La luz de un lago at the Théâtre de l'Odéon: a love film without images by El Conde de Torrefiel

From November 4 to 16, 2025, the Théâtre de l'Odéon welcomes La luz de un lago, a creation by El Conde de Torrefiel as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris. A play in Spanish, with French surtitles, that transforms the theater into a laboratory of mental images.

The Catalan collective El Conde de Torrefiel, founded by Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert, takes over the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris from November 4 to 16, 2025 with La luz de un lago, a concept show at the crossroads of theater, literature and visual abstraction. Presented as part of the Festival d'Automne, this creation promises to be a sensory exploration of the story of love, without fixed images or embodied characters. It's a theater you can watch with your eyes closed, or almost.

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La luz de un lago presents itself as a love film without images, or more precisely, a film of which only the text, the voice, the places and the rhythm remain. Four narratives follow one another - in Manchester in the 1990s, in post-crisis Athens, on a Paris metro train and in Venice at anopera premiere - forming a mosaic of narrative fragments. The stories brush up against each other but do not complete each other, and their incompleteness becomes the very material of the performance. On stage, the words scroll by, carried by a voice and a moving set, made of projected surfaces, assumed voids and visual ellipses. The absence of bodies, faces and concrete sets forces spectators to reconstruct the film in their own minds.

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This proposal is aimed at an audience open to stage experimentation, curious about radical theatrical forms, somewhere between textual performance, installation and mental experience. La luz de un lago moves away from narrative conventions and traditional dramatic embodiment, making the spectator's active reception the heart of the work. Imagination becomes the real setting, with each spectator composing his or her own images from the text. This show may disconcert lovers of classical theater, but it will appeal to those in search of a theater of ideas, where words replace bodies and the stage becomes a space for mental projection.

With La luz de un lago, El Conde de Torrefiel proposes a sensory and mental theater, where words replace images, and absence becomes matter for the imagination. A rare experience, which questions the way we receive a story, and which finds its rightful place at the heart of the Festival d'Automne à Paris.

This article is based on information available about the show and is not based on a viewing of the piece.

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