The SGAE Foundation has awarded the 2023 Max Honor Award to the Catalan firm Tricicle in recognition of its profession, an award that the members Joan Gràcia, Paco Mir and Carles Sans have thanked and which they may gather on April 17 on the Gran Teatro Falla in Cádiz: “They have been saving us the Gordo de Navidad”.
The SGAE has awarded Tricicle for his “splendid and prolific profession, stuffed with successes, till reaching a distinguished place within the historical past of the performing arts, for creating his personal scenic language and stamp, of a common nature, for his mastery and genius within the artwork of mime, and for ennobling and exalting each comedy and gestural theater”.
Awarded “by the general public”
The three parts have ensured that all through their profession, which led to December 2022, they haven’t obtained many awards: “We have obtained few awards, however we now have been fortunate to have been awarded by the general public, with the exhibits at all times full , the evaluations have been good. We can’t be indignant with the theater atmosphere”, mentioned Gràcia.
For this purpose, he has thought of that this Max of Honor is deserved, recalling that that they had not been nominated in previous editions with their exhibits, however that “they have been saving the Christmas Gordo, the Max of Honor for profession”, which they delightedly obtain and with which they take away the thorn.
Sans recalled that the Fine Arts Honor Award was obtained in Jerez de la Frontera, which is why Cádiz has develop into a province the place they must go searching for the awards.
Carles Sans has remarked that Tricicle has been a ‘uncommon chook’ and so they have at all times adopted the margins, which has made it tough to categorise them as a result of they did neither mime, nor theater nor traditional clown, however he has defended that they’ve created their very own style which provides them has given it a “distinctive persona”.
comedy award
Sans has referred to the “ascentral criticism” that it’s harder to award comedy than drama, a scenario that doesn’t change, and has mentioned that evidently transcendental issues are valued greater than leisure.
“The juries proceed to worth drama, anguish or social consciousness greater than a comedy,” he identified, to which Mir -who has two Max Awards in parallel tasks to Tricicle- added that he believes that for the time being of rewarding laughter is seen as one thing extra mundane whereas drama is seen as unintended and harder.
Asked what position administrations ought to have with tradition, Sans assured that they need to make issues simpler by serving to creation, and Gràcia advocated that administrations and corporations be nearer, “they do not must be combating with one another”, for be other ways of seeing tradition.
43 years on stage
The three members, who mentioned goodbye to the stage two months in the past with 5 performances of ‘Hits-Chimpún!’ on the Gran Teatre del Liceu, they recalled that the farewell was “great” and, concerning the components for his or her success, they mentioned that the rhythms have modified, however that the human essence of their gags has remained intact.
The trio based Tricicle in 1979 in Barcelona, on the peak of the explosion of gestural theatre, and they’re the authors of exhibits resembling ‘Manicomic’, ‘Exit’, ‘Slastic’, ‘Entretres’, ‘Sit’, ‘Garrick’, ‘Bits’ and ‘Hits’, and introduced their farewell in 2018 for 2020, however the coronavirus pandemic brought on it to be postponed till December 4, 2022, once they carried out their final efficiency on the Liceu.
Throughout its historical past, Tricicle has given greater than 6,200 performances, has visited greater than 400 theaters in 20 nations around the globe and has been attended by greater than 4.2 million spectators.