“The Homeless Film Festival is a gift”

Arrels Fundació arrives from Catalonia to offer its play “Casting”. We have met with part of the team that directs Laia Vila to find out her expectations about the trip they are about to take.

What is the work you are going to present about?

In studies, when it comes to finding a partner or when you interact with the neighborhood, you are always putting yourself to the test, and sometimes you pass and sometimes you don’t pass. “Casting” goes a little about this. Life is a casting.

How has the process of creating the work developed?

It has been an organic creation process. It has not been a project written from the beginning with a very rigid direction in which it is made clear what the role, the characters or the script are. It has been a creation process in which the grace lies in the nuances that each of us have been able to contribute.

What do you expect from the festival and from Bilbao?

In Arrels we had had other theater groups, and this one was born just now, at the beginning of the school year. We are getting to know each other in this creation process, and having this little gift I think will give us the opportunity to get to know each other for 24 hours with the nerves of performing, staying with you or being a bit of a tourist, which we also want. These things serve a lot to unite the group. It’s an opportunity. Plus, it’s a wonderful opportunity. It is a joy to do things that were unthinkable.