After a lifetime on stage tricycle and three months after their last performance, the Max Awards have recognized the worth of the original Catalan mime group with the Max Honor Award. For Carles Sans, Paco Mir and Joan Gràcia The news has been very well received. All of them will attend the next April 17 to celebrate the performing arts festival organized by the SGAE Foundation, which this year will be held at the Gran Teatro Falla in Cádiz. “We will not carry the prepared speech. We prefer to be spontaneous,” Carles Sans assured El Periódico.
For him, this award is “the icing on the cake” a race to which they put an end to the Liceu, after his ‘Chimpun!’ end last November. “In the 40 years that we have been working, they have not nominated us once. I was more than a fly with the subject but it seems that they had the surprise reserved for us for the end. Welcome. It was time!” says Sans, the The only one of the trio who maintains his presence on stage with the monologue ‘Per fi sol’, where he allies himself with words and leaves gestures in the background to make people laugh with stories related to the group and his personal life. Carlos
“Sometimes they are given too late. Perhaps the honorary awards should be reconsidered”
Sometimes these types of prizes are awarded too late. Just look at what happened at the last Goya Awards. The director Carlos Saura died together before being able to receive the tribute from the Academy, a pity. “Sometimes they are given too late. Perhaps the honorary awards should be reconsidered. I remember that they gave it to Chicho Ibáñez Serrador when the poor man was already in a wheelchair. It is not our case. For now we are fresh as roses, “says Sans.
The distinction recognizes the value of Carles Sans, Paco Mir and Joan Gràcia “as directors, authors, actors and producers”
The Max of Honor recognizes the worth of the three members of the group “as directors, authors, actors and producers” and is les awards the prize for “his splendid and prolific career, full of successes, until reaching a prominent place in the history of performing arts; for creating its own scenic language and seal, of a universal nature; for his mastery and genius in the art of mime, and for ennobling and embodying both comedy and gestural theater, and making millions of viewers around the world laugh.”
“We have always had the feeling of being out of place”
Throughout his career, Tricicle has always had the most important award: the one from the public. His connection with viewers has been brutal. But in the profession, despite having admirers, they never achieved much official recognition. They were slow to arrive. “We have always had the feeling of being out of place. Those of the theater did not see us as treatreros, they said that we mimed, those of the mime told us that ours was not mime, those of the clown did not see us as equals either. And when we made movies, they saw us as theaters. We’ve never fit in.” It is what creating a different humor code that incorporated diverse elements and had a unique seal has to do.
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The first great institutional recognition was received in 2010 with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture. In 2020, the National Culture Award in Catalonia “after 40 years in the commercial theater league and without the doping of subsidies”Paco Mir pointed out in his thank you speech. Despite being Catalan, Catalonia has always been behind Madrid in the recognition of their work.
But the first prize they got was at home. “It was an honorable mention at the Sitges Theater Festival. And that we got there at the last moment without appearing in any program or anything with ‘Manicòmic’. The Circ Cric left us their tent. Since nobody knew us or knew that We were there, we announced ourselves with parades along the beach. And, as the jury was in a theater very close to where we were performing, we went before the show began to tell them that when the show ended they would come see us, we were next door. And! They did it! That’s why we freaked out when they gave us that mention. It meant a lot.”