The project

Why does being women imply that what we say is doubted? From a Cassandra that no one believes to a Joan of Arc burned at the stake, from a Christina of Tyre with her tongue ripped out to an Ana Orantes burned alive after denouncing her husband's abuse on a TV show. Unfortunately, it's not hard to find examples of female figures ridiculed, mutilated, or murdered for speaking up in a space traditionally dominated by men.

Several chronicles explain that, in certain episodes of witch burning, the voices of the tortured women rose above the roar of the fire and could be heard long after the flames had extinguished. This haunting disembodied voice that refuses to die is the basis of a stage concert that delves into the world of irreverent and monstrous acts. Because women have always been closely associated with monsters.

Songs for the bitch-witch women is a stage piece blending performance, music, and theater that stems from the need to find "another word"; a physical word that resonates within our bodies, a word that recovers its primordial meaning and sheds euphemisms, a language that does not obey the logics of rational thought. The show is a concert of a woman-monster constantly transforming, who is one and yet is all. An oracle that reads us from within, an attempt to dissolve the invisible line separating the self from the other.

Credits

SONGS FOR THE BITCH WITCH WOMEN
A show by Mariona Naudin

Idea & direction: Mariona Naudin
Creation: María García Vera, Núria Andorrà & Mariona Naudin
Performers: María García Vera / Mariona Naudin & Núria Andorrà
Production: Imma Bové
Dramaturgy: Marc Villanueva
Set & costumes design: Pau Masaló
Lightning design: Ana Rovira
Sound design: Edi Pou & Sara Fontán
Mentor: Sofía Asencio
Artistic adviser: Alberto Cortés
Coproduced by Centre de les Arts Lliures de la Fundació Joan Brossa, Festival TNT, Espai Nyam Nyam & OSIC (Generalitat de Catalunya). With the collaboration of Teatre de Palamós, El Graner-Mercat de les Flors, L’Animal a l’Esquena & “Si no vols pols no vinguis a l’era” Espai Nyam Nyam.

Length: 70 minutes
Songs for the Bitch Witch Women premiered at Festival TNT on 30th September 2023.