artistic steps in Asturias and subsequently developing an extensive theatrical career in the United Kingdom – Patricia founded the Las Ganas theater company in 2020 and titled the first piece of this new stage adventure with the same name. The company seeks to be a platform for newly created works and is the result of a professional evolution within the theater with a collaborative nature, a specialty developed over the last 15 years with her British company: Little Soldier Productions(link), with which he still maintains a very active work in parallel.
Patricia Rodríguez is an actress, pedagogue and theater creator. Credits as co-creator/deviser: Nothing Happens (Twice) dir Ursula Martinez, Muckers (Caroline Horton, Theater Royal Bath and Conde Duque Madrid), No Way Out (Flight of the Scales. Berlin) With Little Soldier: Derailed, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Stage Award 2014), You and Me (Argus Angel 2013) and Pakita (2011). She has co-directed the show Journey to the Impossible (Little Soldier, 2017). As an actress – among many others – : Get Happy, Heads Will Roll (Told by an Idiot.UK) The Threesome – R&D (National Theater and Told by an Idiot).
Project in residence
Las Ganas
LAS GANAS (El Principio) is a newly created work created by the theater company of the same name. It is a piece with an experimental vocation and close to the performance language that is performed on stage by a single 61-year-old actress who faces the great challenge of realizing her dreams with the help of the public. Starting from autobiographical elements and conceived as a monologue, the work will analyze the artistic impulse as a metaphor for living itself to be an optimistic statement about the human being’s capacity for improvement. We will try to juxtapose the intimate with the epic, always aspiring to show the greatness and beauty of what we believe is small.
The process will also be joined by a team of local artists, with recognized national and international projection, who will contribute to the research process of the visual and sound space.
