The grand production no budget could ever afford, served in miniature. In Mi gran obra (My Great Work), Espinosa imagines what he would do with an unlimited budget: the largest theatre in the world, 300 actors, a military orchestra, a rock band, animals, cars and even a helicopter. But he stages it all at a 1:87 scale, using a table, tiny figurines and a small audience gathered around it. The result is a silent visual tragicomedy packed with detail, where miniature figures create scenes about life, death, love, sex, absurdity and the contradictions of the contemporary world. A work that plays with the utopia of large-scale production to speak – with humour and a healthy dose of bite – about precarity, artistic ambition and delusions of grandeur.
David Espinosa
Stage creator, performer and director, David Espinosa trained in acting, contemporary dance, improvisation and capoeira, and has worked as a performer with artists and companies including Àlex Rigola, Mal Pelo, Sònia Gómez and Sergi Faustino. In 2006, together with África Navarro, he founded El Local Espacio de Creación, from which he has developed a body of work centred on exploring the limits of representation, scale, the body and theatrical devices. His works have been presented at festivals and venues such as the Venice Biennale, Cena Contemporânea de Brasília, TNT Terrassa, Escena Contemporánea Madrid, Radicals Lliures and La Casa Encendida.