About 'La Bella Otero'

In 2020, Pablo Macho Otero and Emma Arquillué joined forces to found the company La Bella Otero with the aim of addressing complex themes in an entertaining way. Their first show is Burying Dodot, an absurdist dystopia straddling Beckettian theater and the Black Mirror universe, which premiered at the Teatre La Gleva in Barcelona in January 2021, after having been part of the Samuel Beckett Cycle at the Sala Beckett as a staged reading.At the end of 2021, it premiered at the Sala Tarambana in Madrid and had a second run in Barcelona at the Teatre Tantarantana.In early 2022, it won the D’Ensayo Prize for Theater and Science from the Zaragoza City Council.

Their second project is Loco Amoris, an autofictional work about a long-distance relationship between Paris and Barcelona that reflects on the fictional dimension of love.It premiered in May 2021 at the Teatre Tantarantana, where it had a second run in the fall of 2021. It then premiered at the Teatro Lara in Madrid in the fall of 2022 and was part of the Temporada Alta Festival in Girona, the 20th Circuit of the Network of Alternative Theatres, the Insòmnia Festival by the Balañá Group, and the Temporada Alta Festivals in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Lima.After a tour of Catalonia, it returned to Barcelona for a run at the Sala Versus Glòries in the fall of 2023. The third show is George Kaplan by Frédéric Sonntag, which premiered in March 2023 at the Teatre Tantarantana.The project consisted of a new translation and adaptation of the text that, since its French premiere in 2011, has toured the world and become a kind of “contemporary classic” about the use of fiction as a weapon of mass manipulation.A Fuego is the company's fourth project, which premiered in June 2023 at the Teatre La Gleva.During the 2023-2024 season, the show was part of the Temporada Alta Festival in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Lima, the dFeria Festival in San Sebastián, and the Off Festival at La Villarroel.In the 2024-2025 season, it was part of the 22nd Circuit of the Network of Alternative Theatres, returned to the Off Festival at La Villarroel, and premiered in Madrid at the Teatro de la Abadía.The company's latest project is Prosopopeya, which premiered in January 2025 at the Espai Lliure of the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona.A multidisciplinary piece in verse that blends different theatrical forms, it uses mirrors, masks, and faces to explore the mystery of the self.