ZUM. Crecerá un jardín

About the show 

Los Bárbaros and the Nuevos Dramáticos have been having fun and making things together. We’ve been doing this since January. We still don’t know exactly what will come of it, but over this time we’ve realised there are things in the world that aren’t quite how we’d like them to be, and we thought it would be fun to come up with some solutions or alternatives. For example: we want to cap the price of kebabs at €2.50, set up summer camps for teachers, and have people who protect us like the great Super Pepe Nillo.

Our demands are clear and can be summed up in three: take back the squares, spend more time with our friends and have more flowers.

We want almost the same things as bees.

This is called ZUM. Crecerá un jardín.

Writers’ and directors’ note

We felt both fear and joy when the Dramático called us to invite us to work on the Nuevos Dramáticos project, but we felt more joy than fear, and that’s why we said yes. Over the course of our lives, in very different ways, we’ve learned a great deal by listening to children, and we’ve realised that spending time with them is one of the best ways to expand reality and allow it to surprise us again. And that is, in itself, a political stance. One that is far less naive than it might seem. Yes, they’re capable of believing in miracles and fantasies — but at the same time, they’re incredibly practical and direct. They won’t accept just anything, they never tire of asking questions, and they’re suspicious of every lie.

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that stories are like a basket for gathering fruit, seeds and many other things. And if stories are a basket, then why not use them to collect questions, fears, desires and demands as well? ZUM. Crecerá un jardín is the basket we’ve filled together — the Nuevos Dramáticos and us. We have filled it for you. First, for the joy and pleasure of doing it. Second, because we wanted to tell you something. And not necessarily in this order. We started by imagining a not-so-distant future — one not so different from the futures we hear about every day in the news — and we travelled there to try and turn it around.

In short, together we have prepared a buzz.

Los Bárbaros and the Nuevos Dramáticos