"Paüra" by Cía. Lucas Escobedo. Festival of Performing Arts

October 29, 2021 at the Town Hall Square

Festival of performing arts with the support of the Provincial Council of Alicante

Paüra is born from this collective storm, in this situation where fear occupies a good part of our daily lives. It also emerges trying to imagine what will come and assuming that little by little the waters will calm down and we will recover parts of life that for months have become invisible. We have the desire that, in that return to the world we knew, fear has not taken hold of our being.

There are as many types of fears as there are people in the world. Our objective is not to present a range of each and every one of them, but to use them as a springboard to jump into the void and unfold the wings of humor in that flight.

Paüra immerses itself in the world of comedy to address the theme of fear from that point of view. We could also speak of tragicomedy, or comedy with melodramatic tints; in short, that mixture of genres that are born from the deepest part of each person, where crying and laughter go hand in hand, and intertwine surprising each other through their continuous correlation.

Lucas Escobedo Company was born in 2011 after the premiere of his first solo creation, Boiiiing. Its main driving force is Lucas Escobedo, a multidisciplinary artist from Alicante who draws from both the circus world and theater.