Odiseas

Each audience member is asked to bring their mobile phone fully charged. This is the message that the company La Mecànica shares with those attending its theatrical festival Odiseas. Once teenagers aged 12 and over, along with adults who were once teenagers themselves, step into a stage space with the feel of a nightclub, they will be able to interact through the innovative Kalliôpê app, created by the Epic Foundation of La Fura dels Baus, and become part of the performance. Audience members will be grouped by affinities and will receive instructions, inviting them to take part in a series of actions, either using their phones or connecting with fellow spectators.

In an earlier work, Las pequeñas cosas, La Mecànica explored generational divides in order to question them. In Odiseas, they return to this theme, using mobile phones as a bridge between people, focusing not on age but on the likes, opinions and feelings of those who choose to respond. Mingling with the performers in an intimate stage setting, audiences are invited to an immersive theatrical experience that blends live physical performance with digital technology.

Odiseas marks the international expansion of La Mecànica, with 80 performances of the show already confirmed for this year. Founded in 2016 in Mallorca, led by women and specialising in physical and visual theatre alongside the executive production of large-scale international projects, the company has consistently combined artistic creation with social and community engagement. Their previous productions include De nuevo un instante tan breve, presented at the Festival d'Avignon in 2016, Water Falls, a physical street theatre piece created in 2018 in collaboration with the Czech company Mime Prague, Las pequeñas cosas in 2021, and Robert Wilson’s UBU in 2022.