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Dali lies on his deathbed with all the exuberant theatricality of one of the art world's greatest eccentrics and conjures up the child Salvador. Together they recreate the wild surrealist world of his life and paintings on an everchanging stage where nothing and no-one are quite what they seem. Thus Miro becomes a delicate girl with long blonde plaits, Kandinsky, Pollock and Mondrian are petulant adolescent clowns and Picasso a ventriloquist's doll, manipulated and pampered. Garcia Lorca neatly seques into Dali's wife Gala; Hitler into a Punch and Judy World War I tableau, which dissolves into Dali's most resonant image of dripping clocks. This portrait of the century he inhabited, his idols, his repressed childhood, his contemporaries, the manipulation of the media and, of course, his art is presented with the utmost theatrical invention by nine actors and imaginative use of film, photographs and computer graphics. As the broad strokes of Dali's brush re-create images of his work across the stage, so his fame, life and legacy are coloured in. Visually glorious, dripping with fantasy and surreal humour, this is Dali - spiny lobsters and all! Run time 2hrs. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles. Contains some strong language and nudity.

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Author: Els Joglars
Adapted by: Albert Boadella
Director: Albert Boadella