Dei Furbi company was founded by Gemma Beltran in the year 2002. Since then she has created and staged nine shows with the company.
The first show Scherzo premiéred in 2002 at festival Grec had very warm welcome from critics and audience and was the start of a solid artistic career. In the same lines of collective creation and Commedia dell’Arte the company prémiered and tours with Divertimento in 2003 and Tocata i Fuga in 2005. In 2006 Dei Furbi for the first time does an adaptation of Pierre de Marivaux’s The island of slaves.
In 2008 Dei Furbi comes back with a collective creation proposal Hombres de Shakespeare for which Gemma Beltran gains the 3rd Award for the best director in the 13th Editon of Certamen Nacional de Directoras de Teatro de Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid 2010). This show, still on tour, did two seasons in Barcelona and a tour in Catalunya and Spain.
At the end of 2009 the company prémieres Asufre at Teatre Tantarantana, it will then do a second season at Teatre Capitol in la Rambla and still a third one at Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya. For this creation Gemma Beltran was awarded the 1st Prize for the best direction in the 14th Editon of Certamen Nacional de Directoras de Teatro de Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid 2011).
In 2013 the company premieres La Flauta Màgica – Variacions Dei Furbi, an a cappella version of Mozart’s opera that has been touring in Spain and internationally with great success. The show received the Max Award 2014 to the best musical show. It also received the Audience Award 2015 at Mostra Internacional de Teatro Cómico e Festivo de Cangas, the Guineueta Award 2014 to the best professional show at Teatre Zorrilla in Badalona and the Butaca Award 2013 for Toni Vinyals to the best musical theatre actor.
In 2014/15 Dei Furbi premieres Trilogia MozArt –Così fan Dei Furbi, another a cappella version of Mozart’s and Da Ponte trilogy. The show has toured successfully in Spain and abroad.
In 2017 the company premieres Oklahoma - Gemma Beltran / Dei Furbi. At the Teatre Lliure - Espai Lliure - A co-production of the Grec 2017 Festival of Barcelona, the Dei Furbi Company and the Teatro Libero in Palermo. In collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat. Company in residence at the Akademia i Fabra i Coats Theater - Fàbrica de Creació
From it’s beginnings Dei Furbi company creates from a perspective of a theatrical practice based on seeing the actor as the centre of the dramatic action and the research into a poetical, lyrical and visual performing arts language always spiced up with a good dose of humour.
The company shows a special interest in the creative process and the artistic resarch.
A type of theatre that needs a practice based on efficiency and on training and that produces a storytelling that is build and modified at the same time that it is formalized as a show.
The company’s highlights are the vitality, energy
and rhythm in the use of a wide variety of performing arts resources. It’s
career is based in based on revisiting, actualizing and often perverting the
universal themes, with a deliberately humoristic and at the same time sensitive
language
From its beginnings Dei Furbi’s style full of humor and accuracy has connected with critics and audiences.
Awards of DEI FURBI company
Audience Award in the Mostra Internacional de Teatro Cómico e Festivo de Cangas, 2015
MAX Award 2014 (Main Spanish Performing Arts Award) to the Best Musical Show for the show La Flauta Màgica
Guineueta Award 2014 to the best theatre show in Teatre Zorrilla (Badalona) for the show La Flauta Màgica
Butaca Award 2013 to the best musical actor for the show La Flauta Màgica for the actor Toni Vinyals
1st Prize for the best direction for Asufre! in the 14th Editon of Certamen Nacional de Directoras de Teatro de Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid 2011)
3rd Award for the best director for Homes de Shakespeare in the 13th Editon of Certamen Nacional de Directoras de Teatro de Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid 2010)
