Show «Manifest Mangione»

The play starts from a shocking fact: on a freezing December night, somewhere in the United States, the chief executive of a large corporation is gunned down. The bullets — marked with three unsettling words, Deny, Defend, Depose — trigger a media earthquake. Within hours, the young perpetrator of the crime goes from being unknown to becoming a viral hero, projected by a society that consumes justice, morbid fascination and opinion at the same speed.

Under Carol López’s direction, the production unpicks how collective narratives are made and how the boundary between information, public judgement and fiction dissolves live. The staging, designed by Jose Novoa and Lucía Romero Tovias, creates a visual ecosystem that dialogues with the digital chaos that amplifies everything. Marc Lleixà’s lighting and Lucas Ariel Vallejo’s sound design accompany a nervous, almost hypnotic narrative rhythm.

The cast — Judith Forner Gallardo, Asier Gilabert i Ibáñez, Arnau Guillén i Carulla, Fidel Pallerols Rossell, Élida Pérez Lucena, Alba Roldán Gil, Andrea Sánchez i Sos and Carlos Ulloa Marín — portrays a society that watches, comments, manipulates and lets itself be carried along by the most viral image.

The result is an uncomfortable mirror in which to see ourselves reflected: a theatrical thriller about how we build heroes, how we condemn the guilty and how, amid constant noise, truth always remains in dispute.