The Joglars do in Zenit a fierce criticism of the media as we know it today and the society on which they report, that is to say, about us, beings consumers of information garbage, compulsive creators of hashtags and ignorant opinionators who always have something to say. On whatever topic. The work begins by recreating in a poetic and evocative way, on a minimal scenery, the evolution of humanity throughout history to plant ourselves in the editorial office of the Zenit newspaper, afflicted with all the evils he suffers (and spread) today's journalism: the overexploitation of scholarship holders, shortage of time and money (which makes journalistic investigation impossible), prioritizing sales above all else (even from the facts), the sensationalism, couch journalism done from your mobile phone without barely stepping foot on the street, selling pans and sticks selfie on sundays, biased headlines, manipulated photos, miserable salaries, attention to the morbid and the anecdotal versus the primordial, the lack of its own information agenda that distinguishes some media from others, the consolidation of journalism-entertainment that adopts the mechanisms of the soap opera... In the face of all this, resiste tambaleante Martín, a drunk journalist from the old guard overwhelmed by technology and by this new journalism more attentive to the clicks that of the events. “Ethics are not good business advisors”, The owner of the newspaper says at one point in the play. This devastating panorama that Els Joglars draws for us, direct and without frills. S.M.
Ahlam, dream of a life
FRIDAY 16/10, 20H.
A window to the stories of Palestinian women refugees in Lebanon based on the comic by Susana Martín and Cristina Bueno.
