The actor Sergi López, known for his film career that includes titles such as Pan’s Labyrinth and With a Friend Like Harry, has swapped the big screen for the theatre to present Non Solum, a monologue based on improvisation, together with Jorge Picó.
Sergi López and Jorge Picó premiered Non Solum at the Festival Temporada Alta de Girona-Salt in 2005. Since then it has been performed about 250 times. On this occasion it is being shown in Montevideo with the support of AC/E’s PICE / Mobility programme.
Non Solum was translated and adapted to French in order to be premiered in Marseille in January 2007 and ran for a season in Paris in February that year before touring Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, with performances in France, Belgium and Switzerland and recently in French Polynesia and Latin America.
In 2009 Non Solum was elected the best show of the season at the Teatre del Mar din Mallorca – a recognition awarded and decided by the spectators’ association. In 2006 it was nominated as the best show for the Premis de Teatre (theatre awards) of the Generalitat Valenciana (regional government of Valencia). Jorge Picó and Sergi López also won the Max award in 2009 for the best text written in Catalan, and Sergi López received the silver Fotogramas award for the best theatre actor in 2009; these prizes are also decided on by the votes of the magazine’s readers. In April 2010 he secured the performing arts prize as actor of Non Solum at the 6th edition of the Terenci Moix international award for literature, cinema and the performing arts.
Non Solum is an existential comedy about a desperate man who multiplies himself to answer a question: what is happening here? And while we laugh, one of them laughs about nothing. Another sings a song. Another tells us about his first time with an alien woman. The rest get angry when they realise they are all the same person. They travel together with a woman asleep in a box. On the road to paradise it appears that all questions have an answer and pain only exists slightly. He is accompanied on his journey by a wooden box and some plastic glasses that look fake. His destiny is to doubt relatively about everything absolutely. What’s wrong? They don’t believe me.
Sergi López and Jorge Picó premiered Non Solum at the Festival Temporada Alta de Girona-Salt in 2005. Since then it has been performed about 250 times. On this occasion it is being shown in Montevideo with the support of AC/E’s PICE / Mobility programme.
Non Solum was translated and adapted to French in order to be premiered in Marseille in January 2007 and ran for a season in Paris in February that year before touring Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, with performances in France, Belgium and Switzerland and recently in French Polynesia and Latin America.
In 2009 Non Solum was elected the best show of the season at the Teatre del Mar din Mallorca – a recognition awarded and decided by the spectators’ association. In 2006 it was nominated as the best show for the Premis de Teatre (theatre awards) of the Generalitat Valenciana (regional government of Valencia). Jorge Picó and Sergi López also won the Max award in 2009 for the best text written in Catalan, and Sergi López received the silver Fotogramas award for the best theatre actor in 2009; these prizes are also decided on by the votes of the magazine’s readers. In April 2010 he secured the performing arts prize as actor of Non Solum at the 6th edition of the Terenci Moix international award for literature, cinema and the performing arts.
Non Solum is an existential comedy about a desperate man who multiplies himself to answer a question: what is happening here? And while we laugh, one of them laughs about nothing. Another sings a song. Another tells us about his first time with an alien woman. The rest get angry when they realise they are all the same person. They travel together with a woman asleep in a box. On the road to paradise it appears that all questions have an answer and pain only exists slightly. He is accompanied on his journey by a wooden box and some plastic glasses that look fake. His destiny is to doubt relatively about everything absolutely. What’s wrong? They don’t believe me.